In the US you have problems of purposely hybridised fish In Australia its
condemned and we still get accidental
crosses from the Farms except for one who does cross them but never heard of
anyone buying them thank God.(not in our great state of South Australia
anyway)
>>>>the best two states in the world South Australia and pissed<<<<
Danny Walker
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Lange <gwlange at mindspring.com>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Friday, 8 June 2001 10:28
Subject: Re: [RML] RML: "help" ?
>The Red Boesemani - wholesalers have to make up a name, they chose red
>boesemani. It doesn't have any boesman in it and I'm 99% sure that it
>doesn't have any Tri in it either. I'm pretty sure I know what's in them
>but I'm not saying. Don't want to set off another greedy b*stard on
>producing crosses. Several crosses are fertile, but I've been told by
>someone who tried very hard to breed these that they are all infertile, at
>least to each other. If they are fertile to their original species then
>this is a good way of messing up the parent species. They do have incisus
>in them so they do have a temper and will often take over a display tank.
>Pretty they are but they often become problems. I had some "turned off"
>pictures of this fish but I can't find them, sorry. They really are quite
>different from running creek trifasciata so I'm not sure where that ID
>problem came from but the pics on santafefish.com could be better. I
really
>prefer that we kill the cross-breeders instead of the fish though :-) You
>can try to keep a clean name on them but once a cross breed is out there
>it's hard to stop it, especially if a Florida fish farm is putting out
>thousands of them. sic, you can't uncross the cross so leave it alone.
For
>those in the US with known crosses that you'd like to record, you can send
>them to me and I'll photograph them and put them in the hall of shame.
>Hopefully in the near future we'll get the site renewed and updated. Stay
>tuned.
>
>Gary Lange
>gwlange at mindspring.com
>
><snip>
>
>>> I'm still scratching my head as to how incisus/trifasciata look like a
>>> Boesemani
>>> as in original post.???????
>>
>>The fish pictured in the previous posts
>>(http://home.earthlink.net/~sbuckel/red_boesemani.JPEG) is
>>identical to the fish I have. The trifasciata trait is there and the
>>brilliant red can only come from incisus. The boesemani name is
>>attached to anything as its the rainbow we all know. My lacustris
>>were bought as blue boesmani (as it was advertised on the dealers
>>lists).
>>
>>> 4cm ~~ Glossolepis incisus X Melanotaenia boesemani ~~~~~~ Red Blue
>>> Rainbow (sterile crossbreed)
>>
>>Sure fine, but the fish I saw had a black lateral stripe which did not
come
>> from iether of the above parents. Then again if you cross fish you never
>>know what you will get.
>>
>>Bye
>>
>>Tyrone Genade
>>tyronegenade at yahoo.com
>>http://www.geocities.com/tyronegenade
>>
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>>of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love,
>>and to live in humble fellowship with our GOD."
>> Micah 6:8
>
