Boesemani Rainbow?'s - Fish Changing

MikeS · 08-08-2008, 05:42 AM

My Boesemani's have always been beautiful blue/gold, with a couple showing a little bit of red in the tail. Tonight I got home to find some with dark vertical stripes, and a lot of brilliant red in the tail/yellow. These pictures are crappy, but it was the bad camera and I forgot to turn on the light fully. Anybody have a clue? Are they mating? I have seen nice large ones in display aquariums, and never this before.

Stripe

Red in Tail

Normal one and one with stripes and red tail

Stripes and red tail

sadielmorris · 08-08-2008, 01:54 PM

I really don't know, but if I had to fathom a guess I'd say they were a result of breeding displays.

My female neon rainbow developped a horizontal stripe and the male started going bonkers for her. A couple of days later after I moved some java moss in the shrimp tank, I had 2 little fry swimming around. Babies would never have stood a chance in the community tank.

08-08-2008, 05:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
MikeS Planted Tank Obsessed (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Tracy, CA Posts: 387	Boesemani Rainbow?'s - Fish Changing My Boesemani's have always been beautiful blue/gold, with a couple showing a little bit of red in the tail. Tonight I got home to find some with dark vertical stripes, and a lot of brilliant red in the tail/yellow. These pictures are crappy, but it was the bad camera and I forgot to turn on the light fully. Anybody have a clue? Are they mating? I have seen nice large ones in display aquariums, and never this before. Stripe Red in Tail Normal one and one with stripes and red tail Stripes and red tail __________________ 210 Gallon 39 Tiger Barbs, 7 Cardinal Tetras, 3 Red Iranian Rainbows, 5 Boesemani Rainbows, 8 Roseline Sharks, 1 Gold Nugget Pleco, 1 Peppermint Pleco, 3 Clown Loaches, 1 Honey Dwarf Gourami, 1 Green Spotted Puffer, 1 BB Goby, 1 Ember Tetra, 5 Algae Foxes, 1 farlowella cat, 1 Hillstream Loach, ? Red Claw Shrimp, 1 Rainbow Shark, 2 African Dwarf Frogs, 2 ropefish, 2 German Rams

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08-08-2008, 01:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
sadielmorris Algae Grower (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0) Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ontario Posts: 49	I really don't know, but if I had to fathom a guess I'd say they were a result of breeding displays. My female neon rainbow developped a horizontal stripe and the male started going bonkers for her. A couple of days later after I moved some java moss in the shrimp tank, I had 2 little fry swimming around. Babies would never have stood a chance in the community tank.

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