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Re: Shiner being called 'Rainbow Dace'




	The Blackbanded Sunfish had a full tag of $7.99 but their tail
fins had been nipped/shredded by the African Killifish that was in the
same tank so I got three for $5.00 each. I hope I can get them to thrive
... fingers crossed. 

Sajjad

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, robert a rice wrote:

> B;ackbandeds a cool fish . How much were they. The other is a red Shiner
> wich you can get here from several NFC members for just the cost of
> shipping........:)
> 
> 
> Robert Rice
> 
> Save A Native Eat An Oscar <:)((((<
> Check Out the Native Fish Conservancy at
> email  NFC at actwin_com   or  website  http:\\nativefish.interspeed.net\
> 
> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 21:20:31 -0500 (CDT) Sajjad Lateef <sajjad at uic_edu>
> writes:
> >Hi all,
> >	I went to the fish store today to see if they had any native 
> >fish. 
> >The had two species - the black-banded sunfish (babies - about 3/4" 
> >and
> >beautiful) and something they called a 'Rainbow Dace'. It looked to me
> >like it was a Shiner (looked so much like the fish pictured in 
> >baensch-1).
> >They were about 3 inches long, deep pink (almost red) fins and a
> >bluish/grayish body. Whatever it was ... it sure was pretty. 
> >
> >	Question is: Is there anything called a Rainbow Dace and if 
> >so,
> >does it look like a Shiner? (I ordered the Peterson's Guide from 
> >Amazon
> >and I should get it later this week or next week)
> >
> >Sajjad
> >--
> >Sajjad Lateef
> 	ICQ#13114451	http://www.eecs.uic.edu/~slateef/
> >sajjad at acm_org			30th Anniversary ACM @ UIC 
> >1967-1997
> >
> >
> 
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