>At 10:08 AM 1/19/97 +1100, you wrote:
>
>>Roy will no doubt take up your invitation <G> But he will probably write in
>>his version of AmeriKin Inglish ;)
>>
>
>Would that be called Roybonics??
ROFL
We had a discussion on this topic quite awhile back. Luckly we had
somebody to fill us in and warn us of a couple of false species to
watch out for. I had originally came across the name when somebody
sent it to me with the species check off list with RSG. I hadn't heard
about this species so I posted a question if anybody had any info as
to its status.
I was able to pull the posting on the reported species used in this
cross from my saved archives (damn there's alot stuff in there).
Post from the past
>From wim.heemskerk at tip.nl Mon Aug 26 20:18:00 1996
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
Subject: A New Rainbow Species?
From: Wim Heemskerk <wim.heemskerk at tip.nl>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 96 21:18 MET DST
Om Mon, 26 Aug 1996 01:32 Scott wrote:
>Cary,
> A wholesaler here in Denver told me about this fish. He isn't sure about
>where it came from but the list he got said it was Marci's Rainbow.
> Unfortunately by the time I went to see it all of his specimens had been
>sold. He hopes to get them in again and hopefully I will get to see them.
> His source wouldn't tell him much - this transshipper has fish from
>Indonesia, Phillipines, and other such location so that really doesn't help
>very much. So when you get more info I would be interested.
>
>Scott
Scott those fishes were originally imported from Holland.
In fact that commercial breeder (his name is Hammer) introduced 3
"new" species M. marci
M. Hammerri and M. Greeti.
The three species are crosses, but I don't know which fish were
crossed.
He crossed M. boesemani with M. maccullochi and a M. trifasciata (at
least that's what he told) to "create" the marci.
I don't know what mixture he used to create the other species.
Regards, Wim
Cary Hostrawser
Minnesota Aquarium Society
http://www.mn-aquarium.org/
Rainbowfish Study Group of North America
http://home.earthlink.net/~sbuckel/index.html