Is It Size That Matters - Or What You Do With It That Counts?

[Ami]

Thought that would get your attention!


Whilst investigating big fish, I was also investigating the small and cute ones and found this:

It's a red-green dwarf puffer (Monotretus travancoricus), although there's currently a bit of debate going on as to whether the latin name is correct!

I think he's a cutie

What is the smallest fish/invert/mollusc etc you've had? Fry are only included if they're unusual or fry of a small species!

I'd love to see any pics you have and am sure others would too!

C'mon, y'know you wanna share

Ami

 

[Fella]

I can almost guarantee you they're called Carinotetraodon travancoricus.

All I ever keep are small fish (until I move out). I've got the smallest cichlids available (Neolamprologus multifasciatus), Dwarf Puffers, and bumblebee gobies. It doesn't get much smaller than that.

 

[Opcn]

Neaver heard em by monotretus, I've kept a few of them over the years too.

Male endlers life bearers are smaller however and I had some of them (pure blooded, not a guppy mutt)

 

[Ami]

I can almost guarantee you they're called Carinotetraodon travancoricus.

All I ever keep are small fish (until I move out). I've got the smallest cichlids available (Neolamprologus multifasciatus), Dwarf Puffers, and bumblebee gobies. It doesn't get much smaller than that.

I believe you!

Do you have any pics of your little cichlids or BBGs that you could show off? I would have had some off those but CFCs had gotten eaten before he passed the other gobies onto me.

Shame that, I was quite looking forward to having them!

Neaver heard em by monotretus, I've kept a few of them over the years too.

Male endlers life bearers are smaller however and I had some of them (pure blooded, not a guppy mutt)

Hi there Opcn! I take it you don't keep them anymore? Pity, would have liked to have seen pics of them as babies.

 

[OohFeeshy]

Umm, smallest species I've kept are probably various tetras, but if the stock list of Bridgemary proves correct and I get to go there, that will be updated to Pandaka Pygmaea/us ? , the dwarf pygmy goby, reaches a very max of 19mm, I beleive

 

[catxx]

19mm?? but you 'll barely be able to see it!!!

i've only been fishkeeping since august.
so my smallest are neon tetras. yay!

always pondering a dwarf puffer though, but i don't know if they'd be too small, whether i'd get annoyed that there'd be so much space in my 5 gallon around this tiny little fish.

hmmm!

 

[Ami]

Umm, smallest species I've kept are probably various tetras, but if the stock list of Bridgemary proves correct and I get to go there, that will be updated to Pandaka Pygmaea/us ? , the dwarf pygmy goby, reaches a very max of 19mm, I beleive

Wow! That's small. For goodness sake won't someone post a pic? They keep telling me about these cool fish but never let me see them!


"Dwarf Pygmy Goby (Pandaka pygmaea) is the shortest and lightest freshwater fish. It is a colorless and nearly transparent species found in the streams and lakes of Luzon in the Philippines. Males have an average length of 0.343" and weigh 0.00014-0.00018 oz."

I found a drawing of it but it really doesn't do it justice.

19mm?? but you 'll barely be able to see it!!!

i've only been fishkeeping since august.
so my smallest are neon tetras. yay!

always pondering a dwarf puffer though, but i don't know if they'd be too small, whether i'd get annoyed that there'd be so much space in my 5 gallon around this tiny little fish.

hmmm!

I love my neons - they're brilliant and the hardiest fish I seem to have despite all the warnings about them!

The smallest are my pygmy cory babies - 1cm at the mo but will grow to 2.5cm

Dwarf puffers at 2cm were something I was interested in cos I read they were shoaling and suitable for a community. Not true though;