A male would chase females as well as other males. Only persistent females elicited spawning behavior from the territorial male. Katula describes the spawning act as head to head, upright spawning in midwater. Feeding commenced soon afterward and included live brine shrimp nauplii after 16 days. We have not yet completed our meristic and morphometric studies of larvae set to us by Katula.
More detailed analyses are currently underway.
Our preliminary inspection of our samples suggests similar steep mortality rates between age classes. So far, we have not found fish older than 36 months, using June as month one. Kerns reports a variety of other growth measurements, some of which differentiate between sexes. More detailed studies are currently underway. Literature Cited Anderson, C. P., J. E. Erickson, J. Ross, and J. C. Underhill.