We sent a lot of Emails but the ultimate limiting factor is still an
acceptable and agreed-on standard. Unfortunately most of us suffer from the
problem that we start with limited knowledge of the natural variation
within each population and our purchase ( or capture) of a very limited
number of specimens of a particular phenotype is our starting point.
These initial fish hopefully look "just like the pictures in the
book/poster/journal" so they are bred from continuously and the fry sold at
a 1 -2 inch size to all and sundry. For whatever reason the parent fish die
so some of the fry are kept and raised as replacements and surprise,
surprise when they grow up they look different to their parents. Then what
do we do?
I will be interested to hear from listmembers as to what they do at this
stage.
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: GWLANG at ccmail.monsanto.com
To: rainbowfish(a)pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Subject: Re: picture of Melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi
Date: Tuesday, 26 November 1996 1:16
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From: rainbowfish-owner at pcug.org.au at INTERNET
Date: 11/24/96 9:55PM
To: GARY W LANGE at MONSL701
*To: X:C=US/ A=MCI/ P=MONSANTO/ DD.RFC-822=rainbowfish at pcug.org.au at
MONCCMAU
Subject: Re: picture of Melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi
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Good going Robert :-) embarrass the h*ll out of the RML dude. We've been
contending that ACT didn't know the dif between a tri and a herbert for
months
{see past text :-) } I'll bet you're one of those propeller heads (Sci.
dude)
that likes to pick on computer nerds :-)
> Just thought that I would point out my observation for the List's
>information and/or confirmation.
Seriously, you can find a photo to compare it to at
http://home.earthlink.net/~sbuckel/herbertaxelrodi.JPEG
Although the JPEG conversion lost some of the detail you can easily see
that
it's a very different fish. I don't recall offhand but Adrian might also
have a
photo of a real M. herbertaxelrodi on his homepage too.
This is exactly the reason why we really have to work at keeping the
species
named correctly. Here we've been shown a perfect example where there's a
mixup
between an Oz fish and a NG fish that both happen to be yellow. How can we
hope
to keep the stream strains separate?
