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Re: Fp. gardneri Akure BLUE
Two reasons to answer Greg's post <grins> Thanks Greg.
First I have received only about 25 listings from the AKA Species Census
site and maybe 3 more as personal e-mails. Most are from the newer people
in the hobby. I won't name names, but some of the biggest breeders in the
hobby are in this list and so far not one of them has sent me a
listing! Come on people! Let me do my job and produce a great Census so
we all know whats happening to our fish.
Fp. gardneri Akure (blue)
Okay a little history lesson. Fp. gardneri Akure was one of the first
forms of this species in the hobby in the 1960's and before. I even went
back and looked at some of the early Killie Notes to reference the species
a bit. Its kind of fun to look at some of the names breeding fish then and
now. In 1972, the only Gardneri listed are yellow and blue - and if my
memory serves me corectly - all were "Akure" in those days. Tony Terceira
can corect me on this, but I remember going into Walter Indell's home many
many times where he had hundreds of yellow/blue gardneri Akure. All came
from the same parentage - just some had white edges to their fins and
others had yellow.
To 1982: Sometime between the rush of the 1970s and the 1980s "Akure"
pretty much disappeared from the hobby, replaced in popularity by misaje,
P82, Jos Plateau and a couple other populations. I looked at a couple of
BNLs from 1982-83 and found a few people listed Akure still, but no longer
separated 'yellow / blue."
To 1988: I had left the hobby as we are all wont to do on occassion and
returned in 1988-89. At that time, I could not find "Akure listed in a
BNL. Basically the fish was missing in action. At that time an occasional
listing of Fp. gardneri yellow could be found - whether or not it was Akure
I have no idea. I was fortunate to go to a meeting of the Tropical Fish
Club of Burlington (Vermont) around 1990 and lo and behold - there it
was Aphyosemion gardneri Akure. A local fish breeder who was not an AKA
member had kept it for many years after buying it at a Northeast Council
(New England) Convention in the early 80s. Its even possible it came from
my original fishroom in Connecticut way back when - although I would not
want to bet on it.
Well, naturally I bought the fish immediately and not too long down the
road offerred it as eggs in the F&E Listing of the A.K.A. BNL. I sold alot
of 'Akure' eggs! However, during all the time I had the fish in the
early 1990s, I never once saw a 'blue form' of the fish. I don't know if
the person I got it from had just bred it true to the yellow or what.
I guess what I am sort of saying is this. I suspect most if not all of the
fish designated as 'Akure' in the hobby today probably got their start back
in my fishroom. I know no one else listed the fish for sale until after
they received it from me during the early 90s. Just sheck your BNLs (and I
hope my failing eyesight didn't miss something). So it seems to me Akure
'blue' may no longer exist in the hobby!
<note: I was fascinated to see one listing in the early 90s for Fp.
gardneri Akure albino. I have never seen it listed this way since or before.>
Note to Max: Thanks ! I agree ... and get them darned Killies going
<grins> ! !
Tom Grady
At Thursday 02:37 PM 4/5/01, you wrote:
>This is a good example of why Tom Grady and others are so aggressive in
>getting AKA members, to list species that they maintain. While a "BLUE"
>variety of Akure may or may not still be in the hobby, it would be great if
>we can all provides our lists to Tom and support the Killi Conservation
>Committee.
>
>There is a variety of gardneri, the Fp. gardneri gardneri CI-99 which has
>some blue in the lower tail and annal fin. It is a striking killi, but does
>not have the blue coloration in all fins.
>
>Greg A. Simpson
>Billings, Montana
>
>
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