New Fish!

We went shopping this afternoon, and as we had to pass the garden centre that has a Maidenhead Aquatics inside, we called in. There are a few fish on my list entitled 'fish I will get if ever I see them', and they had a fish on the list.
The chap said a few of them had a missing eye (he reckoned it was the dwarf chain loaches in the same tank though mine have never attacked any of my fish) so he'd try and not give me one of those. He checked the 6 in the bag, realised he'd caught a one-eyed fish, so rather than try and take it out, he caught another and gave me the one-eyed fish free.

Here they are, still in the bag acclimating.



Danio tinwini.

Ignore the two endler fry sneaking in the photo on the left 

I've only had them a couple of hours, so I can't be sure but I think the three you can see best are females. They are quite big and have paler spots than the other four, which are quite slim. So I think I have 3 females, 4 males (including one-eye).
Once they've settled in I'll be able to tell better. They are currently swimming in a huddle behind a plant, typical for new fish. That's why I took the photo while they were still in the bag 

Hi Sue

What stunners, hope you manage to find all the fish on your wish list!! Just gone a shade of green!

Looking for more yellow fish? 

They are more gold than yellow, but depending on how the light catches them they can look yellowy gold. One common name is gold ring danio. The males have more vivid spots on their fins than the females, and some of the males have very thin orange line round the fin edges.
Fishbase doesn't have much info on them at all, merely that males reach 2.2cm standard length and females 2.5cm SL (that's the length without the tail fin). Seriously fish has more: 20 to 30mm adult size, pH 6.5 to 7.5, hardness 18 to 90ppm (GH 1 to 5 german^o ).

I'm still deciding how I'll enter them in the new CC. They aren't in there; Peter can't be expected to have every fish in the aquarium trade in his database, so I'll have to substitute something else. Maybe Danio choprae (though the database spells it choprai) and enter 5 as they are bigger than tinwinis.

Hi Sue,
I could not resist posting...
Marvellous fish! I have a school of them living with me for quite a long time now. They are more golden than yellow, I agree. Mine live together with Burmese Rosy Loaches (the ones which still have no proper scientific name and often are sold under fictitious name Tuberoschistura arakanensis or – arguably more suitable name of Yunnanilus sp.) and with a group of Caridina Tumida and Venusta. All are doing great and get on well. To my experience, Tinwinis are very long lived – I did not have any problem with them ever. All of these fish/shrimps are enjoying the same conditions and I have my “Burmese” tank (I do like to arrange my aquariums geographically!). Arguably, the Tumida/Venusta shrimps are currently being wild caught in Southern China, but their habitat is reportedly much wider...
Chucklett,
If you want yellow fish, you could look at Pseudomungil Gertrudae. They are surprisingly yellow. I have a few in my husband’s aquarium – all females and they are rather yellow. Here’s the link to You Tube(not mine, somebody else’s aquarium): #Invalid YouTube Link include https#
I also have cute little Microdevario Kubotai in my husband’s tank and they look superb. The tank has DayLight fluorescent tube supplemented with “part time” additional white LED light. The spectrum of your light will show off or “mute” certain colours. To my opinion, the closer the light is to natural light, the more vivid and true the colours are (fish and plants). Those light tubes allegedly “better for plants” (with pink or even purple tint to them – higher “colour temperature”) never work for me... nor they make any difference to my plants in comparison with the light between 6000 to 7000 Kelvin...
I also have Lake Tebera Rainbows in my main tank and true to their nature of rainbowfish, they change their colours from yellow through to orange, than red, than almost black – depending on their mood... I suspect mine have been hybridized as their yellow is not that bright but their orange stage compensates for that! I am not going to breed them and spread hybrids anyway, so I love them as they are...

Hi Chucklett,
I meant to say thank you to your and Murf’s posts some time ago – when I mentioned my problems. I am not quite out of the “danger zone” (one thing comes after another!) but I am trying to get back to normal. Yes, I understood that your neon Green Rasboras were Microdevario Kubotai – the same fish. I remember that old post when SteveS tried to explain Kelvins and such... One word of “worry” from my side – do not rush with the full LED “thingy” as yet when you have plants. I have read tons about it and so far I personally would not be in a hurry to use only LED’s for plants. I am waiting for the LED technology to progress... T5’s are the light of choice at the moment.  Combination of the two – fluorescent and LED – works fine (my husband’s tank proves it). This tank has exactly one T8 and an LED strip. This combination works really well – a little bit of shimmer effect, natural colours and the plants are doing great.  I know the Kelvins are confusing...  Everything which says “daylight” is good, to my opinion. I am not sure about “advertising” of some Companies on the Forum but if you want, I can PM you the details of an online retailer you can buy your bulbs from – much cheaper than branded aquarium bulbs, they do the job just fine...
I was surprised how much yellow Pseudomugil Gertrudae are – with just daylight bulbs they look superb.
I know we got somewhat aside the initial topic of Danios Tinwinis... Sorry, Sue... I would like to repeat though – they are an absolutely delightful fish.

Sorry Sue!    

I vowed not to let it happen again, but lighting seems to be rearing its head again! 

Helen, Natalia - I've started a new thread (equipment) to reply. I dont want to hijack Sues lovely fish photos!      

Natalia - It never rains but it pours. I sure hope things start looking up for you very soon. Stay strong