Lampeye tetras

[dwarfgourami]

I saw some in the shop just now and they were gorgeous.

Anyone kept them, how big do they grow, how difficult/sensitive are they in your eperience etc etc. The ones in the shop were tiny but of course that is nothing to go by.

 

[Lateral Line]

Lampeye Tetra is a common name, it has been used for a number of different fish, some of which are not tetras at all! Can you describe them or get a picture?

 

[dwarfgourami]

What I saw in the tank did look like tetras, but I suppose they might not be. Small grey fish, roughly the shape of neons but smaller, with a violet, neon-luminous patch round the eye. Should have looked more closely at things like tail shape, but I wasn't really there to buy fish, just got curious. Shame they didn't have a Latin name.

 

[The-Wolf]

possibly a Micropanchax macrophthalmus
lampeye panchax AKA normans lampeye AKA normans killifish

if it is then they are very sesnsative to the slightest trace of ammonia of nitrItes.
bi weekly water changes are essential to keep them happy and healthy.
Not recomended for beginers.

 

[Lateral Line]

I was wondering about the many Aplocheilichthys species which are all generally called "Lamp Eyed xxx" where xxx is whatever the shop made up on the spot. A. normani was one of my first guesses, I have not seen Normans called Micropanchax though.

There are other panchax groups which have bright eyes, and the various "blue eye" species from Indonesia.

Of course, the common Red-eyed Tetra, Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae is also called a lamp eyed tetra, as is the African characin Arnoldichthys spilopterus.

 

[dwarfgourami]

I think I saw a picture of the lampeye panchax on the net- but that one does look like a killifish doesn't it?

These did not at all look panchax-like; they didn't have the right body shape; they really did look like small tetras. Not the right colour for the red-eye tetra either, unless there is a purple variant.

I should have asked the man, but this was after I'd made clear that I wouldn't be spending any money- so I felt embarrassed.

 

[Lateral Line]

Diamond Head Neons? Real info, do they have an adipose fin?

 

[dwarfgourami]

Diamond Head Neons? Real info, do they have an adipose fin?

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No, not diamond head neon, these were all grey apart from that one spot of colour round the eye.

Stupidly, I didn't look carefully enough to check out the fins; I didn't realise at the time that lampeye tetra could cover such a multitude of sins.

 

[Insomniac]

At the lfs here, the lamp eye tetras are red eye tetras....

 

[dwarfgourami]

Gosh, this started off as an idle question, but I am getting totally intrigued now. I'm going to have to ring the man up.

 

[laurasmithuk]

if it is lampeye and they are the killifish type then they are very hard to keep. like the-wolf said they are extremly sensitive to ammonia and nitrItes

 

[Lateral Line]

>>> like wilder said

Wilder has not replied to this thread, and some of the fish frequently labelled as "killies" and thus difficult, are frankly easier in hard water then many tetras...

 

[BigC]

On the Killifish side of things, concerning Lampeyes. Again there are many different genus/species categorised as Lampeyes.

 

[@ombomb]

I have some "Lampeye Killifish" Aplocheilichthys normani.

Do yours look like this:

 

[Bloo]

I have some "Lampeye Killifish" Aplocheilichthys normani.

Do yours look like this:

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I saw these in my lfs just yesterday - they look lovely, but were't cheap at £3 each