Thread: redder tails?
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Old 12-14-2004, 05:55 PM   #27
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I wonder if their (FW stripers) diet consists of larger numbers of mysid shrimp or copepods with higher canthaxanthincontent (whether direct or indirect through smaller baitfish gut contents).

But this reddening of the caudal fin occurs post-mortem, right?
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