Roy Hunter
Co-Chairman
ANGFA of North America
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> From: Bruce Hansen <bhansen at ozemail.com.au>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Project
> Date: Friday, February 21, 1997 2:26 PM
>
> Well John has just taken on the "easy"one ;-)
>
> Besides the 20 on the ANGFA Trifasciata poster there have been added the
> following in the last 12 months or so
>
> Gap Creek
> Bloomfield System
> Olive River
> (these 3 from streams flowing east in Cape York)
>
> Web Creek
> Crystal Springs
> Yirkala
> (these 3 in Arnhem Land over towards the Gove Peninsula)
>
> Bruce Hansen
> ANGFA
>
> email: bhansen at ozemail.com.au
> Don't miss the ANGFA web pages at -
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
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> From: John Dowden <ejdowden at mindspring.com>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Project
> Date: Friday, 21 February 1997 16:08
>
> I agree with Roy, a project would be fun and a good way for all of us to
> work together towards a common goal. I bet that combined we all have
> enough
> knowledge and experience with rainbows to write several books on the
> subject.
>
> Ok, I am going to take first crack at an article in an attempt to "shut
> rooster up for a month". ;) I am fascinated with the fact that the same
> bow
> from two different waterways can have totally different colors. I am
going
> to try and compile a list of M. Trifasciatas. In this list I want to
> describe their colors, the waterway name and location, and if possible
the
> water conditions. I think that I have a pretty good list started, but
> please send me some data either about your Tris or Tris that you know
about
> so I can compare/add to my list.
>
> My private E-Mail address is: ejdowden at mindspring.com
>
> Thanks in advance for you help... ;-) If we work as a team there is
> nothing
> that we can't accomplish.
>
> John
>
>
> At 05:50 PM 2/20/97 -0700, Roy wrote:
> >With All this crap from Gordon we kinda got out of the swing.. What do
you
> >say we work on a project or something :-) I dunno maybe we could try to
> >come up with a list of every known Rainbowfish held in captivity and
maybe
> >give them a category from rare to common. We can use this for things
like
> >the project of Cary's or the international species maintenance we
> discussed
> >earlier. I will be happy to compile the list and put the info on the
net.
> >Maybe people will see what is rare and make an effort to get and breed
the
> >fish and help the less common fish become more readily available.We can
> >also add to each fish the info on where it was collected, who collected
> the
> >fish and when they were collected also any water data. This is a simple
> >thing we can do if we work together and could be quite effective with
all
> >the minds we have here in the collective.
> >
> >So what do you all think? If this is a bad Idea then think of something
> >else productive. Another thing that needs to be done is to bring the
> Fishes
> >of Sahul Index up to date. Pick an issue and index it, send me the Info
> and
> >I will update it on the net. We can send our info to Chettle for the
next
> >printing of the index.
> >
> >I think it would be a lot of fun for us all to work together on a
project
> >that would be another chapter in the book of rainbowfish info.
> >
> >We also need to write articles for the Fishes of Sahul, ANGFA Bulletin,
> and
> >the ANGFA of north America bulletin :-) This is an easy one, it took me
5
> >hours to write the article that will be published in a national fish
> >magazine and it was 3,200 words! I think all of you can spend 1 hour of
> >your time to write an article. If everyone did this Adrian, Scott And
Ron
> >would have enough articles to last them quite a long time. Hell half of
> >the messages sent to this list are long enough for an article in the
> >bulletins, if you have time to do that, you have time for a small
article.
> >At the end of this year, before we print the next ANGFA of North America
> >bulletin for 98, the person who writes the best article for the ANGFA of
> >North America Bulletin for the year gets their next years membership
paid
> >for by me, out of my own pocket. I will even go one better, if the total
> >articles received in a month for the three publications is 25 or more I
> >will not post any BS e-mail for a whole month. That has got to be the
best
> >deal of the year!!! So if you want me quit then shut me up.
> >
> >Roy Hunter
> >Co-Chairman
> >ANGFA of North America
> >visit our website at:
> >http://208.135.166.41
> >
>
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> ANGFA NA E-Mail: ejdowden at mindspring.com
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