Calling ODBALL, GUPPY, ANY FISH ID EXPERTS

[grmanrocks]

so like 4 months ago i found this fish in the discus tank at me LFS. the whole tank is marked as Not for sale.

wel scince i know the owner pretty well, i asked him how much for the guy, he said i could have it for free, if he could catch it
well he caught it.
so i put it in my 10 gallon, untill it killed all my cories, not its got its own 2.5 gallon tank..... any ideas as to WTH it is???

 

[grmanrocks]

at night or in low liight condidtions he has 2 wiskers that unfold from his chin.... i have no clue as to what it is............

 

[green_fox]

how big is it? and how long have you had it?

 

[grmanrocks]

about 1-2"s

 

[rottbo]

some sort of terta I would assume..

 

[odalisay]

apollo shark? I know when I watch my apollo sharks swim around somtimes they have two whiskers that come down when they swim around. I could be wrong though. GL with the id

 

[Jesse]

some sort of terta I would assume..

No, a tetra would have an adipose fin. From the bad pictures, it looks like an apollo shark, Luciosoma setigerum:

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/spe...110&genusname=Luciosoma&speciesname=setigerum

A medium sized (10 inches max) cyprinid from Southeast Asia. They get pretty scrappy in groups but generally aren't aggressive to other species. They are healthy eaters and grow quickly. I have a few in my African cichlid tank as dithers.

 

[green_fox]

dose it look anything like this in real life?

 

[odalisay]

dose it look anything like this in real life?

The apollo shark kind of has a weird shaped mouth, kind of looks like a beak. Very pleasant to watch them swim around my fish tank. I was thinking of getting a nice little shoal of these guys.

 

[Jesse]

dose it look anything like this in real life?

No, the apollo shark is a surface feeder w/ an upturned mouth. The fish you've shown are Leporinus spp. or Anostomus spp. and are adapted for bottom feeding. Totally different body shape. Also, there's the adipose fins that are present in your pictures and is absent in the fish shown. Cyprinids don't have adipose fins. Characins do.