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[LisaJH]

Hi
I have taken over a tropical aquarium with 4 fish. I've worked out that one is a male mollie but not sure about the other 3. They're around 4cm long and are a raspberry red and black colour. Their body shape is not unlike a clown fish - kind of triangular! Any ideas?

 

[Wills]

Hi there welcome to the forum, I think the fish you are describing is a clown loach quite a common aquarium fish. Though due to its large size will eventually need a large tank of 5-6 foot. What size tank do you have? Is this your first tank or is this an other tank to your collection hope we can help you and feel free to ask lots of questions

Wills

 

[Curiosity101]

Red and black isn't a clown loach....

Could be a red tailed black shark, rainbow shark, some type of cichlid, bleeding heart tetra...

Serpae tetra, red phantom tetra and then I'm out of ideas.

 

[Wills]

hmm i was going on the triangle shape. But re thinking it rasberry red and black sounds like a black ruby barb?

 

[howard_hopkinson]

A couple of pics would help us to identify the fish.

 

[LisaJH]

Thanks guys, will put a pic on later....

Just had a quick look and they DO look like black ruby barbs. They have quite a dense colour and their tales are red. But it's certainly the nearest to what they look like! Cheers again

 

[Golden Goldfish Of LOLWUT]

i'm sure it's a black ruby barb


~ GGOL

 

[discus_lover]

welcome t our forum.any pictures.....