Singapore also labels bass wrong as well.
In the last three years, Singapore has the most missed ID'ing of bass just to boost sales. I know the history of the so called "kelrinos", but do they ever show Kelberi traits? Nope... Not one. Mono x orino I can see, but not Kelberi.
Pure bahias are bahias no matter what, but calling them wild is a different story.
The Arauguaia kels, lets see the parents of the babies that are around.
Hawaii we can release bass into our lakes and river and catch them in a year and call them wild....but do we? Not one bit.
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Every country has it's fair share of mislabeled fishes. Most LFS just label what the suppliers write on their order forms, most of our supply come from Tawian. Whatever they label, the LFS just writes. Bichirs in the US is always mislabeled. We had Azuls which turn out to be Pinimas, intermedia that turn out to be tems, but these were imported from reputable suppliers like Oliver. Even they have problems with IDing small bass. We are a country smaller then new york, u sure we got the most mis ID bass to boost sales? Just FIY, there are a lot of threads asking for ID of p bass in mfk. Nobody trusts their LFS to give a proper ID, not just in SG. Our LFS are not the only ones guilty of trying to boost sales with fancy names.
This is borrowed from Rons thread on his Kelrino
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?504355-Kelrino/page3
I believe spangles on the anal fin is a Kelberi trait isn't it? We haven't had any adults yet, so we still dunno how they will turn out. But this being a new hybrid, every fish will probably turn out different. To say that the breeder is just BSing us Have u met him? Been to his ponds? Seen his fishes? The fact is that being such a small country means we can easily find out and meet the breeder if we wanted. And some of us are friends with him.
I have to admit of LFS in SG calling their bahia WC when we actually know it's CB. But every country has it's rotten apples.
To see the parents of the Araguaia just follow this link
http://www.predatoryfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?9631-My-Golden-Army-Kelberi-Araguaia U can also follow the development of the fry from there.
And lastly abt our reservoirs. The Story goes like this, Our govt were the ones who release the p bass into our water systems. The reason was to control the population of other species like the Big Head Carp which was introduced earlier in the 70s. And Govts being govts didn't really care which species they were bringing in, orinos, mono, occels dun mean anything to them. So yes, we dun have pure p bass in our waters. Well, thats not true either, because there was one reservoir which was spared by the govt, but then some fly anglers decided they would like to try catching the biggest p bass species instead of the puny hybrids we already have. So a bunch of them pool their money and released the frys in that reservoir. The outcome, pure Tems and Tems only.
As for the anglers who label the fishes they bring home as wc, well technically they are not wrong even if I dun agree with them. But as mentioned, we dun export these fishes. Fishing is illegal in most of our waters, and the designated areas to fish are normally less then a 200m length of shore and only rod and lures are permitted. No boats allowed in any of the reservoirs. There is no one mass catching these fishes for the aquarium trade. At most some idiots trying to make a quick buck selling their catch to LFS which dunno better.
Now, I dun say that what I have said is 100% accurate, but I'm sure as hell its more accurate then where ever u are are getting ur info from. I live here man, and the only agenda I have is I love my country and half truth bashing isn't cool. You can as judgmental of us creating designer hybrids as much as you want, I dun really agree with it myself, but then again, flowers horns are also our creation and a huge success. Who am I to judge them.
Sorry for going so off topic.
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