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.
>>have these fish! They are stunning! I also mistook them for
trifasciata but after a while you can tell the difference. They are very
attractive as I said earlier... I was told they are a cross between
trifasciata and G. incisus. They certainly have the incisus face but
the Tri. body plan and black lateral stripe but at the end of the day
one can see they are neither.
I'm still scratching my head as to how incisus/trifasciata look like a
Boesemani
as in original post.???????
In our great land of OZ I have seen Hybrid Rainbowfish once on a wholesale
list in 15 years of Native fish trading which is on the current Bay Tropical
Fish Farm in QLD price list
4cm ~~ Glossolepis incisus X Melanotaenia boesemani ~~~~~~ Red Blue
Rainbow (sterile crossbreed)
$6 -$7 each W/S
But I dont know of one Dealer in Adelaide that would purchase them
knowingly as hybrids
another reason is only 4 shops use them (BTF) in South Aust and only one is
a Rainbow trader (Aggies)
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: Tyrone Genade <Tgenade at akad.sun.ac.za>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Wednesday, 6 June 2001 17:18
Subject: Re: [RML] RML: "help" ?
>On 6 Jul 2001, at 11:01, zhangyu wrote:
>
>> I have known the red_boesemani is a hybrid ,i want to know how to
distinguish it( on
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~sbuckel/red_boesemani.JPEG) from Melanotaenia
trifasciata,
>> Running Creek(on http://www.santafefish.com/m_trifrc.html ) .does the
red_boesemani can
>> change the color pattern according to different condition ? could you
give me some picture
>> that show the the color pattern red_boesemani in different condition .
very thank for
>> your help. zhangyu form china beijing.
>
>I have these fish! They are stunning! I also mistook them for
>trifasciata but after a while you can tell the difference. They are very
>attractive as I said earlier... I was told they are a cross between
>trifasciata and G. incisus. They certainly have the incisus face but
>the Tri. body plan and black lateral stripe but at the end of the day
>one can see they are niether.
>
>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.
>
>Bye
>
>
>Tyrone Genade
>tyronegenade at yahoo.com
>http://www.geocities.com/tyronegenade
>
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