It's not that I wouldn't love to trade fish if I had more to trade. I've
only really been doing rainbows with the intent to breed for a little over a
year, then I had to wait until the fish grew up. I finally was able to start
spawning mine this spring. I breed a lot of other fish too so I can't be
constantly trying to produce rainbows but I have gotten a few fish for my
efforts and I'm hoping to be able to work more on getting some to trade.
I've so far produced a measly 7 wanams, I had a batch of Giddy tris, but
accidently killed them off on a water change. I had a great batch of tri
eggs this week, put them in a tank to hatch, checked the next day and found
myself with a huge batch of planeria instead. EEK! :) I did get my praecox
to spawn too, but only have 4 more females from that effort. Those are the
only 3 types of bows I have that can spawn. I have 2 ramuensis but I don't
know if they are male and female yet as they are still pretty young.
Basically what I'm saying is I'd trade fish if I had them to trade, I'm
working on it as best as I can. Quite honestly it's not always easy for some
of us to come up with the cash to buy some fish. I do almost all my fish
keeping from trading with stores and other keepers, and the small amount I
earn from making web pages. It's expensive to keep 50 tanks running.
I'm trying to say, I'm sure there are a number of us who would love to be
trading rainbows if we had something to offer. Now if anyone ever wants to
trade fish for plants, that's something I generally have an abundance of.
When I get fish I do everything in my power to try to breed them. Also even
when I get extra Giddy tris, praecox and wanams, will anyone want them?
Rhonda
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, "chris drew" <seegeedrew at hotmail.com> wrote:
>So Roy boy are these fish "out there" or not?! I was hoping to get
>people
>a little more involved here by actively trading. Besides you and I there
>are only 4 or 5 other people who even offer fish or eggs for trade etc.
>
>There are 100= people in ANGFA NA and 300+ in the RSG. So the people
>that are trading and selling represents about 2.5% of the membership.
>Can't we do better than that? I think we'll have to, if we want any
>significant
>portion of the species we currently have to be around in two or three
>years.
>
>That being the case it is vitally important that the folks who are doing
>the breeding and trading etc
>get the new species into their hands. I think it would be of great
>benefit to
>ANGFA NA and the RSG to subsidize these people. Afterall you can't
>expect
>everyone to be like Roy and trip off to OZ every year. And Roy has to
>pay for all that out of his pocket. And no one can afford to buy ALL the
>things
>that are available. But no one besides this small circle is breeding and
>distributing the
>fish. Perhaps ANGFA and the RSG could mass purchase the fish and
>put them in the breeders hands who in turn could produce and distribute
>the fish at a lower price to the rest of the membership.
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