RE: Re: [RML] Regarding the Rainbowfish Mailing List

peter.unmack at ASU.Edu
Wed, 12 Feb 1997 07:35:16 -0700 (MST)

On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Harro Hieronimus wrote:

> The red-finned blue-eyes now
> seem to stop breeding at a certain people when you normally would say "they
> are just getting adults".

They do mature pretty small, something like 15 mm. Also, I seem to
remember A. Tappin saying that he found the reproduction of this species
slowed in autumn. That was certainly what I found with my trio. I was
getting eggs regularly until towards the middle/end of summer.

Tootles

Peter J Unmack peter.unmack at asu.edu
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