Crossing Rainbows

[Colonel Mustard]

How big does a crossing rainbow fish grow?

 

[helterskelter]

How big does a crossing rainbow fish grow?

Never heared if it, or u on about crossing different species?
did a google searchwith nothing.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

yeah i had a look on the internet but found nothing so ill post some pictures and hope ill get a result

thanks anyway

mustard

 

[Lateral Line]

Look forward to the pictures. You have piqued my curiosity as well. I have never heard that name, and can't see how it could have arisen. That said, half of all "common names" are made up on the spot by shops that know no better.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Ill give it a shot but they seem to be very shy at the moment

 

[The-Wolf]

ah the infamous 'crossing rainbowfish' aka the royal rainbow and regal rainbow
this is a generic term given to any Melanotaenia trifasciata that has been crossed with another species of Melanotaenia.

 

[helterskelter]

Found thissite with a stunning pic Is this it!!!!!!!

 

[stang1]

That is stunning!

 

[Lateral Line]

If they're hybrids, that could account for the common name, although they are usually more subtle then that. Royal and Regal I've not seen either. I am well aware of how easily many rainbow species hybridise, and several "species" are hybrids, Melanotaenia marcii and Melanotaenia greetii are such and were doing the rounds here last year.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Found thissite with a stunning pic Is this it!!!!!!!

no they don't look like that at the moment bu they are still young they are more red orange