Re: Peces Tropicales LTDA

["Steve Waldron" <swaldron@slip.net>]

Hi Doug and all,
Besides the shipping costs, you might end up getting a big box of poorly
i.d.'ed fish, which can sometimes be a bonus, but more often than not it
ain't. I used to work for a fish wholesaler who got the fish transhipped
from someone in florida- we'd order every apisto species the exporter had on
their lists and usually the Colombian stuff was A. sp. rotpunkt- regardless
of whether we ordered macmasteri, viejita, etc. I would say rotpunkt came in
about 80% of the time, sometimes we'd get macmasteri and a few of the others
(cactuoides and aggies were Peruvian) and sometimes something really great
like hongsloi and breitbinden would come in but very rarely...Just to let
you know, its a gamble... If I were you, make some buddies at a local fish
wholesaler and go cherry pick their imports, you'll find all kinds of cool
contaminants mixed in with the tetras, wild rams, etc.
- Steve
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>From: Doug Brown <debrown@kodak.com>
>To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>Subject: Peces Tropicales LTDA
>Date: Wed, Sep 30, 1998, 7:30 AM
>

>Just for the heck of it I wrote these Bogota exporters to ask them about
>their apisto stock and below is what I got back.
>
>> WE CAN SHIP TO NEW YORK WITH AVIANCA.
>>
>> APISTOGRAMMA AND OTHER DWARF CICHLIDS, WE HAVE MANY KIND LIKE;
>>
>> A. MAcMASTERIE,
>> A.INIRIDAE
>> A.VIEJITA
>> A.RAMIREZIE
>> A.CACATUOIDES
>> A.AGASSIZI
>>
>> AND MANY OTHER.
>>
>> WE CAN SEND ASORT BOX WITH 200 PCS TO US$0.50 EACH.
>
>Is this for real? Anyone want to go in with me? :)
>
>-Doug Brown
>debrown@kodak.com
>
>
>
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