mystery fish id please - Fish for the Planted Aquarium

wicca27 · 06-26-2009, 09:26 PM

i found this fish in one of my tanks outside and have no clue what it is or how it got there. any ideas on what it is i would love to have some more. http://161.photobucket.com/albums/t2...nt=tail032.jpg

Zapins · 06-27-2009, 05:27 AM

Looks like it might be a native fish. Where do you live?

Avi · 06-27-2009, 06:44 AM

My stab is that a native fish too...or more possibly some kind of rasbora that somehow came in with some live plants that you bought.

davemonkey · 06-27-2009, 07:04 AM

I think it's too young to tell. Maybe a young Dace or Shiner of some kind.

-Dave

dedariux · 06-28-2009, 08:06 PM

Looks like an otto (otocinculus affinis) a little bit to me.

hydrophyte · 06-28-2009, 11:55 PM

Looks like some little dace to me. It would probably look nice with several individuals in a little shoal. Have you had your tanks outside set up for very long? It might have come as an egg with some plants or substrate.

Darksome · 07-02-2009, 06:56 PM

It sort of looks like Heterandria formosa, the fins sort of throw me off though. I could be right, I could be wrong.

jmontee · 07-03-2009, 06:27 AM

It is a blue fin killifish. These fish are common in the breeding tanks here in florida nurseries. They will show up in big shipments of ghost shrimp too. I used to have a few of them but I got rid of them due to how aggressive they were with my shrimp.

Travis.808 · 07-09-2009, 07:42 PM

Sorry to hijack your thread I thought it was a thread for identifying fish. Anyway I'm wondering if anyone knows the scientific name for bachardi's or where to get a breakdown of these fish. Also I think jmontee is correct, I did a search on blue fin killifish looks like the one.