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Re: OT. bettas supply and demand
One last point . Why are bettas going for $300 plus.
capitilisum, Supply and demand. More people want them
then the supply is not keeping up. This is a great
country. beanie babies, Pokemon, and now Bettas. It's
the American way.
Dave Sanchez
--- Frauley Elson <fraulels at videotron_ca> wrote:
>
>
> David Lains wrote:
> >
> > Insert Tongue in cheek
> >
> > Killies just happen...Except when they are put in
> a basement, and raised by
> > John Doe and fed brine shrimp. We may not be
> trying to select for a new
> > strain but selection is at work even in our
> basement and it is on a
> > different track than those in the wild.
>
> David,
> Okay, you got me... The selection comes quickly too
> - I have a wild
> import of a cichlid that has an established aquarium
> line, and the
> behavioral differences are striking. The wild fish
> feed in a radically
> different manner than the ones from the same
> location/identical
> appearance ten years in the hobby. I'm sure we see
> the same sort of
> thing with killies.
> But, we aren't intentionally selecting fins that
> make them unable to
> swim, or finnage that makes them unable to reproduce
> naturally. "Wild
> killies just happen" might have been a better
> phrasing. Silence might
> have been good too ;-)
> You got me on the marmoratus too. I guess we can't
> diss fish for being
> inbred when we keep killies...
> -Gary
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