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Cichlid Jeans
09-19-2002, 10:31 PM
...to speak about his last collecting trip in Mexico. Interesting guy, and fascinating slides showing many undescribed species of swordtails and cichlids he collected. And Rusty brought a dozen or so bags of fish from that trip, most of them not yet available in the hobby, and presented them to the Brampton club to auction off.

I resisted of course. No, I lie. I got one of three bags of yellow labridens, six feisty dime-sized F1's from one of the pairs he caught wild. Here's a pic of an adult:
http://www.petsforum.com/cichlidroom/articles/a100/a077-19.jpg

I asked Rusty how he made a livelihood collecting fish. He suggested I rephrase my question as "How do you spend a livelihood collecting fish?" which he would gladly answer.
:mrgreen:

Rex Karr
09-21-2002, 08:16 AM
Must have been cool to meet him. I think he was at the ACA 2002 but I didn't see him. Got a pic of your Labridens? I can't blame you if you dont. I don't a have a single pic of my Americans.