KillieOrCory
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(21/11/05 9:51)
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More Akure Blue info
Found the following in Killitalk archives:
Tom Grady:
"Fp. gardneri Akure (blue)
Okay a little history lesson. Fp. gardneri Akure was one of the first forms of this species in the hobby in the 1960's and before. I even went back and looked at some of the early Killie Notes to reference the species a bit. Its kind of fun to look at some of the names breeding fish then and now. In 1972, the only Gardneri listed are yellow and blue - and if my
memory serves me corectly - all were "Akure" in those days. Tony Terceira can corect me on this, but I remember going into Walter Indell's home many many times where he had hundreds of yellow/blue gardneri Akure. All came from the same parentage - just some had white edges to their fins and
others had yellow.
To 1982: Sometime between the rush of the 1970s and the 1980s "Akure" pretty much disappeared from the hobby, replaced in popularity by misaje, P82, Jos Plateau and a couple other populations. I looked at a couple of BNLs from 1982-83 and found a few people listed Akure still, but no longer separated 'yellow / blue."
To 1988: I had left the hobby as we are all wont to do on occassion and returned in 1988-89. At that time, I could not find "Akure listed in a BNL. Basically the fish was missing in action. At that time an occasional listing of Fp. gardneri yellow could be found - whether or not it was Akure
I have no idea. I was fortunate to go to a meeting of theTropical Fish Club of Burlington (Vermont) around 1990 and lo and behold - there it was Aphyosemion gardneri Akure. A local fish breeder who was not an AKA member had kept it for many years after buying it at a Northeast Council (New England) Convention in the early 80s. Its even possible it came from my original fishroom in Connecticut way back when - although I would not want to bet on it.
Well, naturally I bought the fish immediately and not too long down the road offerred it as eggs in the F&E Listing of the A.K.A. BNL. I sold alot of 'Akure' eggs! However, during all the time I had the fish in the early 1990s, I never once saw a 'blue form' of the fish. I don't know if the person I got it from had just bred it true to the yellow or what.
I guess what I am sort of saying is this. I suspect most if not all of the fish designated as 'Akure' in the hobby today probably got their start back in my fishroom. I know no one else listed the fish for sale until after they received it from me during the early 90s. Just sheck your BNLs (and I hope my failing eyesight didn't miss something). So it seems to me Akure 'blue' may no longer exist in the hobby!
Tom Grady"
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