Re: Buying & Selling From List Members

[swaldron@slip.net]

>This is rediculous pile of crap.  I helped collect the original brood stock
>in the Alto Carinagua near the Puerto Ayacucho Airport, their is no way
>these fish are hybrids.

You should be very careful when assuming that just because a fish comes
from the "wild" that its genetic integrity is intact. I have been
collecting myself and can take you to locales in Guyana, near the Timheri
Airport, where one can find cardinal tetras (a fish that has never made it
up the Rio Branco from the Rio Negro or over the Kamoa Mts. into the
Essequibo)- these fish were transplanted from Brazil by a rather famous
american discus breeder...I did not know they were collected near Puerto
Ayacucho (a major ornamental fish transhipping hub), and that only
strengthens my suspicions...nowadays, fish get moved and transplanted from
their natal habitats all over the ornamental fish trade routes. I could be
wrong, I'll fully admit that but I have enough experience with wild caught
forms of hongsloi to have been concerned and form an objective opinion- but
that is just my opinion, I don't regret culling.

O.K. I regret calling into question Tim's skills as a breeder- the fish he
sent me were obviously well reared- I was reacting rather emotionally to
his childish attempts to muddy my reputation on a public forum over a minor
transaction that was about to be resolved. So for that I apologize, I for
one had no interest in escalating this and wish none of you were wasting
your irreplaceable time on this. This is the last post you will read from
me on the subject. sorry again

                              Steven J. Waldron

                             http://WWW.ANURA.ORG
               "Natural History, Captive Husbandry, Conservation and
                           Biophilia of Tropical Frogs"

                    




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