"However Gordon is in his sixties and has had brushes with heart disease and
cancer. He wants to retire and move closer to his Brisbane based children
and restore Mustangs. The dream is on the market at $575 000, including all
licenses and approvals"
where do you see cashing in on the Lungfish in that paragraph?????????
Danny Walker
SANFA http://www.sanfa.org.au/
ANGFA http://www.angfa.org.au/
Aggies Aquariums Serving Adelaides Native Fish Needs
(08) 8359 - 7099 ph/fax
reklaw01 at bigpond.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Holmes <dhdesign at onthenet.com.au>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Monday, 4 December 2000 23:23
Subject: Re: AW: [RML] Lungfish_Curse of the lungfish
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> From: Harro.Hieronimus at t-online.de (Harro Hieronimus)
> Reply-To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:11:11 +0100
> To: <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
> Subject: AW: [RML] Lungfish_Curse of the lungfish
>
> As far as I know somebody (very wellknown) wanted to sell the praecox on
the
> ANGFA conference for 20K AUD, but some European aquarists - the wellknown
> person sold the fish here some months before - brought eggs or fry and
gave
> them away for free or for little money.
>
> Regards Harro
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-rainbowfish at pcug.org.au [owner-rainbowfish at pcug.org.au]
im
> Auftrag von Gary Lange
> Gesendet am: Montag, 4. Dezember 2000 03:43
> An: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Betreff: Re: [RML] Lungfish_Curse of the lungfish
>
> Hmm Lionel Lambkin writes about breeding lungfish, then dies. Gordon
> produces <only> eggs and protracts cancer. Wonder if there isn't some
sort
> of aboriginal black magic going on here :-)
>
> In all seriousness.
>
> It's a shame that we don't have a way to post messages to this board
without
> knowing who the real author is. I'd love to loosen up the tongues and
hear
> who "got burned" on the Melanotaenia praecox thing. I heard that
"someone"
> brought in some of the fish (to Oz) and someone paid $10-20K for a
breeding
> group. Right after that they found that someone else brought them in and
> was breeding "the little guppies" like there was no tomorrow. Hmm was
> Gordon involved in that one too?? Anyone want to comment on this one or
> "what they heard"?
>
> I guess someone can get passionate even about a fish like the lungfish,
> Lionel certainly was. I just can't see anyone being so willing to give it
> all up that fast (like Gordon) if you were TRULY interested in the fish
> instead of the profit motive. Hey if there is something that you all in
> Brisbane can do to let the proper authorities know about this scam please
> give them a call. Maybe you can get this fish put in the hands of a
> responsible person. They are going to be even less willing to issue
permits
> if they think something like this is going to happen everytime.
>
> Gary Lange
> gwlange at STLNET.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PETER.UNMACK at ASU.Edu <PETER.UNMACK at ASU.Edu>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
> Date: Sunday, December 03, 2000 12:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [RML] Lungfish
>
>
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Bruce Hansen wrote:
>
>> I am still in a state of shock - 2 phone calls from Gordon Hides in one
>> week. He tells me he has bred his lungfish in captivity under controlled
>> conditions and he has put details on the web at www.lungfish-breeders.com
> if
>> anyone is interested.
>
> Yer, and you can buy the whole lot for 575K. I notice he only has eggs at
> this stage.....be more impressed when he gets them to 3 months.
>
> Tootles
> Peter
>
>
>