> Pitch 'em is the best advice, most of the stuff in the stores to quote the
NY
> baseball fan -"He's a bum" :-). Most of the stuff I saw in NY city was
> total crap.
gary, do you mean they are hybridized or bad quality fish? i have never seen
any hybrids in stores here in nyc. most of what you see around here are M.
splendida of various subspecies. you also see M. boesemani, G. incisus, M.
lacustris, M. macculocchi, M. praecox, and more rarely M. parkinsoni and M.
trifasciata.
>Take the time and go down to Rosario LaCorte's place in Jersey. He
> still has the nice reddish boesemani from the first shipment that hit the
> states in '84 and they still look like the originals, just like the
LaCorte
> tetras that he collected some 20 years ago. You keep pulling crap out of
> the sewer and then asking for it to be identified. Go buy the quality
material
> and then you won't have to wonder, you'll probably get it a lot cheaper too.
rosario's place is inaccessible for those of us, bipeds without cars. i have
traded fish with him in the past, when he came out to our meetings, he gave me
a pair of boesemani and i gave him a pair of apistos.
> You mentioned brooklynites so I'm guessing that you mean the Brooklyn
> Aquarium Society ... Nice group of aquarists with a broad range of
experience.
> They seemed to have mastered many of the
> other fish so with a little bit of training they shouldn't have too much
> difficulity mastering the bows. I would bet that some are doing quite
> nicely with the bows and they probably know their names too :-) I dropped
off
> quite a few eggs and some fish there about 2 years ago so if you querry the
better
> members I'll bet you'll still find some stock floating around in your BAP
> program. We also have a few members of the RSG in your group look them up
> and take a look at the fish & egg listing>
> cheers,
>
> Gary Lange
yup, guilty as charged. who in BAS is in RSG, gary? please let me know. i'm
not aware that any of our members are in RSG.
btw, i went over to the home of one of the people that bought the "auratus" (i
didn't get them). upon examination in the aquarium, they seemed to be
splendida, possibly inornata. i think "auratus" is just a bad "mispelling" of
inornata.
tsuh yang chen, nyc