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In a recent post of mine mentioning that abnorma's were on my short list of other milks I'd like to have Shannon B. basically said good luck in finding them, now when Shannon (who seems to own every Milk known to man says good luck I have to wonder)... a little searching gives conflicting info on their availability... easy to find and cheap... to hard to find... and of course many ads for abnorma's that give you pause because, well... that's not what they look like at all... so...

Does anyone work with them? Do I need to shorten my already short list of other Milks I'd like to have by taking abnorma's off it?

Answer's here or through PM's would be appreciated.

Gerry

LOL, dude.You will need to move them from your "short list" to your pipe dream list.

I only know of one single person in this entire country with them.I am not going to mention his name either cause he doesn't need to get flooded with e-mails from people.

From time to time you will see ads or whatever claiming to have abnorma but 10 out of 10 times they are bi-colored polyzona from Guatamala, that doesn't make them abnorma.

Anyway, good luck and if you find any please let me know cause I have been looking myself for abnorma.smithi,dixoni and micropholis for over 20 years.

L8r Shannon

p.s. here is a pic of one of the abnorma I used to own.Again, it wasn't really a abnorma but was what we thought they where 20 years ago.Turned out to be a poly like most do.
The closest I have come is a group I brought in from Denmark about 9-10 years ago but they turned out to be abnorma x honduransis.

That's a big 10-4!!

Yes, what are being "called" abnorma, and what really ARE genuine "abnorma" are two totally different things.

Remember Jim M's alleged "polyzona" from the mid 90's??..LOL!

These were probably abnorma x polyzona too, even though they seemed to key-out more like genuine abnorma as it was very tricky knowing exactly what was really what back in those days..LOL!

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Thanks to both of you for the replies... more or less what I was expecting... and yes I'm aware of the fact that real abnorma's are all but impossible to find... that's why I politely phrased my opinion on the few ads I've seen for them in my original post.

Gerry

Hi Gerry,
I got your email. I'm having trouble sending emails out, but receiving them just fine. Strange, I know.

Short answer to you question in your email: L. t. abnorma x L. t. honduransis.

-Dell

p.s.
I think you have my phone #, call if you like for the long answer.