(snip)
>I agree Harro,
>
>Just as the Killie-keepers are valiantly maintaining their 30+ locality
>varieties of
>A. gardneri so we should be doing the same with our various forms of
>Rainbowfish.
>Hopefully there will not be a repeat of the Eacmamensis debacle but odds on
>there is likely to be many similar sad examples :-(
As time goes by there will be dozens of them, Bruce, mainly from NG I guess,
but we aren't much better here in Oz.
The only service that a generic "tri" or generic "splendida" (of unknown
provenance) can do in the long run is to provide an analogue species for
newcomers to breed - it has no other worth... They can only detract from the
serious business of keeping the real McCoy alive in captivity. I harp on
this message a fair bit, I guess, but I think it is true. Although my once
vast empire is reduced to a couple of tanks now, I'd never keep a fish I
wasn't sure wasn't a true example of it's type/locality. I'd rather not
keep fish at all than keep generic "silverfish".
Regards, Andrew
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there is, of value, that can be offered to posterity. And here is
a good deed, and there an act of courage: during this year one worthy
story was told, during that decade involvement in an important social
movement. If there are babies, that is logged in. If there are books,
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small animals. A hill bearing your name. But the laurels you've counted
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