Gee Gary and all this time I thought it was the anal. You are so smart. :-)
Roy Hunter
Co-Chairman
ANGFA of North America
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> From: Gary Lange <gwlange at stlnet.com>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Looking for G. wanamensis
> Date: Friday, February 21, 1997 5:15 PM
>
> I'd like to make a few comments and add to what Adrian has already
> said. When going back and looking at the photos that were published
> in ANGFA NONE, I repeat NONE of the multisquamatus that have made it
> here looked anything like the photo. I've probably had people send
> me a 1/2 dozen fish they were sure were multisquamatus. Jerry didn't
> help with that juve photo in Rainbowfishes of Oz & NG (allen &
> cross). The photo in the Tetra book (pg 94) still doesn't look as
> good as the one that ANGFA published. Unless that one was a cross
> :-) all of the other stuff I've seen here is just either a splendida
> cross or a wanamensis cross. Guys, this would be a great photo to
> pull out of the FOS and post on a web site to let people know what
> the fish should look like. I think we should probably start of "wall
> of shame" too dedicated to all of the crap crosses. Maybe that way
> people couldn't keep getting fooled. Wished I had bothered to
> photograph all of that junk I've been sent over the years!
>
> Ekkwill supposedly got Heiko's multi's but they almost immediately
> got them mixed up with their wanamensis. Now when you see petstore
> wanamensis from Ekkwill they are nicely green but with the
> short-fins. Good wanas have a neat little blue patch at the caudal
> peduncle (tail fin Roy). In good colors they have just a tad of
> orangish in the belly (below lateral line and behind pectorals).
> There are good wanamensis in the US but you have to know where to
> look to get the correct ones. We have many that match the photos
> that were produced by ANGFA - actually the only Ron Bowman shot
> (until recently) that appeared in FOS.
>
> Gary Lange
> Rainbowfish Study Group of North America
>
>
> <snip>
> > 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.
> > ........................................
> > Adrian R. Tappin
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> >