Re: [Killietalk] N. steinforti

[George & Melanie Caruso <caraway at erienet_net>]

I have been really impressed with the many new and hard to find species 
of Notho's and other killies that are often made available to the hobby. 
I am disappointed though that there is rarely, if ever any of the 
established species such as the many gardneri varieties that are ever 
made available. Maybe not as a new specie but as wild collected fish 
that can be reintroduced into the hobby to strengthen the blood lines 
that have been established. I have become most interested in the 
gardneri species available and am always in search of new fish or any 
wild or F1 fish that would be made available. What are the chances of 
something like this happening? Or is there a reason this does not 
happen? Have some of the species become so common that there is not 
enough interest to make this a future project.
I hope not.
George

Barry Cooper wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> Recently specimens of N. steinforti have become available for 
> distribution in the US, courtesy of one of our friends in the BKA. 
> This fish, which has been collected only once, had become rare and 
> probably had disappeared from the hobby in the US. The fish was 
> collected near the village of Kimamba in Tanzania in 1976. After 
> consultation with Ruud Wildekamp, one of the collectors, it has been 
> firmly established that only one of the two localities at which the 
> fish was found was introduced to the hobby. This was the T 76-4 
> locality. Thus, all of the fish in the hobby are derived from this 
> introduction and should bear this locality name. After discussion with 
> a few other hobbyists that are working to preserve this species, and 
> with Ruud's support, we have decided on the full designation of N. 
> steinforti "Kimamba T 76-4".  I have added this locality information 
> to the online registry.
>
> This fish is listed in the current N&RSC listing and will be 
> distributed with this locality designation. As a matter of interest, 
> the locality from which the fish was originally collected has been 
> revisited several times by collectors, including Ruud Wildekamp, Brian 
> Watters, myself and others. We have not been able to find the fish 
> again. Thus, this species should be treated as threatened in the hobby 
> and a special effort should be made to maintain it.
>
> Barry Cooper




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