>Tom,
>
>if you want to keep the M. "marci", because you like them, please do so
and enjoy the fish. If you want to
>breed them (what isn't possible with all hybrids but surely with some -
who talked about the German
>saying all hybrids were infertile? :-)), breed them. But what shouldn't
happen and what happens at present
>is that the hybrids are sold as pure species with scientific names. This
is fraud in the legal sense.
>You also wouldn't sell red platies as "Xiphophorus maculatus" but just as
a red platy. Hybrid rainbows
>must not be sold unter scientific names. If they are sold as let's say
"Red Baron Rainbowfish" as happened,
>nothing against (from my point of view, I know, the purists among the list
members have other opinions).
>And I only can asure you as the other list members did - the marcis are
hybrids!!
>
>Harro
>
>