Help identifying from my poor written description!!

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emmz

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Ok, I have no photos currently but I desperately need to identify two fish that will be with me tomorrow.
The urgency is that I need to make sure the fish are compatible with the ones that are already with me...

So here goes......Im really sorry, but Im describing these purely from memory.

Fish Number 1.
small (about 2 inches in length) fairly petite looking and slender
silver and blue kind of stripey ( stripes run in horizontal streaks along the body)

Fish Number 2.
Small but slightly bigger than the above..approx 2.5 inches in length
Oval shaped, flat in body mass
sort of a pearly pale pink colour


I cant think of anything else :dive:
Sorry
Any ideas from those poor descriptions???
 
Number two?

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Rosey red flathead minnow
 
Hi dorkfish - no, its not that one...its not a very fleshy fish and its a lot more oval in shape and sort of a little bit see through (i think its just cos the pink is so pale) - thanks though :)

Twig - that looks very very similar. Im tempted to say that it may be the one....it has more stripes but is very similar - maybe its a tetra species??
Thanks :)
 
Your striped fish is quite possible a zebra danio. They get up to 2 inches.
4-6 iridescent blue stripes alternating with white/yellow stripes. Fins are generally clear to slightly yellow/green. the belly is generally white.
 
I am guessing zebra danio and perhaps a juvenile pink convict.
 
BINGO!!! thats it - a zebra danio - i just looked up a photo of one
THANK YOU!!!! :)

ill just check the other ....a pink convict?? are you pulling my leg or is that really a fish??
 
Ok....just looked up pics of pink convict ....there was one photo in particular that looked pretty identical to the fish Im talking about (it was an albino variety)...maybe its that one?

The other pics of pink convicts were completely different....it may be a juvenile then? Its been in the tank for about a year...when would it flourish into an adult?

Thanks for the info :)
 
emmz said:
BINGO!!! thats it - a zebra danio - i just looked up a photo of one
THANK YOU!!!! :)

ill just check the other ....a pink convict?? are you pulling my leg or is that really a fish??
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Albino/leucistic form of regular convict cichlids.
 
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