Which Tetra Is This Please?

[slbell]

Hi, hope someone can identify this fish from the best photo I could get? Shop said it was a green line tetra

TIA

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[Nick16]

looks like a stressed uncoloured black neon. if they are happy and well fed and healthy the black will be much darker m8. HTH

 

[slbell]

Extremely happy and have been that colour for the last 3 months when I bought them.

 

[Nick16]

what do you feed them?

 

[slbell]

If it helps the fish have no red in the top of the eyes like a black neon. Definately not a black neon as that was my first thought but possilby a very close variation?

Fed on live daphinia twice a week, tetra delica weekly, tetra pro colour (good stuff) and tetra prima the rest of the time.

 

[Nick16]

my mistake, looks like a silver tip tetra.

 

[murphyk32]

i dont believe it is a black neon, though extremely close so i am not sure.. try checking out silver tip tetras? google it and see.. only thing similar i could find in the few minutes i searched.

 

[slbell]

my mistake, looks like a silver tip tetra.

I would agree if it were not for the strong green neon line down the lateral line

 

[murphyk32]

only thing i would recommend is either find out from the place you got them from, or google tetras and check out sites/pictures and find the closest looking thing. i didnt look for very long but the silver tip was the closest of what i did see. just search it up i guess

 

[Lateral Line]

Johnny Jensen has a picture of a fish in his library here which resembles your fish a lot. Thing is, I'm not sure he has identified it correctly. I don't believe that to be H. heterohabdus.

My first thought when I looked at the picture was that it was H. hyanuary, but I looked at a few other pictures and am not convinced.

It doesn't have the prominent red colour above the eye, so I don't believe it to be a morph of H. herbertaxelrodi or H. metae. H vilmae doesn't really have any white in the fins which your fish clearly does. Astyanax kennedyi also is similar, but again, no white.

Hmmm....

 

[Nick16]

im pretty sure its a silver tip tetra.

 

[Lateral Line]

I can see why people are saying a SilverTip but I don't think so. The dark markings and the white in the fins looks about right, but that highlight along the lateral line simply doesn't.

 

[murphyk32]

yea i will agree the line makes it sketchy on being a silver tip... hmm

 

[slbell]

Sorry to be a pain but this is bugging me

I have done my best to capture some further photos, however as you know it's not easy catching a silver bullet!

Picasa web photos

 

[ALW]

Defo Not a Slivertip, Id also say it was a January

EDIT: Looks nothing like a Silvertip IMO