Re: [RML] RE: The hubbub
caryho at ix.netcom.com
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 22:51:31 GMT
In The Dawn of the Third Age Mike Adams <mfadam1 at pop.uky.edu> woke me
from my contemplation by writing:
>This is how I understand it (anyone else feel free to correct me) the marci
>is a hybrid from europe, with the marci being the name of the wife of the
>guy who crossed the fish to get them. One of the fish crossed is a
>parkinsoni but I've heard different things about the other. When this fish
>was first made available to pet stores, the genus Melanotaenia was placed
>in front of it, presumably to give it legitimacy. But, it's nothing but a
>hybrid.
It is a hybrid, so does it really matter what went into it. If you
cross it with parkinsoni you'll just get more garbage. I have heard
from some one who unknowingly obtained this cross, it was represented
as a true species when he imported them from the original source.
Before he found out the truth, he had spawned and passed them around
to numerous Florida fish farms. So its probably in the American hobby
to stay :-(
later
Cary Hostrawser
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