My Threadfin Rainbows

[Gill]

I love these Guys from MA (thanks Stang1)
They Have settle in Amazingly Quickly and then i went and bought another 20 of them, for 12quid as My LFS had them in and i got 7females.

These are pix of the MA ones.
The larger group are still small and do not show any colors yet.

 

[Shrimper]

Gill - Do you have every small fish possible? How many tanks do you have?

They look great, I'm undecided on what fish to get next for my community tank and these guys are moving up the list every time i see them. It wont be for a couple of months yet so as i've just started a new job and gone from weekly to monthly pay and am skint now. I'll have plenty of time to decide.

 

[Colin_T]

nice fish. looks like you have the New Guinea variety. They have more red in them compared to the Australian ones.
They will breed readily in the tank but the fry are tiny and need to be fed green water and infusoria for the first couple of weeks. Then they can go onto microworms and newly hatched brineshrimp.

 

[Gill]

Gill - Do you have every small fish possible? How many tanks do you have?

They look great, I'm undecided on what fish to get next for my community tank and these guys are moving up the list every time i see them. It wont be for a couple of months yet so as i've just started a new job and gone from weekly to monthly pay and am skint now. I'll have plenty of time to decide.

LOL I have a Fair few tanks (Just set up my 5*2 in the garden today)
Well I really Like Small fish and Big Fish and go thru phases of what i like to keep.
I am Contemplating the other small rainbows he has in ATM.
Forktails, Praecox and Getting in some more Gertrudes.

nice fish. looks like you have the New Guinea variety. They have more red in them compared to the Australian ones.
They will breed readily in the tank but the fry are tiny and need to be fed green water and infusoria for the first couple of weeks. Then they can go onto microworms and newly hatched brineshrimp.

Ahhh so there are different Varieties of them, I know there are a re few different Colors of them. but thought they were just color morphs.
They are Very Hardy fish and i have tried them in still water tanks. They loved it in the green water with the daphnia.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

beautiful pics as ever gill!

i love threadfins

 

[stang1]

Great pics as always and good to see they've settled in well!

 

[Colin_T]

Ahhh so there are different Varieties of them, I know there are a re few different Colors of them. but thought they were just color morphs.

The different colour forms are the same species but they occur in different areas. The New Guinea variety has more red in its fins and body.
Australia has a form in the Northern Territory that has a yellowish tinge but no red in it. The other Australian variety comes from north Queensland and has a small amount of red but not as much as the New Guinea type.

more info on rainbowfish can be found at angfa.org.au
or
http/members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/Melano.htm

 

[jennybugs]

Lovely fish! I am going for a couple of pseudomugil varieties for my next lot

 

[rchambers]

Great pics, I have 6 threadfins myself and they are brilliant fish, I love watching them display to each other

 

[Gill]

Ahhh so there are different Varieties of them, I know there are a re few different Colors of them. but thought they were just color morphs.

The different colour forms are the same species but they occur in different areas. The New Guinea variety has more red in its fins and body.
Australia has a form in the Northern Territory that has a yellowish tinge but no red in it. The other Australian variety comes from north Queensland and has a small amount of red but not as much as the New Guinea type.

more info on rainbowfish can be found at angfa.org.au
or
[URL="http/members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/Melano.htm"]http/members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/Melano.htm[/URL]

Thanks Jenny

I love the Yellow ones aswell, Have you ever seen the Blues and Green ones.

 

[jennybugs]

My lfs has quite a few varieties in and I have kept threadfins before and currently have dwarf neons and boesemanis too

 

[Gill]

My lfs has quite a few varieties in and I have kept threadfins before and currently have dwarf neons and boesemanis too

I Like the Dwarf Neons aswell.
Might think about adding some of them in the next tank.

 

[jennybugs]

They're great fish! Like torpedos when feeding time comes round I love the displaying they do and their colouring is stunning

 

[Gill]

They're great fish! Like torpedos when feeding time comes round I love the displaying they do and their colouring is stunning

Cool , def one to think about then.