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Stranger Fins: More fish mags from the 1980s and 90s

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Given Shane's great idea of posting Ginny Ecksteins awesome Ancistrus article in "Plecos: The article that started it all", I looked out a few blasts from the past.

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PFK July 88 p90
PFK July 88 p90
First off is from the July 1988 issue of PFK which has the UKs first
Brachyplatystoma tigrinum
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Yes, that's Mr ScotCat / @AJames entering a North American darter and for my money, the nicest fish in the show even given the cats.

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Around about the same time as the article in Shane's post, this was I think the first "proper" L-number to appear on the PFK cover but still a few years before l-numbers gained English language usage.

Note the exchange rate, £1.90 versus US$4.50!

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From the same issue, the NACG/CSG(UK)/CSG's Andy Duck and Trevor Morris winning national prizes with plecos. Yes, those really are their real-life signatures published for the nation! :-)

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CSG #1 1974.
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Cat Chat #1 and NACS #1
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All we need is a screenshot of catfish-l bb and the reminiscing is complete.
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Shane wrote: 02 Jun 2022, 21:18Cat Chat #1 and NACS #1
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Hi Shane,

What ever happened to the NACS?

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@Silurus
I still have Cat-L stuff buried deep and I'll find it. For now.. An e-mail between us 28 years old my friend.
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Lee Finley sending me the David Sands book. 1994?

Lee's trip to Brazil would be the first collection and breeding of a blind cave Ancistrus.

Erica is suggesting we all do a history of the catfish hobby for the next CatCon.

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@Shane, Is the Mary Power in Lee's letter "Mary Eleanor Power" of freshwater trophic structures biology? If so, she's right beside me now (well, about 60 minutes away).

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