Threadfin rainbows (Iriatherina werneri)

[GaryE12 10]

Here's a question for the members who browse through pet shops. Are you seeing healthy threadfin rainbows where you are?

It's a slender species to begin, and a delicate one in every sense. I used to breed them, and would love to have some in my fishroom. But when I've seen them in regional stores, they've been consistently too thin and unhealthy looking. Or, they've been 100% males. This goes back more than 10 years.

So, is the central supplier from my region buying poor stock, or are the captive stocks in bad shape everywhere? Where I am now, I would have to order them blind online, and I'm wondering if there's any chance.

 

[Magnum Man52 166]

I had looked at them before I got TB throughout the rainbow tank ( I never had any here ) I see Dan’s sells them ( out of stock right now ) but they typically brag about the condition of their fish, so if they have them for sale, they should “look” nice… that doesn’t mean they farm well, as I have witnessed with the sail fin mollys… I don’t have any local shops, except the dog groomer with tanks, and they have never had them that I have seen, but I only go in there every 6 weeks or so, for feeders and frozen foods…

Threadfin Rainbow (Iriatherina werneri)

Threadfin Rainbow (Iriatherina werneri) for sale from Dans Fish at $12.99 each. Shipped Next Day Air.

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[RyanKieser]

Here's a question for the members who browse through pet shops. Are you seeing healthy threadfin rainbows where you are?

It's a slender species to begin, and a delicate one in every sense. I used to breed them, and would love to have some in my fishroom. But when I've seen them in regional stores, they've been consistently too thin and unhealthy looking. Or, they've been 100% males. This goes back more than 10 years.

So, is the central supplier from my region buying poor stock, or are the captive stocks in bad shape everywhere? Where I am now, I would have to order them blind online, and I'm wondering if there's any chance.

We purchased nine juveniles a month ago in Cape Town South Africa, of which two are males. All very healthy and very active in my son's tank. Cheers

 

[SammyTargo]

Here's a question for the members who browse through pet shops. Are you seeing healthy threadfin rainbows where you are?

It's a slender species to begin, and a delicate one in every sense. I used to breed them, and would love to have some in my fishroom. But when I've seen them in regional stores, they've been consistently too thin and unhealthy looking. Or, they've been 100% males. This goes back more than 10 years.

So, is the central supplier from my region buying poor stock, or are the captive stocks in bad shape everywhere? Where I am now, I would have to order them blind online, and I'm wondering if there's any chance.

Well, I don't suggest you are too far from my general area but north of Toronto, <45 minutes from where I live (I am talking about Vaughan, Markham, Scarborough, etc.), I used to see these guys at Big Al's, and a small fish store called Shrimp Fever (only once ever). I haven't seen them recently though, and I mean like I saw them last 2 years ago and I haven't seen them when I went back to a fish store like 4 weeks ago.

 

[TwoTankAmin44]

Many years ago I had a tank at the foot of my bed, It was planted an only contained a group of mixed sex thread fins. I would wake up every day to the male displaying and it always meant I got up with a smile on my face. I used to call them my aquatic butterflies. I never had them spawn. But years later after I had lost that group I tried again. I had to park the incoming fish in a 10 gal. with a bunch of floating plants and a lot of bn fry growing out for a week before they went into their tank. To clean the bn grow tank every week I had to remove the floating plants.

Soon after the new threads went in and then moved to their permanent home and I was pulling the plants, I discovered several very tiny fry were hiding in them. They had to be threadfins. But the next week they were gone. I did not have small enough foods to feed them.

I have really wanted to have a tank of threadfins again but have not seen them for sale. I have a hard time paying Dan's prices but he does tend to have healthy fish. This may be a lucky thing for the fish as I am having trouble keeping up with the reduced number of tanks I now have. I find it is difficult to do two days of serious tank work in a row lately. 12 tanks may still be too many