Mystery Fish

[twinsmom]

I have a tank with neon tetras, guppies, mollies, a plec , a dwarf gouramie, and this thing tongue2.gif One of my female guppies had started dropping fry before she was moved to the nursery tank. 2 (atleast I thought they were) guppy fry hid in my plants for a long time, and I only just recently saw them. I was afraid to move them since they were in my main tank so long, so today when I checked on them I actually got a good look at this one, and it is not a guppy. I don't believe any other fish were pregnant, I nevery bought it, and if the other missing guppy fry is still hiding, where did he come from? I think he looks a little like my neons, just a different color. Any ideas? blink.gif

 

[Discus man]

it looks like a tetra of some sort black neon?

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Looks more like a cherry barb to me...only not cherry

 

[MissD]

I agree with Discus man...it definitely looks like a tetra, I just don't know which kind

 

[paige]

i think it looks like a kind of neon but i thought they could only be blue and red striped

xxx paige xxx

 

[paige]

ah is this it a black neon tetra i'll put a pic on that i found on gooogle

 

[Paul_MTS]

looks like a emperor tetra.

 

[Bloo]

Mmmm - perhaps a Juvi emporer then, as it just doesn't look like this one below....

 

[wrs]

at quick glance I thought an otto,

but I agree, it does look like an emporer tetras after looking at it more closely.

 

[Bloo]

And not sure it's a black neon either

 

[Paul_MTS]

notice the black line goes the whole length of the body where as on the neon it finishes at the head, it also has that pruple tint usually found on the emperor tetra.

 

[Bloo]

yeah you are right about that line that extends to the lip. So might well be a juvinile emperor tetra then.

 

[daudy_dojo]

looks like a emperor tetra.

i agree 100%

 

[The-Wolf]

although I'm not fully awake yet;
it looks like a pygmy cory to me.

 

[twinsmom]

Sorry, the purple-ish color is my crappy camera, he is definitely silver with that black stripe, what I can't figure out is where it came from? I didn't buy it, and there were to tiny baby fry in my tank for about 3 weeks, and now there is 1 guppy fry and that. Neon tetra's wouldn't have something that looked like that would they? BTW are those live bearer fish or egg layers, haven't gotten a chance to look that up yet.