Rainbow Celebese - Help With Research?

[mandi]

I was at the LFS today and saw an absolutely STUNNING fish -- the tank was labelled "Rainbow Celebese".

I googled it, but I'm not finding much info. What I did find said that it is a type of danio(?!), that it's a peaceful community fish, and that the scientific name is Telmatherina ladiges. Other sites have it listed as a rainbow fish (which makes more sense I guess?) under the scientific name Marosatherina ladigesi.

The ones the LFS had streaks of BRIGHT yellow on them and looked like this -- http/www.petresources.net/fish/rainbowf/mar_lad.html

Can anyone point me to some more info? I'm hoping perhaps a trio of them (they were $9.99 each or 3 for $27.39) might be suited to one of my tanks. But I want to do my research first of course!


(Mods - I wasn't sure if "danio" was the correct classification of this fish, or what "category" they belong in, so I wasn't sure where to post!! But please feel free to move this to the appropriate category for me!)

 

[mandi]

Sorry to bump my own post ...
But does anyone have any info at all? Everything I see says they're peaceful community fish (but that doesn't really tell me anything).

Could I mix these wth my angels and bloodfin tetras ... or is that asking for disaster?

 

[santos]

Hello Mandi
I am no expert on Rainbows but I have a few right now. Rainbows are schooling fish and you should have a group of them. They will be fine with the Angels. I don’t know anything about the bloodfin tetras. They make excellent community fish and when the males display to each other its pretty spectacular.
I hope this helps.
Santos