Re: NFC: Re:_NFC:_Xenoophorus_exul.....¿_captivus?

[Al G Eaton <sege7_2000 at yahoo_com>]

Thats a Goodeid, like several of the other fish you
have.  Many of them are critically endangered in the
wild or even extinct in the wild.  There are a number
of hobbyists who have the more popular species.  I
have to say, I haven't seen this one.

Klaus

--- mcclurg luke e <mcclurgl at washburn_edu> wrote:
> 
> What type of fish are they?  I'd commit to
> maintaining a colony.
> 
> Luke
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, robert a rice wrote:
> 
> > eee gads a purpose for the breeders program :)
> > 
> > Ill talk to him and se what I can do. ON  this end
> I need commitments and
> > an organized program to maintain these species.
> Without it I wont put my
> > neck out to get fish and have them disappear. With
> the anonymous nature
> > of the Internet and our spread out membership base
> it's seems difficult
> > to start a breeders program.In the past I've
> acquired endangered species
> > for breeders to work with and they change emails
> and disappear after
> > receiving the fish. 
> > 
> > VERY Discouraging. I wont go through it again,
> nothing more embarrassing
> > than having this conversation with a fisheries guy
>  who got me the
> > permits/fish
> > 
> > hows that xyz fish I got for you doing.......
> > 
> > ummm flying fish @aol.com disappeared.
> > 
> > Who ? 
> > 
> > Flyingfish...
> > 
> > You gave em to a guy named flying fish ?
> > 
> > umm see we had this breeders program that no one
> ever wanted to document
> > but everyone wanted fish and flying fish promised
> he'd be good....
> > 
> > Ohhh I see 
> > 
> > then what ?
> > 
> > Well I sent out dozens of boxes of fish and umm
> all the emails started
> > bouncing....
> > 
> > Ohhh
> > 
> > well I hope that they paid the postage at least...
> > 
> > 
> > Umm I expecting checks any day from
> > flyingfish,battleboy,hotgir561,suker21
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ohhh.....click
> > 
> > 
> > Sadly it wouldn't be so funny If it wasn't true
> and I hadn't been so
> > gullible....
> > 
> > 
> > Robert Rice - NFC president   www.nativefish.org
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 8 May 2002 02:26:55 -0700 (PDT) jake levi
> <jlevi_us at yahoo_com>
> > writes:
> > > Whats the chances of working with him to
> maintain a
> > > few colonys of these among the list members? I
> would
> > > maintain one of them. Can he ship a few?
> > > jake
> > >Robert Rice - NFC president   www.nativefish.org
> > 
> 
> 
> 


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