Rainbowfish ID needed

[Haggisman]

Ok does anyone know what these 2 rainbows on the right are(I have 3 in total).Also in the pic is a very large neon dwarf rainbow.They sometimes change colour with a dark stripe appearing along thier sides and thier fins get very red.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/p19979307100c734779c2268ed78351c1/faf1e607.jpg

Any ideas??

[yashinfan]

Praecox Rainbow: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=21&pCatId=1059

looks like the one in the bottom left.

The shape and fins look like Axelrodi Rainbow:
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=21&pCatId=1050

but they are not the same colour or size.. hmm...

[Haggisman]

Yeah I know what the one on the left is(precox/dwarf).

But I think you might be right about them unknown ones being axelrodi, the lfs said they were a color morph of a blue kind so that could be them.Oh and as for the size, that is a very large dwarf rainbow on the left and the other kind are just babies;)

[MrGoodbytes]

The one you are trying to ID looks to me like a cross between a Melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi (type that 5 times fast :p) and some other fish. I looked at all the pictures on the Home of the Rainbowfish website but I couldn't put my finger on just one species. I tried going by the few black lines on the bottom of your fish but there are a lot of Melanotaenia species with stripes.
These are some fish I thought might work:

http://members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/herbaxe_NA.jpg
Melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi

http://members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/M_splendida_Daintree_GS.jpg
Melanotaenia splendida splendida

http://members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/trifas_Goyder_GS.jpg
Melanotaenia trifasciata

That's just what I think, HTH,
Graeme

[Haggisman]

I think they are a colour morph of the top one or bottom one.The lfs had the latin name but I was in a hurry and I forgot it.They were labled as "pidgeon blood"(the morph name).

I'll see how they look when they grow a bit.