Re: [RML] Melanotaenia maylandi Not

Bruce Hansen (bhansen at ozemail.com.au)
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 07:32:09 +1000

As an interested bystander from a country where these new species only
arrive by "chance" it is a bit sad to see all this talk of
commercial-but-abhorrent crossbreeds doing the rounds over there. I hope
you guys get a chance to publish some kind of warning sheet for thge unwary
- only trouble is it costs money to produce such a publication.Perhaps FAMA
of TFH etc may be interested? Or perhaps not - they probably would be
afraid of upsetting a commercial interest who then may withdraw some
advertsing dollars :-(

Bruce Hansen

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> From: Gary Lange <gwlange at stlnet.com>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Melanotaenia maylandi Not
> Date: Monday, 10 March 1997 4:38
>
> Jerry Allen took a good natured jab at Heiko at either the 1989 ICC
> conference or the 1993 ANGFA Townsville conference. He showed a
> picture of M. maylandi and said, Heiko had a chance to get this fish
> and he passed up on it, I just don't know why. I could have sworn
> that he had even a better picture than the one that is displayed in
> the Tetra book (pg 125). Unless some other European explorer has
> more complete information we can assume that it's another one of
> those wonderful crosses.