Gary
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> From: Roy Hunter <rainbows01 at sprynet.com>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] oxyeleotris
> Date: Tuesday, January 28, 1997 11:29 PM
>
> Any fish found outside Sahul may as well be a guppy for all I care!
;-P
>
> Well ok Congo tetras and clown loaches are the exception to the
rule, well
> botias and synodontis are ok too!
>
> Good books are hard to find and when you find them they are not
very
> cheap.. But I am slowly working on it.
>
> Thanks Cary!
>
> Roy Hunter
> Co-Chairman
> ANGFA of North America
> visit our website at:
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/royhunter
>
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> From: Cary Hostrawser <caryho at ix.netcom.com>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] oxyeleotris
> Date: Tuesday, January 28, 1997 6:06 PM
>
> In The Dawn of the Third Age "Roy Hunter" <rainbows01 at sprynet.com>
> woke me from my contemplation by writing:
>
> >Ok fish heads I have someone wanting info on an Oxyeleotris
Marmoratus. I
> >cant even find the fish. I am not even sure Oxyeleotris are from
NG as I
> >have no books that list this fish and I have not seen it in any OZ
fish
> >book nor the FOS. So this is what the list is for.... Bruce should
be able
> >to answer this blindfolded providing he isnt chewing on a piece of
gum...
> >:-). This person says he has the fish and he is in the US.... Has
the
> >species A been described? If this is a real fish how in the heck
did it
> >come into the hobby??
>
> Its a big sleeper gobie regularly seen in the US trade. Its not
from
> Australia or NG but found throughout South East Asia, and many of
the
> Asian islands. They get fairly large and generally have quite an
> appetite for the other fish in the tank. I traded one back to a
fish
> store and Vietnamese couple that new the owner got quite excited.
It
> seems this was a very good eating fish back home. They explained
this
> to the owner who agreed they could take it, if they invited him to
> dinner. I wasn't really too happy to hear this, as I had raised it
> from a 1.5 inch baby to a 16 monster. But there isn't much of a
market
> for monster fish like he was, plus he was already the shop owners
> property at them by then.
> If you had any books, besides books on Sahul fish, you should be
able
> to look this species up ;~)
>
> Cary Hostrawser
>
> Minnesota Aquarium Society
> http://www.mn-aquarium.org/
>
> Rainbowfish Study Group of North America
> http://home.earthlink.net/~sbuckel/index.html
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