Re: [RML] species maintenance

Bruce Hansen (bhansen at ozemail.com.au)
Sat, 24 Jan 1998 18:39:31 +1000

Mach

Perhaps he will sell some eggs to a responsible breeder over there. The
fish may have been self-collected and represent more than money to him.

But I too have heard vi a friend that Heiko tried to collect some more wild
stock and could only come up with a few large males.

Regards,
Bruce.

Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.

Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm

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> From: Mach T. Fukada <fukada at hawaii.edu>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] species maintenance
> Date: Saturday, 24 January 1998 11:33
> I have been told that there is a person here in honolulu with a pair of
the
> original G. wanamensis from the wild. He does not breed them nor will he
> sell them. I have also been told that this species may have gone extinct
> in the wild as only a very few large males have been found recently in
> native habitat. Biggest problem is we can't expect to go back and bring
in
> more to the hobby. In some places the unstable socio-political
enviornment
> may cause the destruction of the native ecosystems that these species
> depend on for survival. most of the PNG/Irian speciese may no longer
exist
> as we knew them, due to habitat destruction or we will never be able to
> collect them.
>