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Re: Fp.gardneri "nsukka"
thanks to everyone that replied to this thread. I will try raising some in soft and some in hard Al. Eggs are pretty abundant with these guys. Tony, when I come over with the CD, I'd like to take a look at the nsukka slide. You've seen the fish, remember I asked you about it? I'll bring a male along. They came in as just gardneri from a large exporter. looks fairly close to the AKA image, except there isn't alot of red around the head area. Like Bob, gotta go with gardneri aquarium strain I guess. thanks all. Ron
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On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:05:17
Tony Terceira wrote:
>
> 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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