This is not trying to sell my fish over someone else, I could care less. Anyone every here me say anything bad about Jeff Rapps? Nope!
It's this simple, there is no commerical fish collectors in these countries, you can not get small wild caught fish unless you collect them your self or know someone who did, I have been on 5 of the last 6 collecting trips to Honduras since 2004, Guess what Roc was not there. There was one collecting trip to Guatamala in 2007, most of the fish were conficated by US fish and Wildlife when they came back into the country because they did not have all the proper paperwork, I tried to get the fish back for them, but was not successful, I know all 4 people who went, guess what he was not there. The only place you can get wild RTM is the Rio Montague basin in southern Guatamala and northern Honduras. He has never been there and does not know anyone who has, I do. I can tell you every single time RTM were caught in the last 5 years, by whom and where they are now. And it's not in New England. No one has collected that region since May 2007 when we were last there, any wild RTM in the hobby are all 12" long by now. The only person in recent memory who has collected wild trimaculatum and grammodes was Dr. Michael Tobler last Feb and March in southern Mexico and they were all perserved for science. I saw Michael last weekend in Indianpolis, guess what, Roc was not there. I'm sure this guy has nice fish, I don't have a problem with him selling his fish, just calling fish wild caught when they were not. Every wild Central American fish in my hatchery has a specific collection location, I can tell you when they were caught and by whom. Roc whomever sold you these fish as wild caught, took you man. Ken
