So Jen, Where are the fish pictures from the trip? (Enough of old guys in hats!)

I'm more likely to quarantine animals than plants, but it's probably a good idea to quarantine both. Most of the plants I bring home are tough enough to handle chlorine, so I put them in a bucket of warm tap water over night, without adding dechlorinator. My theory is that anything they're harboring...

OK. Lots of redbreast sunfish, Lepomis auritus http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/redbreastsun.html (The ones we caught were babies, and didn't have their color yet) A couple of baby largemouth bass http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/largemouth.html A baby crappie http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/fam...

I'll bring a dipnet, a seine, a fishing rod, and a field photo tank and see what's what when I get there.

If anyone is interested in fish, too, here's the link to buy an on-line license:

http://secure01.virginiainteractive.org/horf/

The glass shrimp in the east coast black water swamps should do really well. They're all over the eastern shore.

Keep a tight cover on their tank.

Do the shrimp I keep in the freezer count?

Thanks for posting those, Kris. The bluespot in your photo is more turquoise than the bluespots I've seen from other locations. The interesting thing about sunnies is that there are subtle differences in color among the different populations.

Beware the GWAPAgator!

Wow, Jeff. That has never been my experience with them at all. Although I could see the males fighting and doing one another in. Like I said, though, they're tough fish and need tank mates that are a little on the scrappy side.