Re: Borelli colourmorphs.

[Per Wigstal <per_wigstal@yahoo.co.uk>]

Thanks for your answer.
I don´t think I have read the article you are refering to. In which magazine was it published?
Would it be possible that someone can send a scanned copy of this article to my personal e-mailaddress? Would appreciate it a lot!
 
Best regards/ Per
 
 
 


Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com> wrote:
Per,

Dr. Wolfgang Staeck wrote a wonderful article in 1999 about A. borellii. In the article Staeck describes the various biotopes in which he found this species. One of his comments was that everywhere he collected some specimens were much more colorful than others. In each locality the fish were polychromatic to some degree. He did say that the specimens tended to have more yellow in them in the Brazilian part of their range & more blue in the Paraguayan part. I
personally haven't bred a lot of different A. borellii from different locations, but my spawns, like yours, resembled the parents.

Per Wigstal wrote:

> Hi all!
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> Have been keeping and breeding A.Borellis for many years now. In fact those are my favourites among the dwarfcichlids! Back in the early eighties I bought a fish which was named A.sp. Opal. At that time some people believed that this fish was a completely new species, altough closely related to the Borelli.
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> Today the common opinion among cichlidists and apistofiles are that the original A. sp. Opal (or A.Borelli, Opal) is a breeding strain from former East Germany (DDR). Which probably is true.
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> Also there are reports from collectors and wholesalers that there are several colourmorphs living together in the Borelli habitats. Is is commonly accepted that the A. Borelli is highly polychromatic. And it is not geographical colourmorphs we are talking about. A catch with a net can bring up yellow/Blue males together with Opal colored supermales with metallicblue bodies and red-dotted cheeks. Even yellow females with red dots can occasionally be catched.
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> I have been breeding a lot of Borellis through the years, both wild catched and breeded strains. And the colours on the growing frys have always been exactly as the parents, with no exeptions! If the Borelli is polychromatic, why doesn?t the frys get different colours?? At least some male would be a supermale or getting colours different from the parents??
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> Have anyone of you ever got a "mix" of colourmorphs in a single batch of Borelli frys?
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> Best regards/ Per
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