Re: [RML] Hardyheads

peter.unmack at ASU.Edu
Wed, 21 May 1997 15:15:16 -0700 (MST)

On Wed, 21 May 1997, Adrian R. Tappin wrote:

> Some years ago I bred the common fly-speck hardyhead (with the name that
> hard to pronounce)

stercusmuscarum isn't really all that hard to pronounce. Just say it as
it is written. :-) Mind you, Scaturiginichthys isn't that hard either
but most people screw it up!

> and did find that the males were more colourful than the
> females - yellow colour & spots more intense (particularly at spawning

On what basis were you sexing them? Just fat ones vs skinny ones?

> it, apart from the fly-specked and blackmasts, the rest a pretty ordinary
> looking fish and are best used as bait for Barra ;-)

Yeah, not many rainbows go bright yellow. Really shitty looking fish
huh! I guess the yellow makes them easier for the barra to spot. :-)

Hooroo

Peter Unmack