Candymancan

I got 4 of them a week ago, and i dont remember the names of them. I got them because they have a rainbow kind of look to them. However i noticed they also have whiskers on them too.

The fish im talking about is the one of the left by the heater with red fins

harpua2002

Looks like a bloodfin tetra to me. Nice fish!
http://www.fishlore.com/profile-bloodfintetra.htm

Nutter

+1

Candymancan

Im not sure it looks like that, the red in the pictures on that link is to bright. The red on my 4 fish are very faint looking.

Here are 2 more pics.. The fish are fast swimers they zig zag all over the tank, so its hard to get a good shot. As you can see in the bottom pic they have a red strip through the center of them also very faint.

Edit: well after looking on google i guess it is a blood fin etra altho why cant i see hardly any red on them ? The pics im looking at they have bright red fins mine are barely red at all.

Butterfly

Looks like Danio Roseus. Danios have barbels at the corners of the mouth.
Carol

Nutter

The bottom pic actually makes me reconsider them as Pearl Danios but they don't have red fins at all.

Fishes colours vary a great deal. It depends on how long they have been settled, (not long in your case), what they are fed, what the parents colours are like, what colour the substrate is, how bright the lighting is, what the water chemistry is, wether there are enough plants & hiding places to make them feel comfortable, if there is a large enough shoal to make them feel safe, wether they are being bullied or not. As you can see there are many variables. Tetras & Danios like dark substrates with lots of plants & they like large shoals. They shoal in hundreds & thousands in the wild so they won't feel very comfortable when there is only a few like you have. When they feel stress they will lost thier colour.

Butterfly

Definitely a Danio of some kind They look like the D. roseus I had at one time. They are gorgeous in large schools.
carol

harpua2002

+1, I googled it after you posted this and have to agree. The new pics definitely change my mind.

Candymancan

Yeap your right i checked online its a Danio Roseus thanks guys looks 100% like my fish. I got them because they have a really nice shiny rainbow color to them. I have 4 but i also have 4 PLaty's (2 micky mouse and 2 normal) and a bunch of other schooling fish so i dont think they will be stressed. On the good note seems the color is fine according to the pics i see online. Since it isnt a Bloodfin tetra

Butterfly

Glad we figured out what it was for you
Carol

Candymancan

Are these fish agressive ? I noticed they like to swim very fast in my tank, and chase other fish often. My Black neon tetra which is a "old" fish iv had for awhile and they chase him and he chases them often.

They also go crazy when i feed them i feed them once a day. I recently transplanted 2 neons from the 8 my mom had cause she killed them all by feeding her fish to much and poisoned the water. The 2 were fine for a day i checked on them 30 min ago and when i came back 1 was dead floating in the water half eatin and the other looks battlescarred.

Do these Danio's eat fish ? Are they agressive ? I might take those 4 out of my tank and give them back to the fish store i doubt the store would give me 4 fish of the same price so i probably wasted like $8 on them but i dunno they seem like nasty fish.

Treefork

Danio's are really fast swimmers and can be fin nippers but don't really eat other fish. (Unless it's something so small they can get it in their mouth but that's typical of many fish) Not typically aggressive either.

Butterfly

Danios need to be in a good size school. I would say 6 or more. They are really fast swimmers and need lots of top water room. Mine never paid attention to others, just their own kind. They will eat fry but that's about all. Their mouth is really small.
carol