Bill, they come through Ruinemans in Holland, yes. In the shop they were a bit paler, and not so colourful, but it was still possible to f.instance determine that they had red in the tail. And as far as I can tell my good fish-pusher 🙂 was also able to determine male and female.
But it is a good shop, and they do know how to take care of the fish, so usually the paroes look better here than in most other shops.
But the dark colouration did not come before after they had been released from the bag. It came quickly though which is a good sign to me that they are not overly stressed fish which has gone through many days of bad journey. And that they are probably quite healthy
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