Mixing Lambchop Rasboras With Harliquin Rasboras

[jrussuk]

Hi i had 6 Lambchop Rasboras but over the past 6 months ive lost 3 and cant find them in any lfs, the closest i can find is harliquin rasboras. Could i get 3 or 4 of the harliquins to get the school back up to make the lambchops happy?

many thanks

 

[Miss Wiggle]

i believe they are the same fish, think it's just a different common name

 

[jrussuk]

Thats what i thought as they look the same but they are two diffrent species (harliquins are larger)

 

[Miss Wiggle]

My apologies, looks like they are two different species, really surprised!

Trigonostigma espei - Lambchop rasbora;
Trigonostigma hengeli - Harlequin Rasbora

in short yes i think they would school together to an extent as they are very similar looking, they would probably be more comfortable with they're own species but i think this solution is better than nothing

 

[jrussuk]

Thanks for that They look so similar dont they!!!!

 

[Miss Wiggle]

yeah crazy, i hadn't heard of them before so googled for a pic, though, yeah that's a harlequin, and the first site i looked at had them both listed as common names for the hengeli's. bit more digging later though proved that site wrong.

 

[The-Wolf]

Trigonostigma espei - Lambchop rasbora;
Trigonostigma hengeli - Harlequin Rasbora

not quite correct
Rasbora heteromorpha is the harliquin rasbora
Trigonostigma hengeli is Hengels' rasbora or glowlight rasbora

edit

this shows all three of them
1st R.heteromopha
2nd T.hengeli
3rd T.espei

 

[Miss Wiggle]

oh i'm just getting too confused today!

 

[cuprajake]

I HAVE BOTH GLOW LIGHT AND HARLEQUIN'S AND THEY SCHOOL JUST FINE,

JAKE

 

[-Ian-]

I've got a mixed group of Lambchop and Harlequin rasboras and they happily school together.

I only found this out a couple of minutes ago, until I saw The Wolf's pics though I thought they we're all Harlequins but with colour variation between the sexes

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