Hybrids and other "threats" to the hobby.

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Very well put. I agree it boils down to "trust" in the end....
 
Xilomaniac;2581767; said:
I'm getting a "parse error" whatever that is,..can you please show the link for a cut/paste? Would really like to read the article,..
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Me to.... Would like to read this.
 
i get this, Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '*' in /usr/www/users/jartigas/Cichlidroom/article.php on line 162.

was looking forward to that too.
 
Very good, thoughtful article. The problem isn't the existence of hybrids...but people acting irresponsibly/un-ethically. Education is the answer.

He really gets to the heart of recognizing that the cichlid hobby - and its clubs - are broad enough to include and respect people who like cichlids of all kinds: wild-type and man-developed/enhanced.

Bravo!
 
That page has been down for a little while. I think it's getting hammered with views. Excellent article. We have been in the thick of the hybrid/line bred discussion for months now. It really all boils down to the club educating and not dictating. The biggest threat to hobbyists IMHO is that a lot of fish that are sold as a particular pure species...is NOT. Look at all of the post of paratheraps stating "ID me."

Willem made a point on the ACA's site that was very interesting:

one of the points I make in the article is about trusting the information you get when acquiring new fish. I may have given the impression that false information usually comes from untrustworthy people. that doesn't need to be the case. I recently got a group of Theraps wesseli from a longtime German friend. he told me that they came from another (mutual) German friend who had collected them at the type locality. an article on the collecting trip was published in DATZ (a German aquarium magazine). so I was able to check it and see pictures of "my" fish as they were freshly collected. that was cool.
then, for another reason I contacted this second friend and told him I now had his fish. he surprised me by telling that they were not from this collecting trip but instead were bought at a Dutch LFS. the status of my wesseli group changed considerably. most likely they now are aquarium bred and not wild caught. unknown provenance for sure.

I have known these two German guys for ages. I know I can trust them. but still I got the wrong information. for me it only goes to show that keeping track of the provenance of fish is practically impossible.
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Here's the ad campaign I was suggesting for the club.

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dogofwar;2582135; said:
Very good, thoughtful article. The problem isn't the existence of hybrids...but people acting irresponsibly/un-ethically. Education is the answer.

He really gets to the heart of recognizing that the cichlid hobby - and its clubs - are broad enough to include and respect people who like cichlids of all kinds: wild-type and man-developed/enhanced.

Bravo!
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Well so far I agree with this. I would like to read the article but again... Link won't work.
 
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