The tail is light brownish-orange. Females are smaller and duller, with normal, small, shiner fins with a little black in them, and a tan anal fin. A black stripe runs horizontally down the center of the fish. In males, the dorsal and anal fins are bluish, and sometimes there is some red at the base of the tail. The fish we caught here were rather striking because, instead of blue, the anal fins were pink, and there was a bright pinkish red at the base of the tail.
Females have no fin colors.
These little killifish are peaceful in nature. We spent several hours here catching numerous N. hypselopterus and a few L. goodei . We put the fish in plastic bags, which were then filled with oxygen from a cylinder we brought along. The bags were put in styrofoam containers and we returned to Tallahassee to spend the night. The smaller ones impressed me because their sides were covered with large gold spots.