Re: NANFA-L-- Amazon Mollies
Bob Bock (bockhouse-in-earthlink.net)
Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:11:44 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
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<DIV>What you bought were probably hybrids of P. velifera and P. latipinna, and maybe even P. petensis. Those are the three sailfin species, and they've been crossed a lot by breeders. (Latipinia is the species we have here in the U.S. and range from the South Atlantic Coast on along the Gulf Coast in to Mexico. Velifera picks up around the Yucatan and of the two is probably the larger and prettier species. Petensis is an inland salifin species no longer seen in the hobby, but crossed with domestic stock to bring many years ago to bring about greater freshwater tolerance.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Sailfins you buy in the store are probably hybrids of those three species, and may have some sphenops or mexicana genes as well. (These latter two are short fin freshwater species from Mexico.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Why the storebought mollies aren't as large as they were many years ago, I don't know. What I do is check the stores regularly for exceptionally large breeder fish. A good male will come in to my local area about only about once or twice a year.<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Moontanman-in-aol.com <BR>Sent: Feb 7, 2005 2:58 PM <BR>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org <BR>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Amazon Mollies <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><FONT face=arial,helvetica><ZZZHTML><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Ok, which Mollie is the prettiest? Largest in size with the biggest fins? I used to buy these enormous black mollies with huge dorsal fins that had red trim. what ever happened to them and what species were they?<BR><BR>Moon</FONT></ZZZHTML> </DIV></FONT></BODY>
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