These color-changing fish is generally as big as or quite a bit larger
than any male present in the tank. Males seem not to like spawning
with such big females.... Previously I thought only old females
change color, but the one that change color recently is as old as
other males and females in the group.
Tony
Bruce Stallsmith wrote:
>
> I don't know if it's normal or not, but any kind of sequential
> hermaphroditism in cyprinids is something that I don't recall ever hearing
> about. Maybe the females live long enough in captivity so that they enter
> such a phase?
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> along the balmy Tennessee
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
> >From: anutej-in-loxinfo.co.th
> >Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
> >To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
> >Subject: NANFA-L-- Big female red shiner turns red-blue
> >Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:51:11 +0700
> >
> >I had observed that some female red shiners I have grow big and change
> >their coloration from silvery to light bluish with reddish cap similar
> >to male [but less intense]. Is this normal in nature too?
> >
> >Tony
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