Is this a Gold Tetra or Silver Tip Tetra?

[Jag1980]

When I first bought my group of labeled Gold Tetra They all looked pretty much like this body shape and solid in gold color:

These are my fish in these 4 pictures below:

This is a silver tip Tetra here:

What type of Tetra are my fish?
My largest one shown in picture s about 2 1/4" long, very tall and very flat bodied and are about 4 years old. I have always fed them TetraCichlid Mini Granules and they go crazy for it.
Could this food have made there body shape different from what they are suppose to look like?

 

[Snakes]

Do They Match the Following:

The Gold Tetra is a peaceful, hardy little amazon school fish, with a highly reflective silver body and a black spot on the tailfin base. Over the silver background there is usually a gold or copper powderlike coloration (thus the name), which is believed to be caused by internal parasites.

 

[jaylin]

Your fish do not look like silver tips to me. Silver tips maintain their torpedo like body shape - your guys look a little rounder. I've never had golds, so I can't say for sure but if that's what they were labled, that's probably what they are.

 

[Jag1980]

All the golds I see in the pet stores have the same body shape as the Neon Tetras but in a gold color, same with the fish I got now when I first bought them. As you can see now, they look nothing like that at all.
I'm trying to figure out why they are so much different from what they are suppose to look like, and from how they looked originally when I first got them.

 

[sageautumn]

I don't know, but that's exactly what mine look like... straight down to the almost red near the tail and fins. Mine are supposed to be gold tetras, too... if that helps? They were also labeled that way.

 

[gmh]

Those are Gold Tetras. They are plumper and bigger than neons.

 

[Riiz]

Looks like you have silver tetras, I have golds and they look just like your first pic, and they glitter like they are gold flaked.

Silver tetra - Ctenobrycon spilurus

 

[wataugachicken]

Do They Match the Following:

The Gold Tetra is a peaceful, hardy little amazon school fish, with a highly reflective silver body and a black spot on the tailfin base. Over the silver background there is usually a gold or copper powderlike coloration (thus the name), which is believed to be caused by internal parasites.

Where did you get that? Do you have a link?



Internal parasites?

 

[jm1212]

those are silver tips. gold tetras are what they say: gold. their scales are very reflective, much more so then the fish you have.

 

[gmh]

Gold tetras can vary in color and iridescence and can change in coloration as they age. I do believe I read somewhere as well that there are internal parasite's of some sort that contribute to this.