White clouds

[Elisabeth83]

I posted a question in emergency section when I thought one of my white clouds was pale and not schooling with the group but I have since come to find out that I have 1 regular white cloud and 5 long-long finned white clouds. At the shop the normals and the long-finned ones were next to eachother so I guess some must of gotten over somehow.

Anyways the normal short-finned one is getting chased by the others and half the time isn't allowed to school with them. I'm just wondering if this is normal behaviour? I would think both the short-finned one and the long-finned ones would get along?

I guess he's the odd man out and maybe I need to return him seeing as the group doesnt want to accept him?

 

[fish_keeper2]

umm i never herd of long finned white clouds. could you post a pic? are you sure they arent danios.

do they look like this: http/images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...3D%26safe%3Doff

or this: http/images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...3D%26safe%3Doff

scroll down a bit to find the danios on the last link

 

[Fella]

In the link you posted it reads

"There is also a long-finned variety of White Cloud Mountain Minnows called "Meteor Minnow" or "Red Rocket Minnow"."

And this is what google image search gives us

 

[fish_keeper2]

oops i dint read that ) . the pic doesnt look any different from normal white clouds though

 

[Synirr]

It doesn't seem like it should make a difference, but apparently it does
Maybe you could exchange him for another long-finned one?

For those of you wondering, this is what long-finned ones look like
http/www.characin.com/carey/trips/99dc/1...tecloud_300.jpg

 

[The-Wolf]

on the long finned WCMMs the line running along the fish is often a blue colour, in comparrison the the std WCMM that is often grey.

And to answer the original question, yes they are fine together.

BTW WCMMs are sometimes called chinese danios

 

[Elisabeth83]

This is the site I was looking at http/www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Minnows,%2...te%20Clouds.htm

This is what my short finned one looks like http/www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Minnow179.jpg and this is what my long finned ones look like http/www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Minnow308.jpg

I saw the link you posted Synirr but mines fins arn't that long. Maybe theres short, medium and long?

I'll watch them today and see if the shorter finned one is still being chased and then I'll maybe call the store I got them from and exchange him for another one of the longer finned ones.

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oops i dint read that ) . the pic doesnt look any different from normal white clouds though

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Because that pic is of a regular white cloud that's why At least looking from the fin colors and patterns it seems to be. About the longer-finned ones they differ because the fins being a bit longer they differ because the lonnger-finned ones are more colorful, the longer-finned ones have the blue line like wolf said, I noticed the longer-finned ones caudal fins are more lyre-tail shaped too? as well as I noticed they are bigger and their finnage patterns are slightly different? On my regular one he's got kind of a spot on his lower fin that is brownish whereas the long finned variety has just a line of red. Here's what I am talking about http/freshwater-aquarium-fish.com/images...s_albonubes.jpg and then for comparison this pic of the "medium/long" finned kind http/www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Minnow308.jpg
You see there's no yellow lining with a brown spot on the lonnger-finned ones