Re: [Killietalk] Blue Gularis history

["Robert Goldstein" <rgoldstein at rjgacarolina_com>]

I think an importation from that Nigerian supplier would be an inexpensive 
way to possibly get new gularis, and other killies we don't yet know about. 
I'd be glad to chip in on a shipment if anyone wants to set it up. Nigeria 
is too dangerous a place right now for westerners, so I wouldn't recommend 
traveling there.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ROBERT ELLERMANN" <ruevenm at sbcglobal_net>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: [Killietalk] Blue Gularis history


> Hi Bob,
>
>       The wild cross reference was in an article you did on Blue Gularis 
> back in the late 60's for The Aquarium Magazine. You were describing John 
> Gonzales' great fish that were pretty good sized but with incredible 
> color, finnage and overall form (something so often forgotten in fish 
> raising!!!!). Bruce, correct if I am wrong, but John crossed a wild female 
> gularis that you found at Paramount with the domestic strain in the late 
> 50's or early 60's. Aquarium Hamburg brought in the first wild blue 
> gularis after the end of WWII in the late 40's or very early 50's. Roloff 
> has a fine published photo of fish from that shipment that can be seen in 
> an article by the great J. P. Arnold on gularis in an old 1949 issue of 
> Aquarium Journal and again in the famous Dr. George S.Myers' issue of AJ 
> introducing "annual killifish" in 1952. If "American" gularis made it 
> through the war years, I do not know. I remember that the big gularis in 
> the 70's were not as colorful as the 6" size. Paul!
>  Hoppe
> had the most gorgeous strain of blue gularis I ever saw. It was as if the 
> color was caked on the fish. I have never seen a gularis any where else 
> that even came close. There is an old photo of Paul's fish, when young and 
> a bit torn up, in a mid-70's issue of JAKA when he did an article on 
> breeding them. Gene Wolfsheimer had a lovely strain of gularis. We had a 
> fine strain in Houston through-out the late 60's and 70's. I think we 
> truly need a wild collection imported.
>
>
>  Bobby
>
> Robert Goldstein <rgoldstein at rjgaCarolina_com> wrote:
>  I checked Fish Base, which lists blue gularis up to 13.0 cm SL. Add an 
> inch
> and a half for the caudal fin, and that gives about 6.5 inches. I wouldn't
> place any credence in wooden models or fish "mounts," which are also 
> models.
> I'd be interested in knowing the size of the largest preserved specimen, 
> or
> the largest measured and reported in a technical publication. On another
> facet of this conversation, I seem to vaguely recall (all my recollections
> are vague) that the aquarium blue gularis was derived by crossing two wild
> populations. Don't remember where I read this, but it was a long time ago.
> If there was a point to such a cross (other than the last two survivors in 
> a
> breeding set-up), it might have been to cross a small colorful strain with 
> a
> larger duller strain, but that's just speculating.
>
>
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>
>> Where are Gularis native to? I'm thinking Asia, but can't recall. Rob
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