Pronotho. kiyawensis

[RuevenM at aol_com]

Hi Tim,

    I didn't realize you were doing an article. I was just packaging the 
articles I am sending you so I could mail them tomorrow. I am sending the 
original "seymouri" description from an issue of JAKA in 1971, Roloff's 1974 
TFH article and the DKG's Walter Kessel's 1976 JAKA/KN article. 
       Kessel mentions that a Dr. Beck and Frd. Breitfeld of the DKG-DDR both 
did articles on "seymouri" and I am assuming he means for the DKG-DDR 
journal, but maybe he means the former West Germany's DKG journal. Breitfeld 
is in the DKG today and wrote the great Tetra Press book on killies. Kessel 
also mentions a Mr. W. Morgner of the DKG-DDR from whom Kessel got the fish. 
Kiyawensis ("seymouri") was around the DDR in the early 70's more so than 
anywhere else. I remember Fred Stewart of the AKA in Detroit in 1974 showing 
me eggs of the then "seymouri" (kiyawensis) that he had obtained from a 
trading partner in the old DDR. Rosario LaCorte raised quite a few from the 
Blair importation but he let the fish slip from his fishroom. 
    I hope you can document the methods and story of the breeder who has kept 
this species going for 30 years. That is REAL killie history and deserves to 
be known far and wide. It is extraordinary -- like LaCorte keeping Notho. 
furzeri for about 30 years. It is even more amazing since both of these 
species seem to throw eggs that incubate all over the place timewise.
   I will send the materials as fast as I can afford so you can use them for 
your article. I made color copies of Roloff's excellent photo and of a photo 
of a very ragged pair in the seymouri description. They look like the pair in 
the old photo on your site.

Robert Ellermann
---------------
See http://www.aka.org/AKA/subkillietalk.html to unsubscribe
Join the AKA at http://www.aka.org/AKA/Applic.htm