Weird Aphyosemion australe (gold).

[Andrew Broome <broome at manawatu_gen.nz>]

Folks,

Lately, both in New Zealand and South Africa, some odd forms of the
fish we normally call the gold australe have been appearing.  I first 
heard about it in NZ towards the end of 1997 with some young fish that
I'd given away throwing a peculiar male with much less colouration in 
the fins etc.  When I mentioned this to a friend on the AUNZZA list in 
South Africa, he said he'd noticed a similar thing with some fish that 
he'd bred from stock obtained from Germany.  He has had some luck breeding
from these fish and is in the process of attempting to 'fix' it as a strain.
This will obviously take at least a few more generations before he can be 
sure that he has something.

There are some photos available at:

http://phoenix.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~rhl/killi/index.html

Let me know what you think or if you've seen such a thing in
your own tanks.

Later,

Andrew@home.

*NZKA 137, NAKA 5, SKG, AKA 07212, BKA 073.05, PNAS, MFEC
*NZHS, NZCPS...
*  Stayed awake for hours again last night,
*  Just searching for a reason to keep up the fight...

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