No, that story is not true although not many specimens survived. However,
enough survived to be bred by Barry Crockford, Neil Armstrong & Ron Bowman
in Melbourne, Australia. Unless you can trace your fish back to this source
then I would considered them suspect, unfortunately.
I would also consider all G.Multisquamatus as suspect as well unless you can
trace them back to Heiko's collection of a few years ago.
The problem with these fish in Australia is that somewhere down the line
female multisquamatus got inbred into the species and I wouldn't be
surprised if female wanamensis were bred back into multisquamatus. (there
was even doubt on the original multisquamatus that were in circulation)
As for the specimens in the States, I'm unable to comment but I would like
to see a pedigree certificate with every breeder who had bred the fish
before I would accept them as a pure strain :-(
Adrian.
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Adrian R. Tappin
Home of the Rainbowfish
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
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