identifying a fish

"Liisa Sarakontu" wrote in message
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"McEve" wrote in :

I found a fish in a LFS that I've never seen before, and unfortunately
they didn't have too much information about them,

I hope you didn't buy them yet. When you see nice but totally unknown fish
in a pet shop, the right way is to look at them (and perhaps reserve
them),
go home and get all possible info about them. And after that, IF they
prove
to be suitable for your home tank, go back and buy them. But never buy
first, ask questions then.

this is generally a good advice, but I have 4 tanks with different setup, so
I knew I would be able to fit them in one of them, and - when the LFS
doesn't know the name of the fish, it's kinda hard to do the research first
:-)


http://public.questus.dyndns.org/newfish.html

Good pics. This is a threadfin (Iriatherina werneri), although the fins
look weird to me. I haven't seen this kind of fins before, they look too
"thready". Normally the fin rays are more connected to each others like
he
http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/iri-wern.htm

I think this might be the correct fish, even though I agree with your
observation about the fins. The ones I have actully look like they have 5
fins - first dorsal round and smallish, the other 4 following where there
shouldn't be any fins, but where this one has 4. As there are 3 males, and
all are the same I don't hink it's a matter of the fins being split by
disease or nipping either.


Anyway, a small, nice fish even for a community tank. Rather fragile and
doesn't get along with bullying fish, doesn't like wrong kind (very soft
or
dirty) of water

Liisa



Looks like they're in a tank with the right setup according to the link :-)

Thanks Lisa!