yep still got them I went to the store and looked at the silver tip tetras and they didn't look the same. and yep this thread gets revived every once in awhile when somebody thinks they know what it is. One of these days maybe we'll get it
Carol
Nope, Their not much bigger than neons and shaped about the same. the store owner I got them from had been in business for over twenty years and didn't know what they were. they came in with something he had ordered. they resemble several different fish then when I go look their different. They school with the neons and never bother anybody.
Carol
Nope, Their not much bigger than neons and shaped about the same. the store owner I got them from had been in business for over twenty years and didn't know what they were. they came in with something he had ordered. they resemble several different fish then when I go look their different. They school with the neons and never bother anybody.
Carol
I HAVE IT! They're the fish aliens! Hiding in your tank!
Oh.. do you have a current pic of the mystery fish?
The golden tetra is closest but there is no color on them at all except the spot on the caudal peduncle.
Carol
grrr.. thought i had it with the golden, went thru pics of what i thought was every tetra looking for any with black spots at that spot on the end of their body or middle of the tail fin.
new guess, glass tetra. If not long-finned characin, but I think it's a glass tetra.
btw: scientific name for glass tetra is Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae, it looks just like yours in the book "Simon&Schuster's Complete Guidt to Freshwater and Marine Aquarium Fishes.
are you sure they're not the radioactive mutant guppies that live in our sewers? I hearby name the mystery fish a new type of Tetra: "The Butterfly Tetra".
Ok, maybe this book has it wrong because it sure looks the same with the black mark and all. I'm going to visit my friend at one of my LFS's tomorrow I'll see what they have.
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Originally Posted by FLBettaCouple
are you sure they're not the radioactive mutant guppies that live in our sewers? I hearby name the mystery fish a new type of Tetra: "The Butterfly Tetra".
no unfortunately... that one has the spot all the way through the caudle fin. Mine just has the dot where the caudel peduncle and caudel fin begins.
Carol
no unfortunately... that one has the spot all the way through the caudle fin. Mine just has the dot where the caudel peduncle and caudel fin begins.
Carol
you know what? i think that little fish is just being uncooperative! :
lol.. maybe the little guy just likes being the first Butterfly Tetra. How many fish folks has he defied in his mystery-ness... what a stinker he is.. maybe he's a betta in disguise?
The spot looks much more alike now. Is that nearly it? I've about a dozen or so species left to look at (fishbase is going REALLY slow) but that's a pretty good match.
I would think that it is the gold tetra that FLbettacouple said, here is a less colorful picture of one: http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fres.../goldtetra.jpg
(sorry if the link doesn't work, don't know how to put them in)
I think that it could be a gold tetra. I read that their gold coloration is due to a skin parasite, so if they are bred in captivity they never get the gold coloration.
I went to the store and looked at the silver tip tetras and they didn't look the same. and yep this thread gets revived every once in awhile when somebody thinks they know what it is. One of these days maybe we'll get it 
grrr.. thought i had it with the golden, went thru pics of what i thought was every tetra looking for any with black spots at that spot on the end of their body or middle of the tail fin.
