[Killietalk] the long line

["rosario lacorte" <lacorte1059 at comcast_net>]

 John asked the question of what is the longest line in continuous breeding.
  In 1960 I contacted Fred Kyburz, aSwiss, living in Columbia,and a collector of plants. He got involved with tropical fish and re discovered the habitatsof Nematobrycom palmeri {the emperor tetra] He was shipping to a Florida fish farm,now gone,called Franjo Fish farm.Myself and Sol Kessler ,of the Irvington Fish Bowl{N.J.] imported 100 of them. Since 1960 I still maintain this same strain with no new blood,a run of 46 years. I will continue to maintain them until I no longer can. From this breeding,in 1960,some black emperors appeared which were established as N. amphiloxus.Evidently a amphioloxus female had been captured,along with palmeri, and hence the appearence of offspring.
    With killies I maintained  Notho. melanospilus for 28 years and, upon moving to my present home, and a drastic change in room temperature,I eventually lost them as my last hatch resulted in 100% females. Something I never experienced in my last fish house. These fish were collected in Kenya,by Henry Hansen, who was a cook on board a freighter, and in a personal conversation, many years later,told me he fed them bits of meat to keep them alive for the long voyage back to the USA. He sold them to a Philadelphia shop keeper who sold them to Jacob Scheidness.Jack gave me a bag of eggs in either 1956 or 57. Jack was the innovater of the nylon spawing mop.Lest we forget. Jack was a tailor by trade so you see how the innovation evolved.
                                      Rosario LaCorte

   
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