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Originally Posted by ziggy222  i found scooter blennies in walnut creek and elk creek going into lake erie mixed in with schools of sculpins.sculpins or muddler minnows are native here but the scooters are saltwater and not from here.the only difference is sculpins don't have a foot and scooters do and are salt water.the ships dump water from the sea into lake erie every day.the scooters eventually adjusted to the fresh water and reproduced.i've been wondering for quite a while if i could catch some and get them to adjust back to salt water. |
i find this extreemly hard to believe about the sw converting to fw in the time it would take the water to desalinize from beeing dumped into the lake
i could possibly believe it if the lake or rivers leading to it were remotly brackish but they arent
there are fish in our greatlakes that look like an over grown skooter blenny but they are known as mud daubers and actualy a nuicence non native fish that someone introduced