Identification...?

[Fishalicious]

Well I never ever thought this day would come but I am stumped...

The wholesalers received a new load of fish and called me in to look at these guys... they don't know what they are and they were mixed in between the Neons. I'm afraid I couldn't help them either :confused: :confused:

The picture is not the best... but the red on the end of the tail is bright neon red like in denisonii barbs...

Has anyone here come across this fish?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/Cutsie1/whichfish.jpg

Many thanks for helping me hunt xxx

[angelcakes]

i think i may have seen these but can't put a name to them,but i think( i could be wrong) there some sort of neons?:help:

[siymdapolio]

They look like a type rasboras not Harlequin rasboars with those black triangles on them but the shape of the body is very similiar in body type but cannot find the colors like the picture you provided.

I could be completely off but the body shape looks like a some rasboras

[Fishalicious]

They do have similiarities with the Rasbora sp.cf.borapetensis & Rasbora kalbarensis but they are different these ones... they only have the one bright bright red stripe and underneath a black one

[Algenco]

I believe they are Bryconops melanurus, taillight tetra

[smaug]

I think algenco got it,I googled that and with the exception of the orange stripe it is a ringer.Jumping anchovy.

[Algenco]

can't beat Dr. Axlerods "Atlas of freshwater fishes"

[siymdapolio]

Yeah that it was i thought they looked similiar but had no idea.

Glad you got it angeleco I want your book! i only have an ok one by dick mills ... ets an eye witness handbook

[Algenco]

Info can be found here on AC

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/fish/taillighttetra.php

[smaug]

can't beat Dr. Axlerods "Atlas of freshwater fishes"
Thats the book I looked through,I saw that one as well,but without the orange stripe I didnt feel comfortable posting it.I do think you are correct though.

[Algenco]

page 280 pic #1 shows good colors
also p 282 #1

[smaug]

page 280 pic #1 shows good colors
also p 282 #1
whoops,I have axelrods other book Aquarium fishes of the world" 1018 pages.
pg 152 Is where I saw it.

[Algenco]

great book also, the "Atlas" has 1088 pages of pics, roughly 10,000

[smaug]

I love those big thick books,the internet will never replace them.

[Fishalicious]

I cannot find a piccie of the Bryconops melanurus anywhere on google.... and taillight tetra brings up the Head-and-taillight tetra (Hemigrammus ocellifer)

Help.... LOL

There is no line on the body... they are completely plain in the body - the only color is in the tail the red & black

[smaug]

http://gonewild.net/peru/117/117.html
here
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[Algenco]

I couldn't find a good one on the net, the pic I'm looking at show a very faint black streak along the latteral line and some black shading to the dorsal fin. This could be because the fish in my pic is in a planted tank and may have been there long enough to show it's true colors.
Body shape and mouth structure is identical to the pic you posted.

[Fishalicious]

Wow... could be... so hard to tell as there are no colors on the fish on that pic... this was the only pic I could find also <sniff, sniff>

[Fishalicious]

Do they have that brilliant bright red spot on their tail Algenco (neon red, denisonii red) ??

[smaug]

Im at a loss for it.They are dead ringers to the pic you have ,without the tail stripe.

[Fishalicious]

I've solved the mystery... haven't been able to sleep cause of it LOL

It is the Axelrodia stigmatias

Thanks everyone for thinking with me x