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Post by mickthefish » Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:08 pm

hi mark
thats some amount of rasboras youve got, i saw that you said you were running out of space, ask emma if patrick can get some ( trade name) rosy emerald eyes.
small fish that won't take alot of space, i got a nice shoal of them yesterday, they are R dorsiocellata but a very attractive form.

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Post by Mad Duff » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:47 am

mickthefish wrote:hi mark
thats some amount of rasboras youve got, i saw that you said you were running out of space, ask emma if patrick can get some ( trade name) rosy emerald eyes.
small fish that won't take alot of space, I got a nice shoal of them yesterday, they are R dorsiocellata but a very attractive form.

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Any chance of a picture Mick, they sound nice.

I have only heard reports of one new find recently as far as Rasboras go so am I right in thinking these are a man made variant ?

If so is it 100% that they are not dyed in any way ?

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Post by mickthefish » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:31 am

hi mark
andy rushworth aka piggy4 said they were on a thread on petfrd,?
according to andy they are wild caughts.?
leave it a couple of days then i'll post a couple of pics, as they need a good bit of tlc at the moment, bought 21 so far two have perished,
but the rest are a wee bit stronger looking.

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Post by helen nightingale » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:48 am

they are lovely fish in standard colour anyway. i fail miserably in taking photos of them, i just get a blue fuzzy streak with a silvery green blob :evil:

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Post by Mad Duff » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:09 pm

Cheers Mick 8)
helen nightingale wrote:i fail miserably in taking photos of them, i just get a blue fuzzy streak with a silvery green blob :evil:
I get quite a few of those as well Helen :lol:
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Post by mickthefish » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:35 pm

hi mark
just checked on petfrd for the thread, if you print dorsiocellata in the search the thread title is, simi rasbora sp. from mentaya river system, the last pic on borneo's post.

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Post by Mad Duff » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:59 pm

Thanks for that Mick 8)

Shows how bad my memory is, I replied to that thread :lol:
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Post by mickthefish » Sat Nov 03, 2007 3:20 pm

hi mark
sorry it took so long to put the pics up, but i had to do alot of work on them, out of the 21 i'm left with 17 healthy fish now, the first pic is a pair the second is a small shoal of them.

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Post by Mad Duff » Sat Nov 03, 2007 3:44 pm

Very nice Mick :D
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