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Sharon
11-19-2008, 01:19 AM
I took a few pics tonight...I liked how this one turned out!
Algenco
11-19-2008, 01:20 AM
Great pic!!
teach
11-19-2008, 02:22 AM
beautiful fish
mac
11-19-2008, 02:25 AM
Hi,
Beautiful Rainbow. Thanks for sharing them with us.

mac
Northernguy
11-19-2008, 05:51 AM
Thats an incredible shot Sharon!
Way to go!:19:
Lady Hobbs
11-19-2008, 01:53 PM
Lovely fish Sharon. Mine are not colored up nearly to that extend. However, mine are also younger and I hear it's in the age when they really color up nicely.
Sharon
11-19-2008, 02:29 PM
Thanks...they do improve with age...
Lady Hobbs
11-19-2008, 03:42 PM
Sharon, half the articles regarding rainbows say to use aquarium salt and half of them don't mention it at all. Do you use salt with your rainbows? I don't but some of the articles confuse me as to whether I should be or not. Some say "some" rainbows like salt but not which ones. Since I have Splendid, boesemanni's and turquoise I have used no salt.

Many of my splendid are still looking like this but the more mature ones now have red fins and red at the back of the fish.

Never mind with the salt question. Got my answer on the rainbow forum already. :)
Sharon
11-19-2008, 05:32 PM
I don't use salt in my tank, Lady Hobbs. Mine were basically a duller version of what they are now...they were never the colour of yours. Could we have a different type...Mine were labelled SPLENDIDA but that may not be correct, and I haven't actually researched.
cer
11-22-2008, 05:16 PM
That Fish Looks Great
mac
11-22-2008, 08:33 PM
The Rainbow in question for Sharon looks kind of like a Glossolepis Incisus. But the fins are not quite right.

But as for Lady Hobbs your's look like a Melanotaenia splendida fluviatilis

http://www.israquarium.co.il/FishPhoto/Melanotaenia%20splendida%20rubrostriata.jpg

mac
mac
11-22-2008, 08:36 PM
http://www.israquarium.co.il/FishPhoto/Glossolepis%20pseudoincisus.jpg

Sharon this one look's to me to be the closest looking to yours.

mac
Sharon
11-22-2008, 08:38 PM
It does! Thanks Mac...
mac
11-22-2008, 08:39 PM
Hi Sharon,

Here is the link to the fish you have,

http://www.israquarium.co.il/Fish/Rainbowfish/Glossolepis%20pseudoincisus.html

mac
Lady Hobbs
11-22-2008, 09:13 PM
LOL No wonder they don't look like mine! I wondered why mine are red and yours are orange! Wrong fish.

Here's the spendida.
http://members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/splendida.htm
mac
11-22-2008, 10:28 PM
Hi,
Man Hobbs your Rainbows are loverly. Are they easy t breed?

mac