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Re: Fp. gardneri Akure BLUE
Hello all
gardenri akure albinos are still around I believe Bill Dire (spelling) has
them he might even have blue??
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Grady" <tgrady at twcny_rr.com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:38 PM
Subject: 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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