As a Sahul Fish Dealer I would sell 10 pairs m/f of Rainbows to every single
display fish
In Adelaide at least most buy to try to breed.
Because as with 99% of the worlds dealers the fish are plain in the shops so
its really only people who know the fish that buy them which are majority
breeders
even our display tanks which hold spectacular colour, customers cant or wont
understand that the fish in the bare tank next to it are the same species
and because they dont have the colour they dont purchase or they want us to
destroy our display because the fish in it have better colour.
Danny Walker
SANFA http://www.sanfa.org.au/
ANGFA http://www.angfa.org.au/
ANGFA QLD http://www.angfaqld.org.au
Aggies Aquariums Serving Adelaides Native Fish &
Amphibians Needs
(08) 8359 - 7099 ph/fax
0416-226-512 mob/SMS
reklaw01 at bigpond.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Boulet Stephen-CSB046 <Stephen.Boulet at motorola.com>
To: 'rainbowfish at pcug.org.au' <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Thursday, 7 June 2001 0:25
Subject: RE: [RML] RML: "help" ?
>> >>I know one person said destroy them but don't do that. Put them in
>> a display tank and just admire their beauty. I've never seen any
>> females of these fish.
>>
>> With approx 100 species and possibly 100's of colour morphs
>> naturally, Why
>> would anyone want to hybridise them?
>> if two crosses look like one species and are sterile.
>> wouldn't it be better
>> to keep the natural type form thats able to BREED.
>
>Yes, but what percentage of rainbowfish keepers actually breed their fish?
>
>The people on this list are not like most people with rainbowfish in tanks.
>
>As a matter of fact, the people on this list are not like most people,
period. ;)
>
>-- Stephen
>