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Re: [Killietalk] "Setting the hook"
In about 1958 I was getting burned out on breeding chicklets and
livebearers, when I met Stan Weitzman. He was finishing his PhD and
teaching anatomy at Stanford Med. School.
I think I may have met him at the old Nippon Goldfish store in Town and
Country Village, across the El Camino from Stanford. Turns out he lived
right around the corner from me in south Palo Alto.
He turned me on to GUE and it has been downhill ever since. At one
point, I was feeding 150 containers of fish -- 90% of them killies.
Stan got me to attending the San Francisco Aquarium Society meetings in
the Steinhart Aquarium in SF. This provided connections to all the early
brineshrimp and other pioneers of the fishy academic world of those
days. The connections he brought to me at the CA Academy of Sciences
greatly helped my understanding of color photography and printing, as I
was doing research on color systems at Stanford, in those days.
I did not have the Innes book, but was well aware of it. My "Bible" in
those days was the 1956 edition of Axelrod and Schultz. I think I recall
the first announcement in TFH of Col. White's introduction of the Cyno
that bears his name.
Stan and I both haunted Nippon, and I think I was there the day he
discovered a contaminant in a shipment of *Corydoras hastatus*. They
turned out to be, after he published the description, *Corydoras
habrosus* one of the more delightful pygmy catfishes.
BTW, I think Stan once took me to see that guppy fishroom Bill just
mentioned, in Santa Clara. It was an impressive sight! Big wide,
well-illuminated and planted tanks. Garage fishrooms were the thing in
those days. Stan had a combo fishroom and photo studio, with room for a
dissecting microscope for doing fish osteology. I loved to watch him
draw bone pics!
My garage gave way to lots of small tanks, while my Jaguar had to sit
out and bake in the CA sun (not a good idea on leather and walnut).
Wright
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