Here's an identification puzzle for the list. A cichlid breeder is
listing something he calls Indian red fin rainbowfish. When I
inquired what it was, he replied:
Ya got me. I have no rainbow literature and know little about them. I bought
these from one of my African Cichlid breeding farms in FL and they just call
them "Indian Red Fins" They have been breeding them for years, the farm has
changed hands at least once and it's the only rainbow they carry. Maybe it is
an "Irian" and the name got mixed up thru the years? If you find out what
it is, let me know. It is a dwarf rainbow type, with a light metallic colored
body, with 4 or so pin stripe rows of reddish horizontal stripes with red fins.
My first thought was M.splendida australis (the red-finned variety
that used to be sold as M. mccullochi "red-fin"). So what do you
think?
John Caddy
Self Expressing Earth (SEE) <http://cgee.hamline.edu/see>
Center for Global Environmental Education
Hamline University
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Here's an identification puzzle for the list. A cichlid breeder is
listing something he calls Indian red fin rainbowfish. When I inquired
what it was, he replied:
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got me. I have no rainbow literature and know little about them. I
bought
these from one of my African Cichlid breeding farms in FL and they just
call
them "Indian Red Fins" They have been breeding them for years, the farm
has
changed hands at least once and it's the only rainbow they carry. Maybe
it is
an "Irian" and the name got mixed up thru the years? If you find out
what
it is, let me know. It is a dwarf rainbow type, with a light metallic
colored
body, with 4 or so pin stripe rows of reddish horizontal stripes with
red fins.
</fontfamily></paraindent>My first thought was M.splendida australis
(the red-finned variety that used to be sold as M. mccullochi
"red-fin"). So what do you think?
John Caddy
Self Expressing Earth (SEE) <<http://cgee.hamline.edu/see>
Center for Global Environmental Education
Hamline University
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