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Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Identification => Topic started by: Originalspin on February 16, 2022, 08:26:45 PM
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Hi, just wondering if anyone can identify this tetra, im pretty sure he's a tetra from his looks and behaviour. He's about 2cm long and 4 years old so fully grown.
I got him in a bag of chain loaches and was told they had no idea and he was bycatch
Cheers
Dan
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Unusual colour. I’d say probably an old Ember Tetra, Hyphessobrycon amandae.
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That was my first thought too!
I compared him to the embers in the shop though and they just didnt look the same, shape wise or size, hes a tad bigger.
Also he was a pure bluey grey colour until he was about 2 years old then gradually started to develop the orange
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The smaller ones in the shop are a lot younger, and fish change shape slightly as they grow. It looks like a dead ringer for an old Ember Tetra if you google image them. The blue grey colour is what throws a spanner in he works.
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Just found this photo from 3 years ago, doesnt look very ember ish eh
And even then he was bigger than the very orange embers in the shop, thats why i discounted him being an ember
And ive just rembered about the black line going from head to tail too,
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Got me then. I see pictures on Facebook of so many new tetras, too many to remember them all. They might be able to ID it though...