Help Identify Fish

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Hi,

Can anyone identify these 3 fish for me please.
Excuse the bad photos, i dont have a proper camera for it, but i hope you can guess what they might be.
TIA.


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1 - Aphyocharax Rathbuni (also sold as Aphyocharax Avary)
2 - Boehlkea Fredcochui - Cochu's Blue Tetra
3 - Brachydanio Albolineatus - Pearl Danio
 
Thanks!!
Now i know what fish i have :D

I actually asked for 5 blue tetras... and i got 2 green fire, 2 blue and 1 pearl.

Will the pearl danio be ok on it's own ?
 
1 - Aphyocharax Rathbuni (also sold as Aphyocharax Avary)
2 - Boehlkea Fredcochui - Cochu's Blue Tetra
3 - Brachydanio Albolineatus - Pearl Danio
1 & 2 I aggree
3 is almost correct
Danio Albolineatus (brachydanio is no longer a valid taxa :p )

I've never heard A.Rathbuni described as green fire tetras
I know them as Rathbuns' tetra or false bloodfin tetras, anyhoo nice fish :)

Will the pearl danio be ok on it's own ?

not really, the PD is a schooling fish and needs to be in a group of at least 5.
checkout my website for info on them and many other danio species
 
After looking at this post i checked out the green fire tetra and then saw the bloodfin tetra. They do look very similar, took me a while to find a difference.

The danio has been on his own for about 8 months now :( He's still swimming around a lot though.

The blue tetra's dont really have much to do with each other, but they have a weird habbit of staying still near the bottom of the tank (like dying fish do), then having sudden bursts of energy for the next few days flying around the tank (they're real active when feeding and zip around the tank! )

I have 2 of the green fire tetra's, one with the white fins and one without. The website i saw suggested this was male and other female, but no babies yet :(

My lfs has stopped selling the pearl danio's now. Would it do better with a different kind of danio ? Actually it hangs around with my harlequins a lot...
 

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