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I agree it looks like he has scraped off a few scales. When startled, paradise fish can accidentally scrape against something and lose a scale. Just in case he came in with the start of ich - keep an eye out for the telltale salt crystal look on the body/fins. I doubt it's ich, but he could...

I had one. He was an ideal tankmate to variatus platys and cherry barbs until he hit 4". Then...he became a terror at night and wiped out several tankmates. They can be pretty shy, but others can be fairly friendly. Mine was friendly until about 4" when his new hobby became hiding and eating...

Unfortunately, I'm across the pond in the states...otherwise, I'd be there in a minute. Thanks, Eric

Thanks for the confirmation on the sex...I thought it was likely a "she", but I haven't seen a black paradisefish locally since I bought her early last year so I had nothing to compare her to. I think she has pretty nice finnage compared to the standard (blue/red) female paradisefish I've bred...

Can you post pictures? That would really help. My avatar is a black paradisefish that I've had for...I think close to a year. Hmmm...the avatar is small - does this work: He/she (I'm not sure...) can go from the color in the picture to nearly pure black when eating. Eric

Thanks everyone...he actually looks even better in person, but he is seriously camera shy. Eric

I just wanted to share an updated pic of my black paradise fish which has seriously matured over the past 6-8 months: Eric

I think 10 gallons is too small for both a paradise fish and a dwarf gourami. The DG will likely bully the paradise fish until one day you walk in and find the DG dead. Just my $.02 worth...it'd probably work in the 30 gallon tank, though, with good sight lines but you'd need to rearrange the...

How big was your tank? Paradise fish can be really different in temperament...some evil, some rather good citizens. 20 gallon and larger tanks, with lots of plants, seem to allow them to live together without problems in my experience...unless your paradise fish is a really evil #28###! That...

Pictures are almost essential...but there are now two of us (at least) willing to chime in when we see it. Any change? Could it just be a missing scale from either a fight with someone else or scraping up against a rock? Some paradise fish just have a small red spot or two on their sides, so...

That's a nice sized tank. Paradise fish vary greatly...much like cichlids, and some may take issue with a fancy guppy's long fins. That said, I've kept them with endlers, harlequin rasboras, cherry barbs, and variatus platy's in 20 gallon long tanks and 3' long 33 gallon tanks without any...

That's 7ish to 8 gallons, right? I think you'd be way overstocked. The cherry barbs would be fine, or the trio of honey gouramis might be OK if the tank is long enough (otherwise there could be aggression). 15 MTS = way too many snails in the long run for that small a tank. I'd either go...

In the pics you put in the quote, the bottom fish is P. dayi the spike tailed paradisefish. The two upper photos are of what is sold locally as a black paradisefish in my area (and also a city 45 miles away). He/she seems to match pictures in Horst and Linke's Labyrinth Fish...maybe my...

I just picked up one of these (I'm not sure if they're M. concolor anymore or M. spechti...can anyone clear that up?). Here is a pic of mine...might be a female, but it's still young and it's tail fin was pretty nipped up at the dealer (and is growing out): I love paradisefish...all of...

I've kept female bettas with paradisefish and with banded gouramis (C. fasciata). Come to think of it, I've also done it with dwarf gouramis. All of these set-ups were 20 longs are larger (20 long, 29 gallon, 33 gallon). I think the key is having a heavily decorated/planted tank (I have to...