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Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Identification => Topic started by: AndreaC on September 19, 2014, 04:48:19 AM

Title: The fish on the home page
Post by: AndreaC on September 19, 2014, 04:48:19 AM

Hi all :) purely out of curiosity, on the home page of this site up the top there is a banner and sometimes it shows a picture of a small purple fish with spots and red striped fins. It looks kind of like a tetra from it's body shape but I've never seen anything like it. Does anybody know what it is?

Title: Re: The fish on the home page
Post by: Mogwai on September 19, 2014, 06:04:59 AM

I think there is a male Celestial Pearl Danio in the pictures - does it look like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danio_margaritatus)?

Title: Re: The fish on the home page
Post by: Sue on September 19, 2014, 09:20:23 AM

It's here (http://www.thinkfish.co.uk/fish/galaxy-rasbora.html) too. It's in the fish profiles as both galaxy rasbora, the name it was given when it was first discovered in 2006, and celestial pearl danio, the name it was given once the taxonomists had been at work. You'll find it in the rasbora section of the fish profiles.

Title: Re: The fish on the home page
Post by: AndreaC on September 19, 2014, 09:30:33 AM

Awesome, thanks Sue :) They look like such cool fish!

Title: Re: The fish on the home page
Post by: Puffin on September 19, 2014, 05:15:03 PM

Like these?
They are very shy, unless it's feeding time!

Title: Re: The fish on the home page
Post by: AndreaC on September 20, 2014, 07:25:40 AM

Yup, just like those :) Gosh I'd actually really like to find some. Would they go okay with cherry shrimp?

Title: Re: The fish on the home page
Post by: Sue on September 20, 2014, 10:27:14 AM

They should do. I have cherry shrimp with the very similar sized Sundadanio axelrodi (http://www.thinkfish.co.uk/fish/axelrods-rasbora.html) and pygmy cories and my shrimp are breeding like guppies  ;D

Title: Re: The fish on the home page
Post by: dbaggie on September 20, 2014, 10:16:26 PM

Quote from: AndreaC on September 20, 2014, 07:25:40 AM

Yup, just like those :) Gosh I'd actually really like to find some. Would they go okay with cherry shrimp?

CPD's (as I like to call them - I think I'll trademark it...) are pretty small so you shouldn't have any problems with Cherry Shrimp. I have a group of them in with 2 Amano Shrimp and the largest Amano completely dwarfs the CPD's (although Amano's do get a bit bigger than Cherries in fairness).

Title: Re: The fish on the home page
Post by: AndreaC on September 21, 2014, 04:19:54 AM

Okay cool :) Lol I haven't even put fish into my first tank yet and I'm already planning my second  :o