> From: "Bruce Hansen" <bruceh at powerup.com.au>
> Reply-To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 21:59:22 +1000
> To: <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
> Subject: Re: [RML] Philypnodon sp (help)
>
> Dennis
>
> It is probably P. grandiceps - but by your description Butis butis is
> another possibility. They are both estuarine to fresh inhabitants.
>
> Purple Spots are esentially FW fish - males tend to be bigger, have bigger
> heads and bigger fins with more obvious points and more coloured spots.
> Regards,
> Bruce Hansen
> president at angfa.org.au
> Please visit us at http://www.angfa.org.au
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Holmes" <dhdesign at onthenet.com.au>
> To: <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 1:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [RML] Philypnodon sp (help)
>
>
>> Hi Ken he looks similar to a dwarf flathead pge 225 0f Australian native
>> fishes by Ray Leggett & john R. Merrick only my guy is grey and his eyes
>> face upward, he sticks to the side of the tank and has a huge mouth I've
>> seen him trying to swallow thing almost as big as he is (5cm)
>> I'm just trying to find (because I can't recall) what areas he would
>> habbitat so I can find him some mates.
>> Dennis
>> p,s do you know how to sex Purple spotted gudgeons - adspersa and are they
>> more fresh water
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