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- From: dbs@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Dave Sheehy)
- Subject: Re: cichlids
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:28:34 GMT
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- Joey Maier (maierj@edmund.cs.andrews.edu) wrote:
- : In article <C185uC.Hs2@hpchase.rose.hp.com> dbs@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Dave Sheehy) writes:
- : >matthew.kaufman (mattk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com) wrote:
- : >: I only have experience with L. leleupi, J. regani, J. transcriptus (talk
- : >: about vicious...) L. brichardi, ...
- : ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- :
- : Didn't some taxonomist with too much time on his hands decide that these
- : are really Neolamprologus elongatus?
-
- I believe the name has changed but to what I don't know. I refuse to buy a
- new book on africans just so that I can learn the new names. I suppose someday
- I'll have to bite the bullet and do it anyway.
-
- : >Their only downside
- : >is that they are not colorful in an overt way. I happen to really like them
- : >even though as a general rule I go for the more colorful gawdy stuff (like
- : >peacocks).
- :
- : I really like mine too. When I got them I thought that they were just
- : some nice looking little cichlids, but now I really think that they look
- : elegant. One thing that makes them really attractive is that the tan
- : body, on mine at least, is accented by faint blue edging on the fins.
- : Very Nice.
-
- Really nice ones (read ones that are not inbred as Brichardi tend to be) get
- faint orange squigglies on their gill covers which is another attractive
- feature.
-
- Dave Sheehy
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