Well ok Congo tetras and clown loaches are the exception to the rule, well
botias and synodontis are ok too!
Good books are hard to find and when you find them they are not very
cheap.. But I am slowly working on it.
Thanks Cary!
Roy Hunter
Co-Chairman
ANGFA of North America
visit our website at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/royhunter
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From: Cary Hostrawser <caryho at ix.netcom.com>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
Subject: Re: [RML] oxyeleotris
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 1997 6:06 PM
In The Dawn of the Third Age "Roy Hunter" <rainbows01 at sprynet.com>
woke me from my contemplation by writing:
>Ok fish heads I have someone wanting info on an Oxyeleotris Marmoratus. I
>cant even find the fish. I am not even sure Oxyeleotris are from NG as I
>have no books that list this fish and I have not seen it in any OZ fish
>book nor the FOS. So this is what the list is for.... Bruce should be able
>to answer this blindfolded providing he isnt chewing on a piece of gum...
>:-). This person says he has the fish and he is in the US.... Has the
>species A been described? If this is a real fish how in the heck did it
>come into the hobby??
Its a big sleeper gobie regularly seen in the US trade. Its not from
Australia or NG but found throughout South East Asia, and many of the
Asian islands. They get fairly large and generally have quite an
appetite for the other fish in the tank. I traded one back to a fish
store and Vietnamese couple that new the owner got quite excited. It
seems this was a very good eating fish back home. They explained this
to the owner who agreed they could take it, if they invited him to
dinner. I wasn't really too happy to hear this, as I had raised it
from a 1.5 inch baby to a 16 monster. But there isn't much of a market
for monster fish like he was, plus he was already the shop owners
property at them by then.
If you had any books, besides books on Sahul fish, you should be able
to look this species up ;~)
Cary Hostrawser
Minnesota Aquarium Society
http://www.mn-aquarium.org/
Rainbowfish Study Group of North America
http://home.earthlink.net/~sbuckel/index.html
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