Fundulop. arnoldi Ughelli Population

[Tony Terceira <terceira at ride_ri.net>]

         Hi All,


         Since many of the people h\on Killitalk represent larger groups of 
people within the AKA I would like to offer some observations and suggestions.

         I have distributed many pairs of the F1 generation of F. arnoldi 
this past year.  I trust that it will become established again in the hobby.

         Based on a year of observations, and having a very large pool of 
wild fish to begin with, I want to suggest to everyone here who has the 
fish or who knows someone who is raising this population to try to maintain 
a breeding colony.  This species exhibits wonderful morphological 
differences,  ranging from a very blue fish to a fish with vivid red and 
orange unpaired fins.  the caudal maintains its unique upper and lower band 
which easily distinguishes from others in the group.

         I am now handling F2 fish and am working to make sure this 
diversity is not selectively bred out of the species in favor of a color of 
the month.  IN all cases, I advise a pool of at least two males and four 
females where possible for a breeding pool.


         Since we imported them (Terceira & Rossi i.e. TR01) at this point 
we can be insured that the current gene pool is from the same site.  I have 
been back crossing F1 to wild in both directions to insure the vigor of the 
fish as they make their way into the hobby.

         Please let everyone know of the natural color variation. There is 
not a "blue arnoldi" and a yellow arnoldi  from Ughelli near Warri .. the 
type locality but rather an extreme variability within the species.

         Good killie keeping..............  Tony
Tony Terceira
terceira at ride_ri.net

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