Can Anyone Id This Fish?

[frida]

Hello there!

Seems like a long time since I've been on this forum. Life got in the way but for anyone who remembers me, my tank cycled before Christmas I currently have 2 honey gourami, 5 green neon tetra, 4 pygmy corydoras, 2 cherry shrimp and 3 zebra snails.

However, when I bought my pygmy corydoras (this was about 1 month ago), I noticed there was a tiny tiny fish (about 5mm in length) that had probably gotten into the net by accident when I got my fish from the fish shop. I put it into the tank anyway, although I was worried that the gouramis would end up having a tasty meal...

I hadn't seen this fish for ages so assumed that it was eaten (oh noes )until the other day I found it swimming around. It's grown quite a bit now. It doesn't have barbels, seems to have a totally different profile and also seems to have a orange and black dorsal fin which is making me think it's not a pygmy corydora... So what is it? It's difficult to take pictures as it's still small and moves around a lot (also my camera skills aren't amazing!) but here are some of the best photos I could get:

Can anyone ID this fish? Will I have to remove it from my tank??

 

[challdog]

noyou're right, it's definately not a corydoras
looks to me like some sort of live-bearer fry
like a guppy/molly...

personally i'd try and fish him out and put him in a little tank to nurture him to grow

but he should be okay in that tank, seeing as he's still alive


keep us all posted with photos, it'll be easier to identify as it gets bigger

good luck little fish!


just a note:
if you decide to try and move him, try once a day for about 5 mins, until you finally get him.
dont chase him around all day because it'll stress him out... and he's only small

 

[MBOU]

might be just me but its face looks a little more 'killi fish like' than livebearer?

Its a cute wee thing!

 

[frida]

noyou're right, it's definately not a corydoras
looks to me like some sort of live-bearer fry
like a guppy/molly...

personally i'd try and fish him out and put him in a little tank to nurture him to grow

but he should be okay in that tank, seeing as he's still alive


keep us all posted with photos, it'll be easier to identify as it gets bigger

good luck little fish!


just a note:
if you decide to try and move him, try once a day for about 5 mins, until you finally get him.
dont chase him around all day because it'll stress him out... and he's only small

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I was thinking of a little tank too. Maybe this is a good excuse to get one - I should probably invest in a quarantine tank anyway!
I'll keep you posted as it develops!

might be just me but its face looks a little more 'killi fish like' than livebearer?

Its a cute wee thing!

I really have no idea... I've never seen fry other than zebra ones so I haven't got a clue. I'm just hoping someone can recognise it!

It is really cute tho! I keep on checking up on it.

 

[Davo86]

could it be one of the dwarf rasboras sp.

 

[AmazonFTW]

My first thought was a very oddly coloured Endler's Livebearer, maybe a hybrid with a Guppy?

AmazonFTW

 

[SP3KTR]

yeah. it looks like a molly to me.

 

[This Old Spouse]

Not a molly. But does look like some kind of guppy/endler cross?

 

[trianglekitty]

I have no idea what he is besides cute, but I love the gouarmi lurking in the first photo!

 

[frida]

Thanks for the replies everyone! I'll be curious to see what it develops into. I'll be posting pictures again once it's a bit bigger

 

[Hoppo]

When you picked up your cories, was there any other type of fish in the tank with them? That might help in IDing him. I know my LFS have 2-3 different types of fish in a tank together.

 

[Mikaila31]

I guess Heterandria formosa

 

[frida]

When you picked up your cories, was there any other type of fish in the tank with them? That might help in IDing him. I know my LFS have 2-3 different types of fish in a tank together.

That's the thing... I can't remember seeing anything else in that tank. I might visit again one of these days and have a look.

I guess Heterandria formosa

I think this is it! It definitely looks like it Fantastic!

 

[This Old Spouse]

Good call!!