Now that I think about it the brown mottling and the brown bands along the fin margins look exactly right for a red line. I didnt think of that-in-all, well because no where else were they red, except that lip smudge and the fine spots. I would have thought they would have had some red on their fines especially those two margins on the dorsal fin, but they didnt. There was the paired caudal spot though so I guess they just weren't in color. I am starting to think I had two species of fish now though ...hm....Thanks much Ranger Bob.
Matt Ashton
Caney River Drainage
Bob Culler <rangerbob-in-optidynamic.com> wrote:
At 07:46 PM 4/19/05 -0700, Matt wrote:
well something that stumped me because any of my choices I hadn't seen live before, I didn't know the accounts and exact ranges, and I was keeping things that weren't greensides for about a whole 2 seconds. At first I thought they were tippecanoes but after looking-in-some photos online tonight (my Tenn. book is in the office) I'm lead to think they are spotted darters. There nose was so pointed and it wasn't really the breast that was blue as much as it was the area right behind the operculum so I ruled out bluebreasts. Red spots along the sides and some dark margins on all fins. Some even had a vibrant red lower lip, so that really confused me.
The red lip sounds like male redline darters. They look like they are wearing lipstick! :) The first time I saw a female redline, I mistook it for a Tippecanoe, as well. I'm still not real sure I could separate the two.
Ranger Bob
rangerbob-in-optidynamic.com
Holston R. Drainage
Kingsport, TN
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<DIV><BR>Now that I think about it the brown mottling and the brown bands along the fin margins look exactly right for a red line. I didnt think of that-in-all, well because no where else were they red, except that lip smudge and the fine spots. I would have thought they would have had some red on their fines especially those two margins on the dorsal fin, but they didnt. There was the paired caudal spot though so I guess they just weren't in color. I am starting to think I had two species of fish now though ...hm....Thanks much Ranger Bob.</DIV>
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<DIV>Matt Ashton</DIV>
<DIV>Caney River Drainage</DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>Bob Culler <rangerbob-in-optidynamic.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">At 07:46 PM 4/19/05 -0700, Matt wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>well something that stumped me because any of my choices I hadn't seen live before, I didn't know the accounts and exact ranges, and I was keeping things that weren't greensides for about a whole 2 seconds. At first I thought they were tippecanoes but after looking-in-some photos online tonight (my Tenn. book is in the office) I'm lead to think they are spotted darters. There nose was so pointed and it wasn't really the breast that was blue as much as it was the area right behind the operculum so I ruled out bluebreasts. Red spots along the sides and some dark margins on all fins. Some even had a vibrant red lower lip, so that really confused me. <BR><BR><BR></B></I>The red lip sounds like male redline darters. They look like they are wearing lipstick! :) The first time I saw a female redline, I mistook it for a Tippecanoe, as well. I'm still not real sure I could separate the two.<BR><BR>
<DIV>Ranger Bob</DIV>
<DIV>rangerbob-in-optidynamic.com</DIV>
<DIV>Holston R. Drainage</DIV>
<DIV>Kingsport, TN</DIV>"The power of humans to degrade the natural world is awesome; the capability to reconstitute it later is mythical." </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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