I am sure there will be more good fish to be had in that area in the near
future as well...... As far as I know shipments leave Australia every
couple of months or so...
I was very sorry to hear Gary was not going to attend this years confrence.
I hope you feel better soon Gary.
Roy Hunter
At 09:59 17/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>> From: Piabinha at aol.com
>> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
>> Subject: Re: [RML] auratus?
>> Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 5:40 PM
>>
>> In a message dated 10/13/1998 6:11:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> gwlange at stlnet.com writes:
>>
>
>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.....
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>> 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
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