-----Original Message-----
From: w.arndt at att.net [w.arndt at att.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:23 PM
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
Subject: RE: [RML] extremely frustrated
Hi, I'm a newbie to the list, but would be interested in
participating in any fish and egg exchange.
Could someone give us newer rainbowfish fans a little
background history about the RSG.
Bill A.
> Allen noted that the colors of his herbies were "much less radiant" in
his
> third and fourth generation fish. Even so they are still an awesome fish!
> My experience though is that they take about 18 months to come into full
> form but when they do it is worth the wait.
>
> Currently I only have juveniles and I want to make sure they are quality
> fish before I start spreading them around but I'm sure there are many old
> RSGrs on this list that would be willing to send you a mop. Fall provides
> optimum shiping temperatures.
>
> It is a shame that the RSG is not active. I have corresponded recently
with
> about a dozen past members and there seems to be some support to keeping
it
> alive. The last membership list I saw had about 400 names and I expect a
> good precentage of them are still wondering when the next Rainbow Times
will
> show up! Stephen has done a lot of work on the web site and I volunteered
> to do species maintenance/fish-egg list. There were a couple of other
> volunteers but no one that could pull it all together.
>
> If there are any old RSGrs (or any one else with an interest for that
> matter) that would be willing to participate in a fish-egg exchange or
that
> have rare or "pedigree" rainbows that would be willing to spread them
around
> please e-mail me off list. If the response is good I will try to set up
an
> on-line system and set some ground rules to standardize things a bit.
>
> My apologies to the non North Americans on the list for our use of the
> bandwidth ;)
>
> Lyndle Schenck lwschenck at earthlink.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane Graber
> To: 'rainbowfish at pcug.org.au'
> Sent: 9/4/01 4:53 PM
> Subject: RE: [RML] extremely frustrated
>
> Yes, what are the odds of starting up RSG-NA back up again? I'm
> certainly
> interested in it. :)
>
> Shane
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Kemker, PhD [bkemker at mailer.fsu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 4:34 PM
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: RE: [RML] extremely frustrated
>
>
> Thanks Lyndle-
> I'll start with Santa fe Tropicals and see where that takes me. IMHO,
> it's
> hard to find Herberts that look like the ones did back in the 80's. As
> for
> RSG-NA... I was a member up until the mid 90's or so. I let my
> membership
> lapse when I went off to graduate school. I was disappointed to see
> that it
> has stagnated. What are the odds of getting it up and running again?
> -Brett
>
>