Re: [Killietalk] A newbie with questions, and a little about me

[Bjimclark at aol_com]

I obtained "spotless orange" australe from Karl H. Walter, a German  aquarist 
who lives in Canada at West Coast Weekend, a killifish show held  yearly on 
the west coast, in 2004. He told me that he had recieved  some orange autrale 
from a lady(name unknown) on the East Coast with a reduced  number of spots and 
attempted, through selection, to breed out the spots.
The fish in my tanks do not breed 100% "spotless orange." Some  males are 
"spotless" with white lyretales. Some have the normal maroon  lyres. Others have 
spots.
The original australe was a brown fish and the orange was a sport that  
occurs occasionally in spawns. I assume but don't know whether the orange pops  up 
in nature. Several new populations of australe have been collected in recent  
years. The ones I've seen had the basic austale pattern pattern( red spots,  
lyretale, etc) on a dark body.
Although results with australe can vary, most consider it easy. Some have  
problems. I usually spawn about three pair in a small tank,around 5 gals with a  
sponge filter and lots of spawning mops. 
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