Re: [RML] RE: The hubbub

Roy Hunter (roy at angfa.org)
Fri, 3 Oct 1997 07:35:33 -0600

I would avoid the fish Tom, I have seen it and I didn't like what I saw. It
is a cross with parkinsoni and something else.

Cheers

Roy Hunter
Co-Chairman
ANGFA of North America
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> From: Tom Mroz <tmroz at art-inc.com>
> To: 'rainbowfish at pcug.org.au'
> Subject: [RML] RE: The hubbub
> Date: Thursday, October 02, 1997 9:56 AM
>
> Seems to me that if everyone asking questions about why there is no
rainbow
> talk had asked a rainbow question or made a rainbow observation, the
issue
> of [SPAM] would be moot.
>
> So, let me try to help with a small question I have had for some time.
>
> Anybody know for sure what M. "marci" is? They show up in stores around
> here and look like a hormone-treated M. parkinsoni. Store people I have
> asked have given various answers including the parkinsoni comment. I
also
> note that ALL of the fish come in with color, which means either they are

> all males (finnage suggests they are, in fact), or that they are indeed
> hormone-treated.
>
> If they are parkinsoni, are they pure strain? Can they/should they be
> spawned with "normal" parkinsoni females? Are they fertile? Anybody
come
> accross spawnable, fertile females listed as Marci?
>
> An other thoughts/observations on this topic?
>
> Tom