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We were discussing in the chat room a fish I'd read about but can't remember where. This question could best be answered by someone who keeps back issues of Aquarium Fish and TFH mags. There was a small article about a miniature or dwarf tetra that was (then) newly discovered. It had a bright blue body and a bright yellow caudal tail. Full grown it was only about 1/2" long. The body was shaped like that of a head and tail light tetra. There was a photo of a man holding one in the palm of his hand. It would have been in there in either 2003 or '04. It was my mag., I was reading it at work, and now I can't find it If any of you out there can help find this mystery fish I especially would be very greatful, and so would some of the other folks in the chat room.

29g - 5 Head and Tail Light Tetras, 1 Black Phantom Tetra, 1 melanistius cory, 1 Featherfin Synodontis, 1 otto
29g - 14 harlequin rasboras, 5 albino corys, 3 ottos
10g - 1 glowlight tetra, 2 Black phantom tetras, 1 red betta on entertainment center

Sorry, should have read before posting , grateful!

29g - 5 Head and Tail Light Tetras, 1 Black Phantom Tetra, 1 melanistius cory, 1 Featherfin Synodontis, 1 otto
29g - 14 harlequin rasboras, 5 albino corys, 3 ottos
10g - 1 glowlight tetra, 2 Black phantom tetras, 1 red betta on entertainment center

You found the ID of this fish?

Then TELL US !!!!


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Still haven't found it, sorry.

29g - 5 Head and Tail Light Tetras, 1 Black Phantom Tetra, 1 melanistius cory, 1 Featherfin Synodontis, 1 otto
29g - 14 harlequin rasboras, 5 albino corys, 3 ottos
10g - 1 glowlight tetra, 2 Black phantom tetras, 1 red betta on entertainment center

The central Sacramento library has copies of TFH for those years. When I get the chance, I'll take a look through them and try to find it for you. (You're sure it was 2003 or 2004?)

Yes, but now that I think about it, it could have been in Freshwater and Marine Aquarium also, sorry, I've slept since then and can't remember for sure.

29g - 5 Head and Tail Light Tetras, 1 Black Phantom Tetra, 1 melanistius cory, 1 Featherfin Synodontis, 1 otto
29g - 14 harlequin rasboras, 5 albino corys, 3 ottos
10g - 1 glowlight tetra, 2 Black phantom tetras, 1 red betta on entertainment center

Hmmph. I can't think of an accessible library that keeps back issues of FAMA. Anywa, I'll thumb through those issues of TFH next time I visit that library (although it may be a while). I'll also see if there's any Web index of those two magazines.

Well, today I lived up to my pledge and slogged through ALL the 2003 nd 2004 issues of TFH -- and, I'm sorry to say, didn't find your article. (I looked both through all the specialized articles and through every single regular monthly column on freshwater fish in the magazine.) So presumably you saw it in one of those other two fish magazines -- I'm about to see if they're indexed anywhere on the Web, although even if the article was there, there's no local library that gets those two mags.

I did find, in the Sept. 2003 "TFH", two items to interest Characin fans: a photo of the Red Arc Pencilfish in the "Interesting Imports" column that showed (completely accurately) its incredibly brilliant red color; and a beautiful photo of Neolebias ansorgii in the "Through a Small Window" column that showed why Calillaseia keeps rhapsodizing about it here -- a red fish with a broad, blazingly iridescent central stripe shading between blue and green. The author of that column also said that, while N. ansorgii is very hard to find, it's amazingly easy not only to keep but to BREED once you do get it -- a small, heavily planted tank with fairly clean soft water is apparently enough to encourage it to breed like a guppy. So if Cali ever does get hold of a few of them, maybe he can start his own Ansorgii factory...

Well, Aquarium Fish Magazine DOES have tables of contents for those issues, including both the article and column titles and a one-sentence description of the contents -- but the one article I could find that might conceivably fit your description was "Journey to the Putomayo" in the June 2003 issue.

As for FAMA: bizarrely, they allow you to read the current month's issue on the Web completely free of charge, but they DON'T seem to have any tables of contents for past issues. It turns out that the University of California-Davis library does have "FAMA" going back to 1978, but God knows when I'll be able to get over there again. When I do, I'll make one last attempt to find your article (if I have the time).