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Subject:Re: WasserBoxer fish farm (F)
From:ed
Date:Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:50:52 -0500

Do Vanagon-bred salmon return to the cooling system in which they were born?

All you folks who bought Vanagons from the Pac Northwest better get them back
in time for spawning season.

ed "building a fish ladder on my rear bumper" devinney

Doktor Tim wrote:

> At 10:32 AM 02/18/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hey Todd,
> >
> >     This is interesting ---- what types of South American fish do best in
> >the Wasserboxer cooling system? Do they prefer ethylene or propolene based
> >coolant (phosphate-free is a given, of course) or should I stick to the
> >Autobahn blue??? Can you see them at the expansion tank..........  : )
> >
>
> Salmon will prefer pure mountain glacial runoff only. They wonder the whole
> system until the water picks up enough metalic salts which prompts them to
> return to the tank to breed. When you see them cavorting in the tank, it's
> time to service the system. The most difficult aspect of the service
> procedure is casting the fly through the tank fill hole to reap the harvest
> prior to draining.
> T.P. Stephens aka Doktor Tim
> San Juan Island, WA