RE: NANFA-- Muddminnows as a class fish

Chip Rinehart (crin_at_glassmaster.com)
Wed, 4 Dec 2002 08:00:14 -0500

Here are my links for pics and info:

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/umbridae.html

http://jonahsaquarium.com/picumbrapyg1.htm

http://www.cleo.ro/page17.htm

http://floridafisheries.com/images/fish-pic/umb-pyg.jpg

Chip R

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. W. Wolff [SMTP:choupiqu_at_wctc.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:24 AM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Muddminnows as a class fish
>
> > > [If swirls of olive and brown are interesting, yes.
> > > If SCREAMIN GREEN is a requirement, look
> > > elsewhere]
> > > 6b; Does it have an interesting shape?
> > > [The canidates best feature.
> > > http://www.thejump.net/id/central-mudminnow.htm]
>
> Ack, no wonder the mudminnow gets knocked, here are some links to better
> pictures.
>
> http://imc.lisd.k12.mi.us/minnow.html
>
> http://www.nativefish.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nativefish/gallery.pl?MODE=FISH_
> VI
> EW&ID=407
>
>
> The upper link is good at showing what a robust healthy mudminnow looks
> like, out of water.
>
> The bottom link, check out the bottom picture on that page. I am nearly
> positive this is the picture in Dr. David Schlesser's book " North
> American
> Natives for the Home Aquarium". That is really how the blue looks in the
> pelvic, anal and caudal fins. It is still hard to appreciate the gold ,
> green, and pink iridescent banding on the side , you have to see the real
> deal. The pictures color rendering are better in the book. The top two
> pictures on that page are some other good ones that are on other web pages
> quite often, luckily I found all these in one place The larger one in the
> top picture is a female and the lower smaller one is a male. The middle
> picture is a male, though he shows little coloration. You can tell this on
> these "uncolored up " fish by the larger anal fin. Another interesing
> thing
> is males have bumpy scales on the caudal peduncle when spawning. Why , I
> don't know.
>
> Ray
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