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Guinea fowl (/ˈɡɪnifaʊl/) (or guineahen) are birds of the family Numididae in the order Galliformes. They are endemic to Africa and rank among the oldest of the gallinaceous birds. Phylogenetically, they branched off from the core Galliformes after the Cracidae (chachalacas, guans, and curassows) and before the Odontophoridae (New World quail).

Nothing exciting on my beach walk this morning.




I came back and made my wife her favorite breakfast. Home grown tomatoes on Guacamole with home grown parsley with bananas and local blueberries on Daves Killer Bread. (I generally don't eat this)

This Long Nose I have had a short while. Maybe 2 or 3 months, and because he is so small, I need to make sure he gets enough to eat because their mouth is so small. The normal food I feed every day is LRS food with some earthworms or chopped clams.

Small fish like this with such small mouths need tiny, soft foods. Small Copperbands have the same issues.
These juvenile fish should be fed a couple of times a day, which is why I am sure to feed at least a few live white worms every morning.

He eats more and faster than the rest of my fish, so it's no problem. Many people have problems with these types of fish because they either feed them the wrong things or don't feed them anything they can easily eat, like live worms.

I have had quite a few of these and copper bands over the years since the 70s, and I feel that is the problem with these. They are big feeders and, unfortunately, were designed with tiny mouths, so on the reefs, they need to constantly feed.

These are easy fish to keep; we just need to be able to meet their needs. Dry foods, pellets, and God Forbid, freeze-dried won't do it long term, even if they will eat such things, which most of them won't.

I love how they expand their fins to seem like their bigger to keep other fish away

Me too.

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I went fishing today with 2 friends. Between the 3 of us we caught about 70 porgies.



I also caught this "huge" shark. We almost had to get a bigger boat.

Love porgies!!!!

Shark fin soup anyone?

Diana, so do I. Between the 80 or so we caught last time and these I will be in porgies all winter. I have some people coming over Friday to help us eat them.

I will be doing a lot of cooking today.