Re: [RML] signing emails

Gary Lange (rainbowfish4u2 at yahoo.com)
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:03:14 -0800 (PST)

Eileen - eh :-)

We can see an "Eileen" in your email name so we have an idea of who we're dealing with. When one uses a moniker in the email name, then it's a little tougher to figure out who you're talking to. If everyone would just fill in their signature spot on your email sheet then it would be on all of your replies. Funny, I'm getting the problems Julie spoke of a few weeks ago. I'm seeing bits of Gunther's email in other people's replies but never saw his whole post. Kind of wierd. Saw some reference that it would cost him $1,000 to attend the conference? Surely gas can't be that expensive to drive in Europe :-)

There is a small aquarium club in Vermont, I think that Dave and Jeanine Banks still attend and do something with that club. They mainly work on getting the NEC workshop (Farmington, CT) together each spring. I fly in from St. Louis every year to attend, even when I'm not a speaker. It is the best workshop/lecture series in the US. This would certainly be worth your time and is a great learning experience. Good party too :-) If husband doesn't like fish bring a fish girlfriend and split the cost of a room.

Rarefish at lax is Kent Webster's friend Tanner. Kent is a breeder and essentially a rainbowfish wholesaler. He really doesn't want his wholesale people getting mad at him so Tanner does all of his on-line stuff for him. Tanner plucks the stuff directly out of Kent's tank so you aren't getting stuff second hand with the possibility of crosses. Kent if he's not selling yet, will be shortly selling wanamensis again. Kent writes most of the stuff up for Tanner for Aquabid so he gets it right. We've had several discussions about making his descriptions interesting and also informative. I think I wrote one of his earlier writeups, probably the zigzag (G. doryiti)or the millenium (pseudoincisus) but the rest is Kent, with a tad of my influence :-) Heck I read his writeups and start to bid on the stuff when I realize, "hey I've already got that"! Also a great many of his photos are mine that I shot of Kent's fish when I was out at the hatchery last February. I stood on a step stool
photographing fish one at a time in our phototank for something like 8 hours. I support Kent and friend as Kent is really the only breeder in the US that can supply the quality and the quanity of rainbowfish. The stuff in Florida and what gets imported is often a joke.

His Goo obos are only getting brighter and breeding even more fish with color. Some of the offspring are not very colorful and sort of revert back to the wild so if you buy six young fish from him be sure to select the brightest colored ones for breeding. He tells me that he has some newer pairs that even outrival the shots that are up on Aquabid at the moment. I think I would wait to get fish though until the spring as it gets pretty cold in Vermont in the winter. Good reason to keep fish, stay in and keep warm!

cheers,

Gary Lange

Eileen Kortright <eileen at spamcop.net> wrote:
At 08:45 AM 12/16/2005, you wrote:

Message: 1
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:35:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Gary Lange <rainbowfish4u2 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Goo obo gudgeon article / "sports" vs. "wild forms"

The comment was also meant for the fellow that hasn't identified himself yet "pair of icy fists". . . .
You know it suddenly dawned on me that I didn't introduce myself either. I'm surprised I didn't get put on the carpet for that :)
Lemme fix that, please:

My name's Eileen Kortright. Canadian from Ontario, but married a Yankee and am living in VA. I'm in my mid 40s. I'm more new than Gunther to aquaria; I just started in August of this year. I have 6 aquariums, with the largest being a 36g bowfront. Hrm, saw Boesemani for the first time and fell in love with them :) I bought a 36g bowfront and a school of 7 from my LFS. I seemed to have lucked out as mine are VERY colorful now and, I think, rather large. One of my females is around 3.25", males about 3", couple are 2.5, but not "orangey" yet. The bigger ones are now starting to exhibit spawning behavior and I'm very excited about that! I spend a lot of my time reading about rainbow fish. I just received Dr. Allen's Rainbowfishes book and 'm eagerly awaiting Harro's book that I ordered :)

I have on order 3x75g and 1x50g tanks that are due to arrive in two weeks. My Boesemani will go into one 75g and I want to better the school with the ones I see on Aquabid. I want to add some Goo obos to that tank as well, again same person on Aquabid or another site that sells them and I suspect that both of those people are the same guy. He writes a lot like Gary Lange :) Are those yours, Gary? Rarefishatlax?

The 2nd one will be for pseudoincisus, but I like the parva as well! The third I want to have as splendida dubulayi and possibly wanamensis, if I can find them, and peacock gudgeons. I did find some "Emerald Rainbowfish", but not sure if that's them or not. My smaller tanks will be stocked with blue-eyes.

I'd like to breed the rainbows -- no crossbreeds! -- too.

So, and I'm sure you can tell by the multitude of dumb questions I ask, I'm a real newbie here :)

Eileen
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