[Killietalk] Variability of species

[Tony Terceira <terceira at ride_ri.net>]

Hi all,

        If you ever doubted the need to be very careful with labeling and 
maintaining the natural variability of killies, I invite you to view a 
small album of images that I uploaded to the members gallery in my Photo 
albums.

        The original wild fish were quite consistent, but then again, I 
was dealing with only a small group of 6 pair.  As the F1 started to 
develop from this spawning of the group of 6 pair, there started to appear 
some very different color variability.  Of course we have diet, etc to add 
to the color differences, but also the natural variability of some species.

        The most variability that I have seen in F1 and wild fish were 
with Fundulopanchax arnoldi Ughelli  ... since we had over 250 fish in a 
single collection arrive, the variability was amazing, and as the fish has 
been distributed and reproduced we are still seeing, radical 
variability...............  wonderful.

        Enjoy the images................

Tony in Rhode Island


Tony Terceira
Scituate, Rhode Island

terceira at ride_ri.net

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