This would definitly have to be nipped in the bud by a dealer, for example,
to strongly warn against doing..... What Ray says, illustrates "the best" of
how attractive these fish cal appear. Another nice feature i liked on mine
was his very visable dark bands on his body, especially displayed during
feeding time!
Rob C.
>From: "R. W. Wolff" <choupiqu_at_wctc.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- Beware the green sunfish
>Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:00:17 -0600
>
>I have had some awesome colored green sunfish. I gave them the title "
>blue
>phase green sunfish" because they retained or developed more blues and
>other
>colors as they matured. These were just spetacular fish out of the same
>areas as the normal and melanistic forms came from. I have a melanistic
>green right now, which was very brightly colored when small. He is not as
>melanistic as some I have had, but well covered it what looks like fine
>ground pepper. The blue phases would have blue spots in the membranes
>between the rays of the soft fins, and every scale was turquoise, not just
>a
>dot, but the entire scale , making the fish more blue than the ground color
>of green. Like Rob mentioned about his, the fin trim was more gaudy than
>the
>typical fish as well. I was hoping through selective breeding I could get a
>melanistic form with the blue spots. That would be the closest to a Dempsy
>you could get, but gave up on playing doctor Frankenstien. I remember
>reading about a xanthic ( gold with black eyes, rather than white with pink
>eyes when albino) form developed in Texas for stocking ponds, but can not
>find anymore information on them. That would be a neat pet as well.
>Ray
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