I was about to ask about that beautiful rasbora, what a nice fish, I suppose they are obtained more frequently in USA.
Can I add anything to my planted community 52 gallon tank?
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I think they’re somewhat common, I haven’t seen them all that often here in Phoenix though. I have a friend in the fish business that got me some from his wholesaler.
Good to know how to tell paleatus albinos from aeneus, WYite. I was thinking subtle body shape differences but didn't look it up.
I had red tailed rasboras ~15 years ago, not uncommon then. They can almost look like white cloud mountain minnows to a quick casual glance. I see them once in a while, or did when we could shop. They're 1 of those underrated fish that should be more popular IMO
I had red tailed rasboras ~15 years ago, not uncommon then. They can almost look like white cloud mountain minnows to a quick casual glance. I see them once in a while, or did when we could shop. They're 1 of those underrated fish that should be more popular IMO
100% agree, I’m generally not into those type of fish, but love my brilliant rasbora
Excellent fish, I really liked it. I have never seen them in Mexico, although I have noticed that the dealers have fish with wrong names, they may have already been here under a different name, I guess the sellers handle so much fish that they don't bother to verify names.
Now that I think about it, I used to have orange-line rasboras. They had an orange iridescent line down the side like a glowlight tetra and were about the same size as the brilliant rasbora. I haven't seen them in years.
Found them. Also called redstripe or glowlight rasbora. Orange-line rasbora on Fishbase.
WYite
Wow WYite, that's a very interesting fish, I've never seen it before; As I said before, here it is not easy to find fish like these, I suppose they even arrive by mistake or as I mentioned earlier, with wrong names. My LFS has a couple of Rasboras cephalotaenia that arrived by mistake with black neon a couple of months ago, so mistakes always happen when it comes to packing and shipping fish.
I don't know now. I suspect it may be by region, depending on what shops and local big box stores can get from their wholesalers. For example, Cheyenne's only fish retailer is a Petco, and corporate only let's them buy from certain wholesalers. If those wholesalers don't deal in a certain fish species, then Petco can't get it. Mom-and-pop stores have the ability to order from a wider range of wholesalers, but may be limited by more financial issues such shipping costs or even fish costs due to limited cash flow. The old LFS in Cheyenne, before it closed, only stocked fish they could easily obtain at a reasonable cost and that they knew would sell easily, and those only from certain wholesalers. They would order fish for me from anywhere, but until they got to know me and knew that my word was good, I'd actually have to pay 50% of the cost of fish and shipping up front. It worked out well, for both of us, because during the two week period they kept the fish for quarantine other customers would see them, and they actually discovered additional species that they could keep regularly and that would sell. After a couple of years, they even started giving me a 5% discount on my next order if someone else would order a species I has ordered after they had seen it in the shop's QT tanks.
WYite
