Rainbow fish reference site
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 04:05:25 am sheriartist57 wrote: > Wonderful macrophotography on your rainbow fry!!! The adults are > beautiful.
Hard to get those photos when they are tiny. I spent a few hour leaning over the tank on macro 
> I would love to have some breeding pairs > I have found that my fry,whether livebearers or others,have done well > enough as long as I keep some cover for them.I am not looking to sell > them,so I just let nature run its course,and have had alot more > survivors than I thought I would.I know the professionals always say > to remove the fry,but I have had more success leaving them in same > water conditions,etc as adults.I had more losses removing them and > letting them grow out,and they ended up being alot smaller than the > ones I “missed”
Same here. The ones in the tank did better and were always bigger and stronger. The rainbows don’t seem to be as bad about eating their own fry as others.
> Exactly which species is this rainbowfish? I know them by the common > names,and have a plethora of books with scientific.Thanks for the pics.
The guys I have here are local to the area on the queensland coast. They are Eastern Rainbowfish, or Melanotaenia splendida splendida. There is a photo of my old male on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanotaenia_splendida_splendida
They live in the local steams here and are a hardy fish. I like them as they become very people oriented and I have had them in tanks off and on for over 30 years now.
tim
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