Re: [Killietalk] Raising New, Wild & Rare fish

[Joseph Scanlan <drkillinut at mac_com>]

Thanks and Amen Monty     Joe S

On May 14, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Monty R. lehmann wrote:

>
>   Hi Fellow Killinuts,
>
>   I must comment on raising killies new to the hobby or being
>   outbid at the convention by deep pockets. The commentary below  
> applies
>   for Aphyosemions and Fundulopanchax mainly.
>
>   If a species I purchase at the convention makes it home alive
>   to my tanks, I stand about a %90 chance of raising it successfully.
>   The other %10 never respond for one reason or another. If I am not
>   successful with a species, I work on obtaining the fish again in  
> the future
>   to try again, using the lessons learned from keeping it the first  
> time.
>
>   As far as being outbid for rare species at the convention, I rarely
>   see a newcomer bidding hugh sums for rare fish. Most of the time  
> I am
>   out bid it is by very serious breeders like Chuck Mc... who I  
> know also have
>   a very good chance of breeding that fish and keeping it in the  
> hobby. Poor
>   breeders seldom spend the wads of green needed to obtain rare  
> fish. Sure
>   there are exceptions, but they are not the norm.
>
>   I breed and sell hundreds of pairs of very nice (and mostly  
> uncommon) killies
>   all year and put that money in an envelope for purchasing killies  
> at the
>   convention. Many of the fish I list (and some I don't list but  
> sell if buyers
>
>   ask for other species than what I list) are descendants of just  
> one pair of
>   fish [or even just a few eggs obtained years earlier like the A.  
> punctatum
>   I have been listing] bought or traded for at the convention or a  
> show.
>
>   New fish are available but they are difficult to obtain for an  
> organization
>   like the AKA to obtain, house and redistribute as no-one is  
> willing to step
>   up and devote his hobby to getting fish for others who are for  
> the most
>   part very ungrateful. Lenny Mackiowiak did a spectacular job for  
> many years
>   and received mostly criticism for what he did. Hopefully  
> killiekeepers are
>   now appreciating the effort he put out for the good of the AKA.  
> Those
>   golden years are not going to magically re-appear.
>
>   So I suggest that AKA'ers stop complaining about the situation as  
> it is not
>   going to change anytime soon. There are many species in the hobby  
> but it
>   takes personal determination to obtain them and raise them for  
> sale or trade
>   to other interested killikeepers.
>
>   Between myself and a handful of other breeders, there is probably  
> 150+
>   species or locations available, but I look forward to the  
> convention to
>   obtain new fish or new stock for bloodlines of killies that I  
> already
>   raise. So I will have my hand or bidding card in the air often at  
> the
>   convention!!
>
>    Until later then,
>
>                         Wads of Money Monty!!!!!
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