The first group of Boes. to come into the US showed up early in 1984.
Charley got his fish from Dave Cook, don't know where he got them
from but I do know it was too early for them to have any "strange"
blood in them. They had a much darker orange to them and not as dark
of a blue. This was much more apparent if they were put outdoors
(like parkinsoni) but could easily be seen in adults raised indoors.
These ultimately had to have come in thru Heiko as there really
wasn't any Aussie connections at that time. My understanding is that
after this, Heiko went back and collected some more. Offspring of
this group ended up in Ekkwill's first batch. I think they started
showing up on the market about 1986. The early ones really had a
nice dark (almost black) blue in the front half of the fish. Those
of us that had both of them recognized the difference and kept them
separate. "Batch one" for the first group and "Ekkwill strain" for
the second group. Since I haven't sampled Ekkwill's boes for quite
some time I don't know if they are still up to standards. So many of
the boesemanis floating around in the US are incredibly bad, they
hardly resemble the original fish.
Gary Lange
Rainbowfish Study Group of North America
----------
> From: SBuckel at aol.com
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] RML: "red bosmani" ?
> Date: Thursday, February 20, 1997 12:21 AM
>
> Mach,
> I'm not sure what fish you are seeing, but several years ago a
friend,
> Charley Grimes, was visiting some fish farms in Florida. He
noticed that the
> fish grown in outdoor ponds were more red than he had ever seen.
He also has
> a strain that he has been keeping for many years that is more red
than
> orange. So, what your seeing may be related to these fish.
>
> Scott