REgards Hank
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> I think you got part of my post(875) in my reply to
> Gunthers profile where i mentioned that you could spend
> around 1000 to attend some of these conv."s
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> > Rarefish at lax is Kent Webster's friend Tanner. Kent is a
breeder
> and essentially a rainbowfish wholesaler. He really doesn't want
> his wholesale people getting mad at him so Tanner does all of his
on-
> line stuff for him. Tanner plucks the stuff directly out of
Kent's
> tank so you aren't getting stuff second hand with the possibility
of
> crosses. Kent if he's not selling yet, will be shortly selling
> wanamensis again. Kent writes most of the stuff up for Tanner for
> Aquabid so he gets it right. We've had several discussions about
> making his descriptions interesting and also informative. I think
I
> wrote one of his earlier writeups, probably the zigzag (G. doryiti)
> or the millenium (pseudoincisus) but the rest is Kent, with a tad
of
> my influence :-) Heck I read his writeups and start to bid on the
> stuff when I realize, "hey I've already got that"! Also a great
> many of his photos are mine that I shot of Kent's fish when I was
> out at the hatchery last February. I stood on a step stool
> > photographing fish one at a time in our phototank for something
> like 8 hours. I support Kent and friend as Kent is really the
only
> breeder in the US that can supply the quality and the quanity of
> rainbowfish. The stuff in Florida and what gets imported is often
a
> joke.
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> > His Goo obos are only getting brighter and breeding even more
> fish with color. Some of the offspring are not very colorful and
> sort of revert back to the wild so if you buy six young fish from
> him be sure to select the brightest colored ones for breeding. He
> tells me that he has some newer pairs that even outrival the shots
> that are up on Aquabid at the moment. I think I would wait to get
> fish though until the spring as it gets pretty cold in Vermont in
> the winter. Good reason to keep fish, stay in and keep warm!
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> > cheers,
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> > Gary Lange
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> > Eileen Kortright <eileen at s...> wrote:
> > At 08:45 AM 12/16/2005, you wrote:
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:35:36 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Gary Lange <rainbowfish4u2 at y...>
> > Subject: Re: Re: Goo obo gudgeon article / "sports" vs. "wild
> forms"
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> > The comment was also meant for the fellow that hasn't identified
> himself yet "pair of icy fists". . . .
> > You know it suddenly dawned on me that I didn't introduce myself
> either. I'm surprised I didn't get put on the carpet for that :)
> > Lemme fix that, please:
> >
> > My name's Eileen Kortright. Canadian from Ontario, but married a
> Yankee and am living in VA. I'm in my mid 40s. I'm more new than
> Gunther to aquaria; I just started in August of this year. I have
6
> aquariums, with the largest being a 36g bowfront. Hrm, saw
Boesemani
> for the first time and fell in love with them :) I bought a 36g
> bowfront and a school of 7 from my LFS. I seemed to have lucked
out
> as mine are VERY colorful now and, I think, rather large. One of
my
> females is around 3.25", males about 3", couple are 2.5, but
> not "orangey" yet. The bigger ones are now starting to exhibit
> spawning behavior and I'm very excited about that! I spend a lot
of
> my time reading about rainbow fish. I just received Dr. Allen's
> Rainbowfishes book and 'm eagerly awaiting Harro's book that I
> ordered :)
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> > I have on order 3x75g and 1x50g tanks that are due to arrive in
> two weeks. My Boesemani will go into one 75g and I want to better
> the school with the ones I see on Aquabid. I want to add some Goo
> obos to that tank as well, again same person on Aquabid or another
> site that sells them and I suspect that both of those people are
> the same guy. He writes a lot like Gary Lange :) Are those yours,
> Gary? Rarefishatlax?
> >
> > The 2nd one will be for pseudoincisus, but I like the parva as
> well! The third I want to have as splendida dubulayi and possibly
> wanamensis, if I can find them, and peacock gudgeons. I did find
> some "Emerald Rainbowfish", but not sure if that's them or not. My
> smaller tanks will be stocked with blue-eyes.
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> > I'd like to breed the rainbows -- no crossbreeds! -- too.
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> > So, and I'm sure you can tell by the multitude of dumb questions
I
> ask, I'm a real newbie here :)
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> > Eileen
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> > Mar sin leibh an-dr`sda,
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> > Cym a' Gh`idhlig Ber!
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> > Researching . . .
> > Surnames: Kelly, M'Glone/M'Gloin, Duff, Mulligan, Butler,
Hammil,
> M'Gown/M'Gowan, Mulholland, Caldwell, Osman
> > Countries: Ireland (Co. Tyrone, Leitrim, Armagh, Down) Scotland
> (Linlithgow, Bo'ness, Glasgow)
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> > C anada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and
> cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
~
> Pierre Trudeau, former Canadian prime minister
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