aaronus
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I'm trying to identify a couple fish. Would you like to help? 
I bought a couple fish today and don't know what they are. They came from Walmart and have been alive there for a month. They were shipped there with ghost shrimp, and, I believe, in colder water than tropical fish. There are two of them and Walmart didn't order them. They were accidentally there. I took them to a pet store but didn't get any help.
The biggest one is about an inch and a half. It is grayish white with a prominent black stripe in the middle, a partial strip on the back of the belly, and a fainter stripe on the top. They are slim like pencilfish. The caudal is rounded, which is what confuses me the most. It might have a reflective spot on it's head (I shined my flashlight on it and it reflected at a spot on the top of the head, and nowhere else). The dorsal is about in the middle, just a little to the back. I looked through Axelrod's "Encyclopedia of Freshwater Aquarium Fish" and didn't find anything that matched perfectly. The closest is the blackstripe killifish, and the only problem is that mine seem to have the extra stripes. All the other fish that looked close had forked caudals, not rounded ones.
The mouth is round and it might be turned upward but I'm not sure.
I'm going to work on getting a picture uploaded. It's a bit hard since I don't have a digital camera.
Does anyone have a good idea of what my fish could be, or any suggestions? Thanks.
I bought a couple fish today and don't know what they are. They came from Walmart and have been alive there for a month. They were shipped there with ghost shrimp, and, I believe, in colder water than tropical fish. There are two of them and Walmart didn't order them. They were accidentally there. I took them to a pet store but didn't get any help.
The biggest one is about an inch and a half. It is grayish white with a prominent black stripe in the middle, a partial strip on the back of the belly, and a fainter stripe on the top. They are slim like pencilfish. The caudal is rounded, which is what confuses me the most. It might have a reflective spot on it's head (I shined my flashlight on it and it reflected at a spot on the top of the head, and nowhere else). The dorsal is about in the middle, just a little to the back. I looked through Axelrod's "Encyclopedia of Freshwater Aquarium Fish" and didn't find anything that matched perfectly. The closest is the blackstripe killifish, and the only problem is that mine seem to have the extra stripes. All the other fish that looked close had forked caudals, not rounded ones.
The mouth is round and it might be turned upward but I'm not sure.
I'm going to work on getting a picture uploaded. It's a bit hard since I don't have a digital camera.
Does anyone have a good idea of what my fish could be, or any suggestions? Thanks.
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