Snip,snip,
>And generally speaking, auction fish can be a real hazard - I'm going
>through this at the moment, a disease problem, from some auction fish. But
>that brings me to my next point - where can newcomers to rainbowkeeping
>obtain fish barring auctions or shops? I know that a lot of more
>experienced keepers have sold fish to newcomers on occasion, but when it
>comes right down to it if they sold or gave fish to everyone who wanted them
>they'd soon have none left for themselves! A lot of people are loath to let
>everyone know exactly what they have, maybe they are worried about thievery
>or reports to Customs or the like, I'm not sure.
I think the first thing we have to do is to have all fish sold at any ANGFA
Auction labelled with the breeders name, and variety. I don't know if Bruce
picked up on this item in his backlog of mail and I also forgot to bring it
up at last nights committee meeting. However, I think the national commitee
should make it a bylaw of ANGFA Conventions that this be done. States
Groups should also implement the same. I know Qld already does this.
As for newcomers obtaining fish, I think this is one of the benefits of
joining an ANGFA group. I don't know about other State groups but Qld has a
huge auction every meeting, it fact it dominates some meetings, which can
become a real pain (IMHO). However, we also must ensure that newcomers are
not getting diseased fish. We should make "Ulcer Disease" a reportable
disease. This is not to isolate that particular member but we should be
helping anyone with this problem. Also in this instant society we have today
everybody want everything today. I think anyone that wants a particular fish
has to learn to be patient. They will get them eventually, just like
M.Praecox. Everybody has them now!
> snip - but I think it reasonable that if
>someone had a few spare, say for argument's sake, Desert Gobies, or other
>highly desirable fish(g), then they could post details here with a request
>that replies go via personal email.
Come on fellow listmembers, Andrew wants some "DESERT GOBIES" ;-)
Anyone out there got some to spare!
Joking aside, I think it is a good idea Andrew - anyone got any spare
M.arfakensis???
Adrian T.
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Adrian R. Tappin
atappin at ecn.net.au
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
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