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Hi Again,
Can someone Identify this tetra please.
Thanks BubbleLover

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My Fish like swimming all day long,
They love my bubbles 'pop' on their bum!
http://photos.yahoo.com/shedevil_90

That looks to be Hyphessobrycon rosaceus, often called the "Rosy tetra".

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

If those tail spots look cerise-coloured under certain lighting, it's DEFINITELY Hyphessobrycon rosaceus, which as Sirbokks has already said is known as the Rosy Tetra. Probably one of the best small Tetras you'll ever buy. Lively, perky, but peaceful, with easy to distinguish males and females (males have towering dorsals and long anal fins), pretty easy to persuade to spawn, relatively long lived, and in the right setting, these fishes become absolute jewels. VASTLY underrated, and when given live foods and colour food as juveniles to colour them up, they turn into stunning adults. You will go a long way to find a Tetra with as many redeeming virtues as this little beauty. Snap them up, put 12 of them in a shoal together, and watch them become prized and valued members of your aquarium fauna. I love them to pieces, but at the moment haven't room for them alongside my big Cardinal shoal AND 12 Panda Corys!


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Yes, I'd like to get some more. They do bring a nice colour to your tank.
BubbleLover

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My Fish like swimming all day long,
They love my bubbles 'pop' on their bum!
http://photos.yahoo.com/shedevil_90