Both hybridized and bad quality fish. When you don't know what to look for
it's easy to say oh that's boesemani even though it has a nice light blue (read
lacustris color) cast. Many of the herbertaxelrodis have a distinctive heavy
red stripe below the caudal that is a result of crossing with the affinis
pagwi. Also lots of the fish that they call the royal rainbow or call in the
trade the Red Boesemani which is some sort of incisus cross. And you can
almost guarantee that when you see something labeled "goyder river" trifasciata
it isn't. If you want lousy bows then the pet stores are your best bet. As
far as members go I think I signed up 5-6 when I was out there, I think that
your editor was one of them. I don't really have a way that I can cross
reference which club they belong to and unless they are from "brooklyn" NY I
have no way of knowing which of our many NY members are actually from the same
area. Bet that you're the only over 21 year old on the list that doesn't own a
car/truck or other form of personal transportation. Surving in the asphalt
jungle.....
> 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