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Just found this in the LFS and couldn't ID it so I brought it home. It was the only one of it's kind there and still the only one of it's kind in my tank, though he's in with a school of other similar-size rainbows.
I would guess a lacustris because my LFS often has them. But it doesn't really look like any lacustris I've seen, but it DOES come really close to the description and pics of Melanotaenia monticola from the "Home of the Rainbowfish" website:
"elanotaenia monticola males generally have a lilac blue to greenish coloured wash over the body, fading to silvery white on the chest and abdomen. Scales are edged with a coppery gold colouration. They have a very prominent black mid-lateral stripe extending from the eye to the caudal fin base."
He looks silver, almost white most of the time, but in pictures you can see the blue. He flashes bright on the forehead, looks white to the naked eye. Haven't gotten a picture of that yet.
BELOW: 2 pics of my unknown fish (1 with flash, 1 without).
Anybody know for sure?
Thanks!!
I would guess a lacustris because my LFS often has them. But it doesn't really look like any lacustris I've seen, but it DOES come really close to the description and pics of Melanotaenia monticola from the "Home of the Rainbowfish" website:
"elanotaenia monticola males generally have a lilac blue to greenish coloured wash over the body, fading to silvery white on the chest and abdomen. Scales are edged with a coppery gold colouration. They have a very prominent black mid-lateral stripe extending from the eye to the caudal fin base."
He looks silver, almost white most of the time, but in pictures you can see the blue. He flashes bright on the forehead, looks white to the naked eye. Haven't gotten a picture of that yet.
BELOW: 2 pics of my unknown fish (1 with flash, 1 without).
Anybody know for sure?
Thanks!!
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