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rainbow shiner

Started by Guest_jim graham_* , Jan 13 2009 07:57 AM

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#1 Guest_jim graham_*

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 07:57 AM

Charley Grimes was up to my place this weekend and he took a few pictures of some of my fish.

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#2 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 08:30 AM

Charley pulls through again, he captured those colors that have no words to describe them accurately.

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#3 Guest_jblaylock_*

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 10:09 AM

unreal.........

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#4 Guest_jim graham_*

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 10:28 AM

Charley pulls through again, he captured those colors that have no words to describe them accurately.

Ths last picture is redlip shiners from NC.

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#5 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 10:39 AM

Ths last picture is redlip shiners from NC.

But of course... more Hydrophlox who almost look normal compared to the rainbows that everyone is probably fixated on.

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#6 Guest_Casper Cox_*

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 11:28 AM

spectacular.
jim you are doing everything right. i only see those kind of colors in a stream nest.
which area did these rainbows come from?

what are you feeding?
what is your water temp?
what is your light situation?

i have noted that even in the same nest the rainbows will have different levels of colors and patterns on them. they do not all look the same. there is variation.

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#7 Guest_jim graham_*

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 02:46 PM

spectacular.
jim you are doing everything right. i only see those kind of colors in a stream nest.
which area did these rainbows come from?

what are you feeding?
what is your water temp?
what is your light situation?

i have noted that even in the same nest the rainbows will have different levels of colors and patterns on them. they do not all look the same. there is variation.

Casper,
I'm pretty sure they came from Collinsville. They are in the cool half of my fish house so they are at 66 year round and they just get room light. They get mostly HBH soft and moist with krill pellets and soft and moist with krill pellets from Kensfish.com. I think it's mostly about the temperature as they have been in good color for six months.

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#8 Guest_scott361_*

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 04:03 PM

Drool..Drool!

Absolutely gorgeous!
I sure hope that mine look half as good at maturity.
Wow!
Scott

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#9 Guest_tricolor_*

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 07:28 AM

In my case happy males get lots of blue glittering over the body and fins that can be meven more readily seen from above. They seem to be able to spawn well in this color. When in fireball mode [or-y spawning] the body color of both males and willing females turn violet and the dark body stripe turn more or less silver [pics with and without flash]. What about other people's cases?

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#10 Guest_tricolor_*

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Posted 31 January 2009 - 02:09 PM

I would like to add that mature male rainbows can lose some or even all the blue color to become pale fish with red on fins in inappropriate environment [too few fish, bad water, or frightened, etc]. On the other hand some of the red on the body can turn on after water change, males jousting, etc.

btw the 2nd pic is the one with no flash.

Edited by fundulus, 31 January 2009 - 03:38 PM.