Any help ID’ing would be greatly appreciated. Came in as by-catch with Green Neon Tetra’s.
Mixed in for scale:
Mixed in for scale:
PFK lists Brazil as well (as do some other sources)think elachys is from southern South America, more Paraguay and Argentina so that puts it out of the question.
Unless you’re importing direct from a private collector, “by-catch” seems an unlikely term,Came in as by-catch with Green Neon Tetra’s.
Non-gold forms that ship into local shop (these appear more often than the gold version regardless of Fish List “guarantee) appear quite different than the photo fish ... but then it may also just be a “SA tetra”The one with the green stripe looks similar to hemigrammus rodwayi.
Unless you’re importing direct from a private collector, “by-catch” seems an unlikely term
So I wouldn’t place a lot of importance on this having been delivered in a P simulans shipment
Thanks to your thread I did see these lovely photos
Non-gold forms that ship into local shop (these appear more often than the gold version regardless of Fish List “guarantee) appear quite different than the photo fish ... but then it may also just be a “SA tetra”
They're great in they’re own right.
Not quiteProbably boring everyone to tears at this point
And it did remind me of the wonderful coincidence of Ivan Mikolji’s up coming book
http://www.acvariidevis.ro/apa-dulce/pesti/hemigrammus-vorderwinkleri/
it’s from the same area and looks very similar???