Looking for an ID on small fish.

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Arahant

Feeder Fish
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Nov 24, 2012
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Hello all,

I just got 40 feeder guppies from the LFS, and i put them into the tank with my gar for them to feed on, but as im looking around at all the guppies and noticing how some are colorful or have strange markings, i relise thats normal considering where feeder guppies come from but then i notice this one fish that looks quite abit different then the rest, it has this big fin on its back that non of the other guppies have.

It looks like a different fish all together, wondering if anyone can identify but i know it can be difficult when they are this small.
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sorry i couldnt get any closer i will try and get a better pic, but if you notice the top back part of him has this big fin and non of the other guppies have a fin anything like it, and it stays open like that almost the whole time even when he's swimming, also his back tail if you look close you can see its well fanned out, also all the guppies tend to have this skinny tails that come sharply up from the belly so that it doesnt go symetricaly back, they kind look like maby the letter P on its side, whereas this fish looks like a regular fish where the bottom tapers to the back of its tail.

I dunno maby its just a different type of guppy, but im thinking maby its a leftover fry from one of the other aquariums that they didnt want to put in any of the other tanks for whatever reason.

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Looks like some type of molly.
 
Wild type platy OR swordtail. I have a bunch of them in the past and I got them from the feeder guppy tanks. The platy males were very colorful and I ended up got a nice green swordtail male that I thought he was a platy. Grow this little guy out and see what you get!
 
it's not a goodied, a mosquitofish, a minnow or a guppy. It's just a wild type Xiphophorus
 
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