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Liquid_Pyro

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Help identify these fish!

There are 4 types in the following pictures:

1) some type of tetra (I thought it may be a bloodfin, but I dont htink there is enough red in the fins)

2) resembles a pencil fish, they mostly stay near the bottom

3) type of gourami

4) also a gourami but probably a dwarf species

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Thanks!!

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Pics 1 & 2 are red tail rasboras.

I want to say pics 3 & 4 are SAE but I'm not 100% sure.

Pic 5 & 6 is a female Pearl Gourami.

Pic 7 looks like it might be a color morph of a moonlight gourami. Approximately how big is that gourami in pic 7? There is nothing in the pic with it to use as a reference for size.
 
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yep, red tailed rasboras (borapetensis), scissortail rasbora (top of pic2), SAE, pearl gourami & a washed out honey is my guess too

you can tell tetras by the small adipose fin between dorsal & tail, rasboras don't have 1.

red tail rasboras are very nice underappreciated shoalers, females don't have red or not much, sometimes yellowish
 
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Hey wow thanks for the awesome responses, I knew about the siccortails, as I owned those already, all the other fish I am just holding for a friend, but just wanted to learn a little about them while I had them. Can the red tails be bred fairly easily? compared to say zebra danios or something?

The fish in pic seven is about the same size as the rasbora's, in other words no bigger than 2 or 2.5 inches.

I am posting a few more pics of the pearls, as now I am cuious about sex's, I think I have 2 females (I only have 2 pearls), but as you can see one has more of a golden chin while the other is just a silvery color....

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As for the gouramis, it's hard to tell a little with out actually seeing the fish for me, but it looks as it the (going from the pics underneath the SEA'S the top pic is a girl, the 2nd pic is a boy. You can tell by the pointed dorsal and anal fins :)

Female- http://www.google.com/imgres?q=pear...tbnh=126&tbnw=168&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:18

Male- http://www.afishytale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/pearl-gourami-20080610_2.jpg

Here are some similiar washed out honeys http://www.fishpondinfo.com/honey.jpg
 
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Liquid_Pyro said:
Hey wow thanks for the awesome responses, I knew about the siccortails, as I owned those already, all the other fish I am just holding for a friend, but just wanted to learn a little about them while I had them. Can the red tails be bred fairly easily? compared to say zebra danios or something?

The fish in pic seven is about the same size as the rasbora's, in other words no bigger than 2 or 2.5 inches.

I am posting a few more pics of the pearls, as now I am cuious about sex's, I think I have 2 females (I only have 2 pearls), but as you can see one has more of a golden chin while the other is just a silvery color....
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From what I've read the procedure for breeding them is pretty typical of what you would use to breed glowlight tetras (which I know you already have some experience with). Might as well give it shot if you can & see what happens ;)
 
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dani_starr said:
As for the gouramis, it's hard to tell a little with out actually seeing the fish for me, but it looks as it the (going from the pics underneath the SEA'S the top pic is a girl, the 2nd pic is a boy. You can tell by the pointed dorsal and anal fins :)

Female- http://www.google.com/imgres?q=pear...tbnh=126&tbnw=168&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:18

Male- http://www.afishytale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/pearl-gourami-20080610_2.jpg

Here are some similiar washed out honeys http://www.fishpondinfo.com/honey.jpg
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My male doesn't have fins anything like your picture in the link though, they both have very similar fins its just the color thats really different between the two.

Thanks for all the help everyone,
 
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