Can anyone identify this fish?

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Kannan Fodder

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A few months ago, I bought some water hyacinths from a local nursery for one of my fish ponds. Because the new plants had some long green moss stuck to their roots, I put them in a 5g bucket and gave them a thorough rinsing before putting them in the pond. I ended up with all manner of aquatic critters... Gammarus shrimp, snails, various worms, several leeches, and a baby fish I had first assumed was a goldfish.

I sorted out the gammarus because I wanted to put them in a nano tank, and I put the baby fish in the same tank. After a couple weeks, it became obvious it wasn't a goldfish. It's still very small, about a half inch, and tends to hide in the plants.

Can anyone identify it?

Thanks!
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Either a flying fox or a siamese algae eater...I'm leaning toward SAE because the stripe goes clear through the eye, but it should go through the tail as well, which it doesn't look like it does. Hard to tell from that pic though.
 
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It's Lucania goodei aka The Blue Finned Killifish. The eggs are commonly found in aquatic plants that come from Florida. The fins will be clear in juveniles and females. Males develop pretty blue fins as they mature.
 
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Need a closer pic, but does not look like a killifish. Pic/fish too small.
 
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I agree with narwhal on the Lucania goodie; my LFS gets these sometimes with plants and they look just like that. They turn into pretty little fish.
 
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Tanker, I've been trying to get a better pic. The little guy is amazingly shy.

Thanks for the replies. Wanted to identify it so I can appropriately care for it. Now I'm really looking forward to watching it mature!
 
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I'd lean more to the flying fox/ SAE than killifish as well
 
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Both the flying fox and SAE have a forked tail. The killie has a rounded tail with no fork whatsoever. Which type of tail does your fish have?

Mark
 
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