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Dear Friends,
Last night, Thursday, Oct. 17, I attended my first, but not last, North Jersey Aquarium Society meeting. The NJAS is one of the oldest, most well known aquarium societies in the country. It's membership includes such illuminaries as Dr. Paul Loiselle and Rosario LaCorte.
My principal reason for attending was to hear Dr. Ronald Coleman speak. Ron was flown in from California, as part of the ACA speaker's program, and discussed the evolution of parental investment in broodcare. Although many fish were included in his presentation, both fresh water and marine, he focused on cichlid species from Costa Rica and Nicaraqua. It was truly a fascinating program.
Also attending was Dr. Paul Loiselle. We had the opportunity to discuss the formation and follow up of species maintenace programs, but more on that subject later.
Following the program, I was able to purchase of bag of fry, for very little money, that was donated to the society by Dr. Loiselle. These fry are F1 "Tilapia" sp. from the Cross River in southern Nigeria which is located near the Cameroonian boarder. This undescribed dwarf cichlid was featured recently on the cover of the July edition of TFH Magazine as a new cichlid species with no name and is a delayed mouthbrooder. When this fish is scientifically described, a new genus will most likely be created for it.
The fry were bred by Dr. Loiselle himself from wild caught stock originally imported by Oliver Lucanus.
I'll keep the Forum posted as developments unfold.
Thank you.
Randall Kohn
Last night, Thursday, Oct. 17, I attended my first, but not last, North Jersey Aquarium Society meeting. The NJAS is one of the oldest, most well known aquarium societies in the country. It's membership includes such illuminaries as Dr. Paul Loiselle and Rosario LaCorte.
My principal reason for attending was to hear Dr. Ronald Coleman speak. Ron was flown in from California, as part of the ACA speaker's program, and discussed the evolution of parental investment in broodcare. Although many fish were included in his presentation, both fresh water and marine, he focused on cichlid species from Costa Rica and Nicaraqua. It was truly a fascinating program.
Also attending was Dr. Paul Loiselle. We had the opportunity to discuss the formation and follow up of species maintenace programs, but more on that subject later.
Following the program, I was able to purchase of bag of fry, for very little money, that was donated to the society by Dr. Loiselle. These fry are F1 "Tilapia" sp. from the Cross River in southern Nigeria which is located near the Cameroonian boarder. This undescribed dwarf cichlid was featured recently on the cover of the July edition of TFH Magazine as a new cichlid species with no name and is a delayed mouthbrooder. When this fish is scientifically described, a new genus will most likely be created for it.
The fry were bred by Dr. Loiselle himself from wild caught stock originally imported by Oliver Lucanus.
I'll keep the Forum posted as developments unfold.
Thank you.
Randall Kohn
