But don't go asking Adrian to share his rfbe with you though. I believe that
fifty is about as small a population that anyone should have. This fish is a
schooling species and I believe some of Adrian's success is that he
maintained the adult population largely together.
And..
Please everyone don't get me wrong about captive breeding and species
maintenance. I think it is the single most valuable contribution to saving
fishes from extinction that aquarists can make, closely followed by
communication, co-operation and a large degree of concern. As I said before
something close to a wild type is unquestionably better than nothing at all.
-----Original Message-----
From: caryho at ix.netcom.com <caryho at ix.netcom.com>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Monday, 2 February 1998 15:28
Subject: Re: [RML] Red-finned Blue-eyes
>
>This is some of the best news I've heard in quite some time. Congrats
>on a job well done Adrian. I'm sorry to hear your oldest generation
>passed on, but 50 fry brings allot of hope. I'd like to read you
>succeeded with this species that everybody was about ready to write
>off in captivity not long ago. I was hoping I'd get some news if I
>through in that line about them. Next I'll probably hear they have
>100's in Europe now, and only us Americans failed in the task to keep
>them going.