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Re: German Blue Rams/ Wild Caught...for Johann



Hi Johann,
I like that story:). How's your German these days?
I remember that my late father( who got me into this hobby) told me your story around bedtime,too.
You know, I remember how those Angelfish got into the Rhein river. The following story is true: My father bought the first family tank back in the late sixties. The tank was doing great for a few years. My father used to sit down and watch his tank every night. He had one big Angelfish in there and some Guppies . One day our LFS received a shipment with the first Cardinal Tetras in our area. My father had to have those. They were still pretty small. He bought a nice school of 20 or thirty of them at an outrageous pricetag. You couldn't get my Dad away from the tank after the Cardinals where added the same day.
We sat and watched them for hrs that night. The next morning my father rushed to the tank after he got up to see his new pride and joy. To his horror all but two or three of the Cardinals were gone. We looked all around the tank . We thought they jumped out,but we couldn't find any. Then we saw one big fat happy Angelfish coming out of hiding,hunting down the last Cardinals. Well to make a long story short,that's how those Angelfish ended up in the Rhine River:).
Before you flame me ,my Dad killed that fish in a bucket of ice and burried it near our Roses.It was a good looking Angelfish though that didn't deserve such a harsh dead.
I took the tank over a few years later and started to breed some local caught fish in there. They were called "Stichlinge". Those showed brood care behavior just like Apistos. The males had bright red bellies during the spawning time. The tank became a terrarium ,then a fishtank again. Now it sits in my mothers basement back in Germany.
Take care
Max



From: BigJohnW@webtv.net (John Wubbolt)
Reply-To: apisto@listbox.com
To: apisto@listbox.com
Subject: Re: German Blue Rams/ Wild Caught...
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:34:12 -0400 (EDT)

Max

You forgot to tell how those wild caught German blue rams got the Blue
part of their name, from those cold chilly waters of the Rheine.... and
the worst part of the story from what my father Hans told me was, that
while swimming in those cold frigid waters, some wild Angelfish who were
rather shy and unexperienced in the ways of breeding, came upon a pair
of German Blue Rams spawning and just were so taken back by the spawning
act that they blushed so hard in that cold Rheine water, that they
permanently became known as the German Blue Blushing Angelfish.

You know, these are the stories that just never seem to get released,
other then told down through the generation of father to son.... father
to son.....I feel obligated to tell them to someone seeing as I most
likely will remain a single man, with no children to pass these family
stories down to.

Johann "the name my father Hans called me"


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