Steve
Michael Eckardt wrote:
>
> As a newcomer to rainbows, I have a couple of quick questions for the list:
>
> 1. Is there a website with the accumulated e-mail of this list?
> 2. Although I loath "common" names, sometimes that's all I can get from my
> LFS. They have a beautiful fish, appropriately named a "Yellow Rainbow", and
> I would like to find out what it REALLY is.
> It appears to be one of the M. trifasciata, perhaps from the Yirkalla
> river. Unfortunately, http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/new/tri-yirk.htm
> doesn't have a picture of the fish.
> The fish I am wondering about are yellow (POST-IT yellow :-) ) above AND
> below the black central band. The dorsal and anal fins of the males(?) are
> bright neon-orange. The anal fin of the male is also fringed by a small line
> of black or brown. The shape is slightly less tall as other tri's I have
> seen, but then again these fish may not be full grown yet.
> The females are yellow, with perhaps a hint of washed out green. The
> dorsal has a touch of the orange at the base (unless this is a sexually
> immature male?). The anal fin is more rounded than the male's and devoid of
> colour.
> Unfortunately I cannot post/mail a picture of the animals.
> Anyone wanting to try this one?
>
> BTW, the LFS also has purple rainbows. These fish look identical in terms of
> shape, width of the black band, etc. Only their colour is purplish/bluish
> instead of yellow.
>
> Michael Eckardt
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