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RE: Species Maintenance
Greetings Andrew:
I find it hard to believe that there is no importation of Killifish to New
Zealand. These little guys seem to get around everywhere else in the world.
May I ask if there is a problem with importation restrictions?
-RJ-
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From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On
Behalf Of Andrew Broome
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 5:21 PM
To: KillieTalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: Species Maintenance
Bill said...
> ...see how many people still have dageti, or old Cape Lopez
> aquarium strain australe. Not as easy to find as one might think.
Come to New Zealand where all killies are approximately equally
rare. People here have both the above fish as well as other
old favourites such as aquarium strains of N. guentheri, N. foerschi,
N. rachovi, A. scheeli etc. Fish such as the N. guentheri and
N. foerschi have not had any 'new blood' in the 15 years I've
been watching...
Then again, we do lose things too. I miss having the old GH2
Fp. walkeri + the orange strain too - known here as 'spurelli',
Fp. filamentosus, C. nigripinnis not to mention things like Fp.
sjoestedti which disappeared from the hobby here before I
even got started (ie mid-80s).
I've been breeding up A. scheeli lately just because they were
getting to be very low in numbers nationally. Since August I've
generated 40 or so youngsters and passed the adults on to someone
else who lives miles away from any other hobbyist.
I don't currently have A. australe or E. dageti myself (except for a
single male E. dageti) but have reason to believe they're
relatively safe here at the moment. The same cannot be said
for what's possibly our last remaining strain of Fp. gardneri but my
fingers are crossed.
Anyway, enough of my blithering, my point really was that it all
depends on your perspective. It'd be nice to have the luxury of
choosing which fish you wanted to maintain...
Andrew.
Andrew Broome
NZDRI, Palmerston North
New Zealand.
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