A Fish I Was Not Expecting

[mhancock]

I bought some new fish from my LFS but noticed a tiny fry in the bag when I got home! Any ideas what it is please?

It is only just under a cm long so in an incubation tank because at the moment my Angels keep eyeing it up as dinner....

Thanks,


Mark

 

[Fishy friend2]

What fish were housed in the same tank with it? It looks more like a guppy or Molly fry. But it could easily be something else. But it definitely looks like a livebearer fry

 

[mhancock]

Thanks for the quick reply!

It was when I got Angels and Glowlight Tetra, but the store does stock Mollys and Guppys. I wondered if it was a Harlequin?


M

 

[Fishy friend2]

Definitely not a harlequin, we the mollies and guppies black or partially black? If ao then it could be a fry of one of those. Do you think you can enlarge the pic?

 

[mhancock]

Will try another pic tomorrow!

Thanks,

M

 

[Jay-93]

Pretty sure it's a Panda Platy.

 

[Fishy friend2]

Hmmm, panda platies are another good guess, now I think tat they are most likely guppies or panda platies as the fry looks similar to both, I automatically thought it was a guppy because I recently owned one that looked similar to that one

 

[phoenix2081]

I have a mollie that looks just like that but yellow. Maybe one of them? Or a Platie. My guess

 

[henriko]

just looking at the pic thats a male guppy

 

[AshleyT]

Looks like a female guppy

 

[phoenixgsd]

looks like a male guppy to me

 

[soybean]

Guppy.

 

[Akasha72]

I'd say guppy too. Livebearers don't determine their sex for a good 2-3 months so it could be male or female

 

[Fishy friend2]

the picture isn't big, or clear enough to clearly to the anal fin to determine the gender of the fish, so we dont know whether or not its a male or female.
just a reminder everyone
we cant determine the sex of the guppy by color, the male guppy I posted had some females in the tank with much more color than he did, so just because half of the body is black or a solid, bright color doesnt mean it is necessarily a a male guppy

 

[zuulan]

Congrats on getting a FREE fish.