Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!halo From: halo@cognos.uucp (Hal O'Connell) Newsgroups: alt.aquaria Subject: Re: breeding marine fish Message-ID: <2959@cognos.UUCP> Date: 9 May 88 14:48:49 GMT Article-I.D.: cognos.2959 Posted: Mon May 9 10:48:49 1988 References: <11571@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <3021@leo.UUCP> <9145@reed.UUCP> <3777@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: halo@cognos.UUCP (Hal) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 39 In article <3777@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: }In article <9145@reed.UUCP> sabol@reed.UUCP (Bryan Sabol) writes: }} }}} I would like hear more. I wish like hell we could suck bioligists }}}into this from rec.bio, perhaps we should cross post? At least in this }} }} }} Yup, i really don't know if you could call me one, but I'm just }}finishing up my thesis (in undergrad work) in Biology....my thesis was }}doing a behavioral study of the process of acclimation of clownfish }}(anemonefish) to anemones. } }decent. } }Ok, a guy called, I think, Peter Davies was suposed to have revises genus }apistogramma (south american dwarf cichlids) in the late seventies, }early eighties. Any clue as to wheather this happened ? } }Also, what happened with genus Aphyosemion/Roloffia ? Ok, I'll come clean. I guess I sort of qualify as a biologist. I do have an Honours BSc and I did specialize in Ichthyology (Specifically, salmon toxicology and embryology). But, hell, I work with these stupid machines these days, so I'm a little out of touch with the real world 8-}. Despite this, I have no idea of the answers to Richard's questions. In fact, I didn't realize that there was a revision occurring with Apistogramma spp. Anyway, since you can still get Dwarf Rams (used to be Apistogramma ramerizi (spelling?)), despite our best efforts to impose an artificial taxonomy, the fish continue to rise above it... -- Hal O'Connell decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!halo Cognos Incorporated P.O. Box 9707 (613) 738-1440 3755 Riverside Dr. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA, K1G 3Z4