While you are at it, you should ask him to send you a slide or two of his
fish room tanks -- incredible!! Peter and I were lucky enough to get a
showing of the presentation he gave to BAKA (?) last time he was in the US
(He stayed w/ us for a few days so Peter could show him around the desert
a bit.). If I could get just one of my tanks to look close to *any* of
his, I would be a happy fishkeeper... :)
Julie <><
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Hansen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Have you checked out Adrian Tappin's Home Page lately. I got a chance to
> have another look over the weekend and saw Wim's photo of Pseudomugil
> tenellus and I was stunned. They are the best-looking, most colourful
> Delicate Blue-eyes I have ever seen. The only ones that even came close
> were those that I found out at the Edward River on my first trip to Cape
> York. They were in drying out "melon holes" that were in essence a rich
> culture of tiny crustaceans.
>
> Those fish were a smoky golden colour with each scale edged in black and
> the fins complemented the colours and were highlighted with pale edges,
> also the "jewels along the lateral line shone brightly. I attributed these
> colours to the diet as they faded quickly in captivity and looked just like
> the"pictures in the books" :-(
>
> Adrian Tappin tells me Wim feeds a lot of live food such as Daphnia and
> keeps his fish happy with lots of plants in the tanks. All I can say is
> "Wim, your fish are an inspiration! Will you sell me or swap me some slides
> of your beautiful Blue-eyes?"
>
> I am supposed to show a few slides of Blue-eyes in San Francisco later in
> the year but I will have to throw away my slides of "tenellus" after seeing
> Wim's.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bruce
>
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