Common name/s: White Cloud Mountain Minnow.

Scientific name: Tanichthys albonubes

Family: Cyprinidae

Origin: White Cloud Mountains in China.

Maximum size: 1.5" or smaller.

Care: It can be kept in cool conditions, as low as 16C/60F, and some people keep them outside during summer months. Fishes that have been kept in outdoor pools over summer have more colour than the indoor fish due to the abundance of natural foods, from insect larve to algae. It can also be kept at the lower end of the tropical scale.

Feeding: They will accept most commercial foods but relish live and frozen foods.

Sexing and Breeding: Males are slimmer and have more intense colouration than females. Often you can separate a pair to spawn, however, some prefer the fish to shoal spawn so the females aren't stressed as much. They are egg scatterers that will readily breed and left to their own devices in a well-planted tank they will quickly multiply. However, they show no brood care.

Comments: A wonderfully colourful little fish. When kept in groups you can often see them flaring there fins and showing off those magnificent colours. A great little community fish kept with other small peaceful fish.

also available in a golden variety and a long finned variety which is often called the Meteor Minnow

Pictures of my White clouds:












This post has been edited by Qays: Jun 1 2006, 05:53 PM