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chelaine  Big Fish Posts: 383 Kudos: 343 Votes: 78 Registered: 23-Jul-2005   | i currently in my 55 gallon am house 6 long-finned white skirt tetras, would black skirt tetras school along if i added 3 or so? *Chelle* I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious... |
 Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:38 |       |
Calilasseia    *Ultimate Fish Guru* Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003   | First off, previous post deleted because the tags were seriously broken and trying to edit them looked as if it was going to crash the server ... sigh ... Anyway, back to the topic in hand ... If my understanding is correct, they're the same species. Gymnocorymbus ternetzi has been saddled with dozens of common names in the aquarium hobby. The ones I've heard of include: Black Widow (the usual choice of name in the UK), Black Skirt, White Skirt, Petticoat Tetra, Blackamoor, Black Tetra, Butterfly Tetra, and I suspect there's a lot more to add to that list. Just a quick Google search on the scientific name above will throw up more of these in assorted articles, such as: This one ... This one ... This one ... And this one ... No doubt you'll come across more common names in your search. I gather the number of common names for this fish runs into double figures with ease in the English language alone, before you start adding up all the ones in Spanish, Portuguese (the official language of Brazil) and German among the main European languages that produce aquarium literature in quantity internationally. Throw in the Far Eastern names (Chinese, Japanese and Malay), plus the plethora of names that abound in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and you develop an appreciation for the universality and absence of ambiguity of taxonomic names very quickly ... No doubt you'll come across more common names in your search. I gather the number of common names for this fish runs into double figures with ease in the English language alone, before you start adding up all the ones in Spanish, Portuguese (the official language of Brazil) and German among the main European languages that produce aquarium literature in quantity internationally. Throw in the Far Eastern names (Chinese, Japanese and Malay), plus the plethora of names that abound in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and you develop an appreciation for the universality and absence of ambiguity of taxonomic names very quickly ... Oh yes, and of course we now have different colour varieties and finnage variations, which look set to add to the common name confusion over this fish even more ...  |
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| chelaine Big Fish Posts: 383 Kudos: 343 Votes: 78 Registered: 23-Jul-2005 | yeahhhhhhh... cali.. your posts are always like 18 paragraphs long...hahaha! ok i joke.. i promise i read the whole thing.. also... part of it is double posted.. not sure if you realize that....... anywho.. so you think they WOULD school together? *Chelle* I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious... |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:38 | |
| Calilasseia *Ultimate Fish Guru* Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003 | Well they're all the same species, so they'd definitely shoal together!  Just noticed the partial double post by the way ... grrr, stupid borked tags that wouldn't let me edit the original ... ]:| |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:38 | |
| chelaine Big Fish Posts: 383 Kudos: 343 Votes: 78 Registered: 23-Jul-2005 | awesome! thank ya sweetcheeks.. you're always there to answer my silly questions.. i swear you just follow each of my threads and comment.. haha! lifesaver! *Chelle* I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious... |
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