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Hello George;
It was a pleasant surprise to hear from you through egroups. Sorry
that I've been lagging behind in chatting with you.
First, let me say thanks for publishing my pud. nyererei pix on your
site. I love the notoriety I get out of this. I 've also seen the
setup of the Baenschi pix at fishbase and again thank you for
putting them in touch with me. While talking about them you had
mentioned that you will be getting a copy of their CD's when they
come out in approx. October.
As you offered at one point to possibly copy
them for me I'd definitely look forward to it if possible. Keep me
informed of this and let me know what I can do to secure such from
you. As per my egroup intro. you will note that I've secured wild
caught Ps. Barlowi Mbenji and have them finished with the quarantine
period and waiting for the first spawning.
They are clearly preparing to do this soon as
the males are moving the gravel to entice the females. I've also
bought a scanner finally so you can expect pix at some time soon.
Don't worry I'm not ready to set up my own site any time in the near
future. I'll send them to you to look at ,archive, or publish if you
wish. I plan to try for a great spawning
sequence if possible such as I lucked in with the Baenschi. Glen
Marshall and Tom Herman went crazy when these came in. I was the
only one in the club who ordered them and they are the most vivid
tangerine orange with blue in the fins. Neither them nor I have ever
seen this vivid an orange in any cichlid. If you look at the new
price list for
the CRLCA September order you'll see they've picked these as a
recommended order. these wilds blow the heck out of the Barlowi we
can pick up commercially over here.
Speaking of the Baenschi they slowed down in June and July in
spawning but in the last 1-1/2 weeks the male has handled 3 of the 4
females who are all holding at this time.
On the topic of spawning I must say that your last month's article
on "Raising the Fry" is a first class piece of reading.
It's the best by far including talks I've listened to on fry and
techniques to follow. Since it came out I've increased my feedings
to 4-5 times a day and water changes to every 2 days at up to 50%.
The increased spurt in growth is readily visible. Thanks for a great
article and I look forward to more valuable insight articles on your
site. Without a doubt your site is the most informative that I've
been able to track down on the web. You people putting it together
deserve all and any awards that are available for such terrific
work. Please continue to find the time to continue to make your site
the best on the web.
Finally, I was over to Tom Herman's in Guelph a couple of weeks ago
and met a man "Peter" who had just come back from Greece
and had met you. Sorry I've forgotten his last name. He said he was
working up an article that you might use on your site about the
differences of keeping cichlids in Greece vs North America. He very
much enjoyed talking with you and your knowledge of the hobby. It is
a small world.
I'd better go for now. Always look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Dale
It fills my soul with grief to
know that I am not going to hear from Dale any more. I would like to
point your interest to some of his photos of Aulonocara
baenschi and Pundamilia
nyererei. I feel that Dale will always communicate with us
through these photos. On
October 19th I received a message with the following paragraph from
Stacey Pautler, Dale's daughter : My
family and I want to thank you for the excitement and honour that
you
have gave my father with all your correspondence and the posting of
his
fine examples of these species of fish, which I gladly take into my
own
care. He had expressed many a time a desire to someday meet
you in
person. We know he would want to wish you all the best in the
future as
you continue on with the passion he shared in common with you.
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