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Re: NFC: Re: Donated Killies

Wright,

If n I can start getting some life histories out of you I could be strong
armed into letting a group loose your way...:) So far the BP in its 18
months or so of exsistance have provided all of 1 life history ...!

I hold fish hostage for data :)


Robert Rice NFC  President
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:20:55 -0800 Wright Huntley <huntley1 at home_com>
writes:
> robert a rice wrote:
> > 
> > if I get em we will make them avaliable to NFC folks ...we will 
> keep some
> > to set up breeding groups and the rest will be auctioned off to 
> raise
> > funds for the breeders club.
> > 
> 
> I do hope you will put me down to propagate some of them. [Pant, 
> pant...]
> 
> I had a tiny baby fish in with the stuff I collected in Avon Park, 
> last
> June. Someone said, then, it looked to be a baby *chrysotus*. It 
> grew up to
> be a beautiful spangled *Fundulus chrysotus* with strong melanistic 
> spots
> scattered over the entire body. Right now, it is a spectaculer point 
> of
> interest in the 55G tank in my living room. It compares very well 
> with the
> (rather outstanding) Venezuelan *Ameca splendens* male I have in 
> there, with
> nearly as much side sparkles and the added visual grabber of the 
> marbled
> jet-black random spots. [They get great side light from the big 
> front
> windows.]
> 
> It totally outshines the herd of bluefin killies, two species of 
> wild Betta,
> and two species of sunfish.
> 
> Without any standard of comparison, I have no idea if the fish is a 
> male or
> a female, but I'd sure like to get some mates to continue such a 
> brilliant
> tank specimen -- please?
> 
> Wright
> 
> PS. Robert. Any bodies you need buried or anything?
> 
> PPS. All that collecting chatter ended your drought, didn't it? Now 
> you can
> soon wade in mud while brushing dust off your hats in FL. ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Wright Huntley, Fremont CA, USA, 510 494-8679  wright at killi dot 
> net
> 
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Robert Rice NFC  President
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