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Re: Fp.gardneri "nsukka"
Hi All, I agree 100% with Donna, I went back to my original
slides of Nsukka and the description is quite accurate. It is a rather
robust fish quite bulky when full adult size. The AKA web site gallery has
an image of Nsukka population and I will be updating the slides with new
originals so that the image will be easily studied.
Barry Cooper, AKA Web master and I have agreed to replace
images with original scanned slides ... It will really make the site
enjoyable to view ...
Tony
At 08:55 AM 7/6/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Another voicie heard from ...
> I've had N'sukka for about 5 years. Mine (males, of course) have blue to
>green base color, with a liberal spotting of red across the body, sometimes
>almost forming lines on the gill covers and around the head. Spotting goes
>all the way out on the dorsal, anal, and caudal fins. Margins of dorsal and
>caudal may be off white, pale blue-white, pale yellow, or bright yellow.
>This variability seems to be natural. I prefer the blue-white coloration
>myself, but others prefer the yellow.
> In my fish I've never seen orange margins.
> I am advised (by one who should know well, an expert in the field) that
>color enhancing foods can change the base color from greenish to blue, and
>that the original fish were more green in base coloration, therefore this is
>to be preferred.
> Females are golden brown with liberal small red spots overall.
> These fish tend to be solid, almost "blocky" in appearance, as opposed
>to some of the more "slender" Fundulopoanchax anc Aphyosemions.
> Nice, vigorous fish; fairly easy breeders.
>donna in Ohio
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Bob Meyer <bmeyer at parkland_cc.il.us>
>To: <killietalk at aka_org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 8:07 PM
>Subject: Re: Fp.gardneri "nsukka"
>
>
> > I am not sure what pure Nsukka looks like. The Nsukka I bought looks
>nothing like either of yours. Ever since I got them 6 years ago, I have
>just called them gardneri aquarium strain. I judged a show and there were
>4 different Nsukka entries. None looked the same.
> >
> > I think this is a gardneri that crosses easily. I am not sure what they
>are supposed to look like anymore....bob
> >
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