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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