Re: [RML] Looking for bright Rainbows

Bruce Hansen (bhansen at ozemail.com.au)
Thu, 23 Oct 1997 07:14:54 +1000

> From: Mach Fukada <tuhoitc at aloha.net>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Looking for bright Rainbows
> Date: Wednesday, 22 October 1997 13:05
>
> Hi Bruce,
> Nice to see you back on the list Derek Onishi said "hi" and that
> you guys took him through hell and back on his visit to OZ last time.

We nicknamed Derek the 'Hibiscus kid" and his main unachieved goal on that
trip was to hear the dawn chorus of the Australian bush birds - mainly
because he never got up early enough ;-)

If I remember correctly he did suffer a couple of major "scares" - one from
the Weipa women and one from a high speed departure from what passes as a
road up on Cape York. You'll have to ask him which was the most scary ;-)

> We don't have years of experiance, or even in
> some cases good color photos. I will be getting the Atlas, but as far as
> Sahul fishes go it sucks. Some of us don't have access to older good
> photos. I also suspect some of us newbies haven't even seen a wild
caught
> fish, F1, yes, but not wild in all their glory. Allong these lines I am
> still willing to see about setting up a web page for Pseudomugils as long
> as I can get the picts and info. This way more of us can have access
to
> the "good" photos especially for those fish that have several distinct
> populations (signifer, gertrudae, etc).

That's why ANGFA has put so many resources into our publications -
especially the posters (have you seen the one on pseudomugils ?) and our
journal "Fishes of Sahul"

A web page for Blue-eyes would be great but getting good shots of all the
species is going to be difficult - if you wish to use the images from our
poster
then please direct a request to the ANGFA national committe through me. We
usually approve non-profit promotional requests but we have to protect the
inerests of our generous photographers.

Cheeers

Bruce