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hello

my name is david and have kept goldfish from when i was six and have always kept goldfish in tanks and ponds at every stage of my life.
now im 13 and last september for my birthday(17th ) i bought a 30" tank .
i cycled it and added my 2 goldies from a smaller tank. then added a shubunkin and a sarrassa comet 2 weeks later. 3 weeks later i added a tiny yellow goldfish then a week after that came billy my pond goldfish(long story of disease and extensions) who was about 4" and now 5".
then i found maidenhead aquatics who are the best!
i bought 5 zebra danios and my fav weather loach, she rocks(think it's a she).
then a month later came a hara hara.
but after much reasearch wasn't a hundred percent.
then 1 zebra danios and replaced it with 2 leopard danios and a zebra danios.
now i now i am way overstocked.
my goldfish are going in my pond in 2 days which is still "unfinished".
im getting a 3ft tank which will hold the sub tropicalfish...
2 weather loaaches
7 danios
3 "hara hara" (getting a few more if need 2 be in groups)
5 peppered corys
3 lake tebera rainbowfish.
and in the 30"
2 rams
5 khuli loaches
3 panda corys
3 bronze corys(1 albino)
5 rose danios

also getting a 10g with a trio of dwarf puffer fish.

well there is the story of my fishkeeping so far.

now the question...few.

what is this?

it's imo either...


this 1?

this 1?

this 1?

this 1?

and here mine is...

few after a long wait for him to cum out(yarn )i got the best i could.
all i can say is that i tried...













any1 identify him/her?

many thanks for any help.

david

I would guess .

I can't identify it properly. It would be nice if you could catch the fish and put it in "photo tank", and get good shots of it.

Unless of course Silurus turns up and says what it is in the next hour or so - he's an expert on these fishes (along with many others - but he wrote an article revising and assigning new type specimens for these fish not so long ago).

Edit: Doh! He's identified it already... I take too long looking at things...

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Mats

MatsP wrote:I can't identify it properly. It would be nice if you could catch the fish and put it in "photo tank", and get good shots of it.

Unless of course Silurus turns up and says what it is in the next hour or so - he's an expert on these fishes (along with many others - but he wrote an article revising and assigning new type specimens for these fish not so long ago).

Edit: Doh! He's identified it already... I take too long looking at things...

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Mats

lol

I would guess Erethistes pusillus.

looks like i now know what he is!
thanks ever so much!!!!!!!!
but do they like to be in groups?

thanks

david

To me also, they look like E pusillus.

I had one that I rescued a while ago from a LFS and it did fine all by itself, since then I have managed to get another four, and bar feeding times they avoid one another, They can on occasion squabble when meeting in open spaces,, my advise is that you can house more than one of these together as long as there are enough hiding places for them to retire too. BTW these fish do not tolerate poor water conditions, and I advise that you should feed live food at least twice a week, ALL my Erethistes species, are fed only 'live food's, such as`: - blood worms,
white worms, daphnia, and brine shrimp.

i will be feeding brineshrimp twice a week!
io MIGHT get another 2, the tank will be 3ft and all my tank(soon to have 2 s'es on the end ) are planted densly and alot of caves ftrom slate and pebbles.

again, thanks very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

david