I have had this beautiful for a month or more now but still fail to identify its breed.I have taken care of it the way most cyprinids are cared for because it has a cyprinid look, I'm assuming its from that family.However, I need a zoom down on its species to fully understand its needs.Apologies for the headless shot by the way, it swims fast.
http://sg.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/laurenzooveree/detail?.dir=/a472scd&.dnm=f087scd.jpg&.src=ph
2007-05-21 16:59:32 · 15 answers · asked by Laurenzo O 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Nope, no extra dorsal finnage, just really long and majestic dorsal and adipose fins.
2007-05-21 17:19:20 · update #1
Slightly wider of a torso perhaps than the common barbs
2007-05-21 17:34:26 · update #2
Thats the problem, the fish seem to consist of the characteristics of different breeds.I have reared many species of different fish and believe me when I say MANY but I have never come across this..Hopefully someone would have a clue soon.
2007-05-21 17:43:20 · update #3
Its about 3 inches at the moment by the way and its dorsal and anal fins are really long and sometimes, it spreads them further like a peacock.
2007-05-21 17:45:57 · update #4
I'm taking a wild swing the fins are wrong for rainbow fish, but if the colouration is not a reflection of something it's pink and blue, and im leaning towards a bitterling the only problem i have is ive never seen that colouration on the anal fin, however, i've seen many different patternings on them. so i'll go with bitterling and continue searching for a picture that does it justice.
In the meantime is this the colouring?
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dbitterling%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fp_ip%3DUK%26fr%3Dyfp-t-501%26b%3D281&w=252&h=165&imgurl=www.kawachi.zaq.ne.jp%2Fdpbva000%2Fkids%2Fk%2Fk0-01.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kawachi.zaq.ne.jp%2Fdpbva000%2Fkids%2Fkids02e.html&size=3.4kB&name=k0-01.jpg&p=bitterling&type=jpeg&no=291&tt=372&oid=c6d3791749f4758e&ei=UTF-8
AJ
2007-05-29 16:59:15 · answer #1 · answered by andyjh_uk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The depth of the body and fin length make this look more like some type of rainbowfish.
If it's got an adipose, that would seem to put it into the characins - what's the total length (including tail)?
I'm not seeing an actual adipose in the photos - did you mean anal fin? An adipose is a "fatty" fin without rays behind the dorsal.
2007-05-21 17:09:25 · answer #2 · answered by copperhead 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There must be a pocket sized e book as you have defined which you will take alongside with you which ones might provide help to become conscious of via an illustrated image the species of fish which you seize, i might try a good bookstall which contain Waterstones, or possibly even the library, then earlier you're taking the e book returned you ought to photocopy the proper pages. i don't have that hardship regrettably, as a results of fact the place I fish on my community stretch of the Bridgewater Canal, all I ever seem to seize is bloody perch!
2016-11-04 23:07:00 · answer #3 · answered by boddie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rainbow
2007-05-25 00:00:13 · answer #4 · answered by keninani k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree as well, it's head and body look like a rainbow fish, hard to see what colors it has though. Here's a few links to compare the shape, size, and colors to:
http://www.elmersaquarium.com/10rainbowfish.htm
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scateg.cfm?pCatId=886
That back anal fin though looks like it could be some sort of tetra though....like a black skirt tetra or a bleeding heart tetra
http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/characin.htm
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2007-05-21 17:26:51 · answer #5 · answered by tikitiki 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to suggest a Bitterling of some type. Probably a Rhodeus sp but possibly an Acheilognathus sp.
It looks very similar to some of the colorations seen on R. ocellatus but enough different to make me question that it's that particular species.
MM
2007-05-22 17:27:32 · answer #6 · answered by magicman116 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It looks alot like a rainbow to me too. Does it have a double dorsal fin? Most (all?) rainbows have two dorsal fins.
2007-05-21 17:17:12 · answer #7 · answered by yoink 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It Looks Like A Rainbow fish to me also!
2007-05-28 04:33:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a rainbow fish. I can't really identify the fish because the picture is blury. Maybe taking another picture would help.
2007-05-29 11:37:26 · answer #9 · answered by Chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to me it looks like a combination of my australne reainbow fish and a childled but its hard to tell, did you take it to a fish store to see if they know, maybe try taking out some books from the library on fish thats where i found out what some of my rare ones are
2007-05-29 08:38:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋