Fish Id- "rice Fish"? Moonlight Medaka Or Killifish Mystery

Tokis-Phoenix · May 31, 2011

On the 16th of May my new 150gallon tank arrived, but the equipment i ordered for it only arrived recently and the filter was missing its media so i can't start up the tank properly yet (just been concentrating on drilling holes for the pipes & electrics, cleaning the tank & sand etc recently). But i should have the filter media by the end of this week and from that point on i can start moving my fish over.

Anyhoo, when i was at my LFS last week i saw some very unusual & attractive fish in a tank that i had never seen before- they were labelled "Japanese Blue Fountain Fish" but the name didn't ring any bells. But i was very interested in them so i went back home and started doing some research. I quickly released the name was false and that the main fish were actually "Rice Fish" of the Moonlight Medaka variety, which are small peaceful tropical community fish.

But while the Moonlight Medaka's in the LFS tank are now identified, there were some other fish in the tank which looked almost exactly like the Moonlight Medaka's but had more extravagent finnage- they were silver bodied like the Moonlight's but had colourful tails edit: the tails did have two red lines on the outer edges each.. They literally looked like a more fancy version of the Moonlight Medaka's.
So i'm absolutely certain these are some other variety of Rice Fish, but does anyone know what variety they could be?
I would really like to buy them but i want to know more about them first.

EDIT: It says in this article that Rice Fish are a type of Killifish, is this correct do you know? Could i be trying to identify some type of Killifish here?

http

/www.tropicalfish-scotland.com/fish.cfm?pid=1610

N0body Of The Goat · May 31, 2011

Perhaps these, http

/cgi.ebay.co.uk/Oryzias-woworae-NEWLY-IMPORTED-RICEFISH-RARE3cm-/280630189879?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item4156dcdf37 ? There are apparently some variants that look very similar.

Tokis-Phoenix · May 31, 2011

^ Ah thankyou so much they look just like the ones i saw in the LFS :good:

! Hmm... Oryzias woworae...I am gonna look into these

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They had some other killifish in the tank too which i am gonna try to ID another time when i get a better look at them (if they've still got them of course). It was a pretty assorted tank which now seems to have been full of different types of Medaka's/Killifish (even though they were all labelled "Japanese Blue Fountain Fish" some fish were clearly different types). Very pretty & interesting fish, i think i might get some of these

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Tokis-Phoenix · Jun 5, 2011

Well i went back to the LFS today and bought some Oryzias Woworae

! Got 9 of them right now acclimatising in my new 150gallon tank. There's only a common pleco & 6 clown plecos in the tank right now so they'll pretty much have the tank themselves for the next week :good:

! Really pretty fish, have got stunning sky blue eye's. Bought 2 massive plants today for the tank and have a big densely leaved fake plant in the tank, but will get some more plants at the weekend

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For anyone else who's interested in these fish, this is a good link

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"Stunning ricefish described from Indonesian island"
http

/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=3132

Well i hope they'll acclimatise well and survive the next couple of weeks. Got some different high nutrient foods to try out on them as the LFS imported them from Asia so they're probably a bit malnutritioned from all the travelling & stress etc.