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So, what's this then?

black line hemi also called slender hemiodus....Hemiodus gracilis

joemc wrote:black line hemi also called slender hemiodus....Hemiodus gracilis

The scales look wrong. Does that thing have big teeth?

Jools

joemc wrote:black line hemi also called slender hemiodus....Hemiodus gracilis

Muhahahahaaa! You fell into my trap!

Jools wrote:The scales look wrong. Does that thing have big teeth?
Jools

No, they have lots of teeny tiny teeth, and big smiles (especially when given a chunk of Repashy, which is probably their favourite food).

Okay, so what is the name of this fish?

Crenuchus spilurus male



Moenkhausia cosmops

I like those!

Jools

Muhahahahaaa! You fell into my trap!

coelacanth you got me there, teach me to make more than a quick glance.........


kruseman....... the sailfin tetra, Crenuchus spilurus one of my favourite fish, super interesting to watch their interaction with each other

Cosmops! Someone is showing off...

Here's another view of the mimic

What is the name?

kruseman wrote:What is the name?

Give me some cosmops and I'll tell you...

Curimata ocellata

a couple of African ones, not a great pic but here they are
Brycinus longipinnis and an Arnoldichthys spilopterus in the background

Arnoldichthys spilopterus is easily my favorite characin! The first time I saw them was in the late 80s. There were three mixed in a tank of Scissortail Rasboras (Rasbora trilineata)and the staff at the fish shop had no idea what they were. I bought the trio for six dollars. They lived for nearly ten years. Pictures don't do them justice--they have to be seen live!

yep, they are in my top 5 too, the huge scales and the amazing oily colours have to be seen to be believed, my pictures don't do fish justice at the best of times and in this case the photo is a million miles from what the fish looks like in real life

coelacanth wrote:

kruseman wrote:What is the name?

Give me some cosmops and I'll tell you...

Some pictures then

Marc van Arc wrote:

sema2.jpg

A lot can happen in about one and a half years. Yesterday I had to say goodbye to my Semaprochilodus and when viewing the picture half way the previous page (can't make it work through a quote, sorry)it struck me that all fishes on it have vanished from my tank by now (except for the Ageneiosus, sitting slightly above and behind the group of Semaprochilodus). Currently I'm back to auchenipterids (6 species) and knife fishes (2 species).
I can hardly remember the time I did not keep characins.
So if I may adapt the title of this thread to suit my current status:
no characins, that's odd.

no characins, that's odd.

I have a hard time spending money on the odd characins as the ones tend to never do well for me. I love the pictures in this thread. I am trying to find something tiny to keep with my betta channoides... guessing I should do rasboras, but are their tetras that also would work and NOT prey on the baby channoides?

Do unusual count? I have some unusual ones...

Jools

Although I'm not the topicstarter I would say yes!

Check this Characin out.
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-blue-belli ... .html#nRlv
I would call these an odd one.

Apparently not seen in the hobby but may be coming to Tropical Waters aquatics in Birmingham (their photo)

That's Trochilocharax ornatus.
Pretty new and rare in the hobby. I've seen them once at Zoo Zajac, a shop in Germany and were nice but very tiny characins.

I had these - quite delicate I found

Interesting.
In what way were these delicate? The food? Or waterparameters?

kruseman wrote:Interesting.
In what way were these delicate? The food? Or waterparameters?

Hi kruseman,
This species is new to me but as a former fish shop owner, I look at the fish in the photo and one thought springs to mind. I bet those don't ship well.

kruseman wrote:Interesting.
In what way were these delicate? The food? Or waterparameters?

They ate well enough and the males even displayed to the females for a while. Over time however they suffered from some kind of mouth rot and would go opaque and die off one at a time. I think I had them for about 6 months max.

Female

Moved three males into a display tank couple of weeks ago, thought they'd be fairly shy and retiring but they're out at the front competing with the neons and bleeding blues, look great, the reflective spot on the abdomen is really glowing.

Picked up some "by catch" of Cheirodon simulans . Looks like 3 species. I need to pick up one Gnathocharax with black (!) pelvic fins when the hatched fish have recovered from their trip.

Not the rarest of tetras, but a school of tetras that I love watching. Their size doesn't really come across in the photo, but that is a 6 foot long 125 gallon (473 liter) tank for scale.
-Shane