Rhodostomus or bleheri?

[VoodooChild]

Anyone know for sure what the species name for rummy nosed tetras are. I remember when I first started to keep fish they were bleheri, then I saw rhodostomus being used quite a bit. Recently I saw Jack Wattley refering to them as bleheri. Any ideas? Thanks.

[wetmanNY]

There are three lookalike Rummynose Tetra species. Randy Carey www.characin.com used to have an article explaining the difference... he wrote about them in Aquarium Fish or TFH a couple of years back. He had a lot of trouble with petsforum his server last year and the html link to his article is still dead...

Do you know his site? A lot of it is gone, but his journal entries are well worth reading through.

Do this: run a www.google.com search " Randy+Carey Rummy-Nose Tetras " (cut n paste it). You'll pull up the article.

HTH!