Since I veiwed the pic's and the answer by THE Unmack, I took a look at my
pair of wanamensis and found that my fish fit Peter's description, ie: fins
rays growing more in the posterior. The male that I have is displaying an
emerald green posterior and the last rays of his anal fin totally abut the
bottom of his caudal fin...............
The female that I have also displays an elongated situation in the anal fin,
and while it doesn't reach the anterior rays of the caudal (bottom of)
fin...she has the clearly elongated rays of the breed of _wanamensis_ that I
look for.........
Rainbow's forever!
BG Granier
----- Original Message -----
From: <PETER.UNMACK at ASU.Edu>
To: <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [RML] Wanamensis photos and questions
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote:
>
> > I've just posted three pictures of the adult G. wanamensis male that I
have, and
> > I'd like to get some feedback from people who know what a pure
wanamensis is
> > supposed to look like.
>
> You should calibrate your monitor as they are very dark on mine which is
> moderately well calibrated. I'd guess you're doing this on a mac as mac
> images always tend to look darker on pc (I'm viewing them on a hp unix
box).
>
> Based on their anal fins they are not wanams. The posterial rays should
> progressively get longer.
>
> The other thing worth checking is the pattern of scales above and just
behind
> the pectoral fins. You'd have to see the diagram in the 1980 rainbow book
by
> Allen and Cross.
>
> Cheers
> Peter
>