{"id":1585,"date":"2012-12-07T04:20:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T04:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2012-12-07T04:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T04:20:58","slug":"shiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"shiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1586\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/thacbaensisfry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1586\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1586\" title=\"thacbaensisfry\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/thacbaensisfry-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Young Tanichthys thacbaensis\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/thacbaensisfry-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/thacbaensisfry-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/thacbaensisfry.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group of two-week-old T. thacbaensis f1<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Why would these tiny, bite-sized, fish be more brightly colored than their parents?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve now raised four species of minnow whose babies have a bright, eye-catching stripe that the parent lacks:\u00a0 three kinds of Tanichthys, and Danio choprae.<\/p>\n<p>It seems idiotic for something so tiny to be so conspicuous&#8230; they may as well swim around on little plates carrying little bottles of barbecue sauce.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a cue for schooling, because the Tanichthys fry don&#8217;t school until they grow up, lose the bright line, and assume adult coloration.<\/p>\n<p>My best guess is that it has to do with parental recognition.\u00a0 Almost every kind of minnow will cheerfully devour its offspring; Tanichthys is unique in that parents and fry can coexist without any intergenerational cannibalism.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t account for Danio choprae, though &#8212; they eat their eggs and fry just like any other danio, so maybe something else is going on there.<\/p>\n<p>This post serves as a note to self:\u00a0 I need to get some albino T. albonubes and see if their fry lack the blue stripe, and if so, if that affects parental predation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would these tiny, bite-sized, fish be more brightly colored than their parents?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve now raised four species of minnow whose babies have a bright, eye-catching stripe that the parent lacks:\u00a0 three kinds of Tanichthys, and Danio choprae. It seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}