Re: [RML] RML: "help" ?
Gary Lange (gwlange at mindspring.com)
Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:27:12 -0500
The Red Boesemani - wholesalers have to make up a name, they chose red
boesemani. It doesn't have any boesman in it and I'm 99% sure that it
doesn't have any Tri in it either. I'm pretty sure I know what's in them
but I'm not saying. Don't want to set off another greedy b*stard on
producing crosses. Several crosses are fertile, but I've been told by
someone who tried very hard to breed these that they are all infertile, at
least to each other. If they are fertile to their original species then
this is a good way of messing up the parent species. They do have incisus
in them so they do have a temper and will often take over a display tank.
Pretty they are but they often become problems. I had some "turned off"
pictures of this fish but I can't find them, sorry. They really are quite
different from running creek trifasciata so I'm not sure where that ID
problem came from but the pics on santafefish.com could be better. I really
prefer that we kill the cross-breeders instead of the fish though :-) You
can try to keep a clean name on them but once a cross breed is out there
it's hard to stop it, especially if a Florida fish farm is putting out
thousands of them. sic, you can't uncross the cross so leave it alone. For
those in the US with known crosses that you'd like to record, you can send
them to me and I'll photograph them and put them in the hall of shame.
Hopefully in the near future we'll get the site renewed and updated. Stay
tuned.
Gary Lange
gwlange at mindspring.com
<snip>
>> I'm still scratching my head as to how incisus/trifasciata look like a
>> Boesemani
>> as in original post.???????
>
>The fish pictured in the previous posts
>(http://home.earthlink.net/~sbuckel/red_boesemani.JPEG) is
>identical to the fish I have. The trifasciata trait is there and the
>brilliant red can only come from incisus. The boesemani name is
>attached to anything as its the rainbow we all know. My lacustris
>were bought as blue boesmani (as it was advertised on the dealers
>lists).
>
>> 4cm ~~ Glossolepis incisus X Melanotaenia boesemani ~~~~~~ Red Blue
>> Rainbow (sterile crossbreed)
>
>Sure fine, but the fish I saw had a black lateral stripe which did not come
> from iether of the above parents. Then again if you cross fish you never
>know what you will get.
>
>Bye
>
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