> > Subject: NANFA-L-- Chrosomus firing up.

Mach Fukada (diapteron-in-hawaii.rr.com)
Sun, 4 Dec 2005 07:36:53 -1000

Mine never really get much season temp fluctuations and seem to spawn when
there are large weather changes (cold front moving in) or when I would have
a gout flare up.....

MTF

> > Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:42:21 -0500
> > From: "Crail, Todd" <tcrail-in-UTNet.UToledo.Edu>
> > Subject: NANFA-L-- Chrosomus firing up.
> >
> > Hi gang,
> >
> > My rainbow shiners are really showing the magenta
> > flecks, the females
> > look gravid and all of them are rooooosy. I can see
> > a little lateral purple
> > on the dominant males. How much pre-spawn flash
> > have they done for you folks
> > who've spawned them? Is this an indication of a
> > spawn, or are they just
> > feeling sassy and large? It's not like they got
> > cold or anything (just down to
> > 62 the last three weeks), so I'm not even sure the
> > eggs will work if they do.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to the color and photographs,
> > but not so much the
> > swan song they apparently sing a week later. Fort
> > Payne is a loooooooong
> > way from here.
> >
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