Re: interim Fp. coordinator

[Doug Karpa-Wilson <dkarpawi at indiana_edu>]

>David said...
>
>> I have been happily dstributing the walkeri GH2 and can
>> back off some on the number of tanks devoted to them.
>> Unless of course they want 3 pairs to go out with each BNL.
>> I either have to back off some or learn to eat sushi.
>
>This was the eventual downfall of this species in New Zealand
>a few (7 or 8) years back.  It was rare, then some breeders got
>ahold of it - treated it well and BANG!  Suddenly there are 300 of
>the darn things to every killie hobbyist in the country.  A year later
>there were none.  At all.  Never seen it again.  As is 'gone forever'.
>
>Don't let that happen in the US.  Easy fish can be a pain to keep
>breeding year in year out...
>
>Andrew.
>
>
That's what the KCC is supposed to do.  There's a group of four of us (five
actually for the moment) committed to keeping it for at least two years,
and finding someone to keep breeding it when we move on to something else.
I don't suppose we could arrange to import it into NZ?  Let me know offlist
Andrew if you want to work on that.

Doug



Doug Karpa-Wilson
1821 S. Maxwell St.
Bloomington, IN 47401


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