What Is My Baby Fish

[crawfordej]

I bought 4 palties about 4 weeks ago. In the bag with them was a baby - basically just an eye and a tail really.

This is the first tropical fish tank I have had so am no good with telling what babies are. It is now about half the size of a neon but starting to go a brilliant silver/green/yellow colour in its tail and this morning has the tiniest stripe of the same colour apearing down its side.

It is a lot flatter backed that the platies and completely the wrong colour. The only thing I can think it could be really is a guppy. It is quite slim with a paddle shape tail and an upturned mouth. Have never seen a baby guppy so am only guessing

Is there anything else it could be?

 

[smurfyy_2k3]

the uptured mouth sounds to me like mollies or guppies and going by the colouring id say it was a guppie

 

[Annastasia]

I'd agree with Guppy. The coloring on the tail definitely points to that, as does the paddle shape.

 

[timmystood]

Yeah - does sound like a Guppy.

 

[crawfordej]

Have had a friend come round and have a look and I think all agreed that is a guppy.

It is generally swimming with the platies - should I get some guppies for it to go with? - will it even know it's a guppy if I do? It's surely has never seen one before!! -