Below are photos of immature male and female CNBG that I donated to Brian for his forage pond a couple of weeks ago. Brian took these pictures after transport and release into his pond.
I selected these two photos to show the characteristics that I choose for my pure strain of CNBG.
The male has the obvious copper bar on his nose, cream-colored tip tail fin, and 4-5 faint broad vertical bars. Broad vertical bars are also evident on the female.
Number of broad vertical bars is a critical marker, as well as cream tips on tail fin.
I am colorblind so color is not a criterion for my ID - colors change due to water and sunlight conditions as well as spawning periods.
Theses fish were caught from our pond with turbid water but the characteristics of pure CNBG are obvious – to me anyway….
Immature Male CNBG
Immature Female CNBG
