karynjoy Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 I saw some fish on the internet that were in a community tank and they had the head one colour and the tail another colour i think they were yellow and purple or orange and purple and were called something like traffic lights. Ijust tried to do an internet search to find them again and can't find any. has anyone got any ideas what they might be please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 http://www.google.co.nz/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4HPAA_enNZ256NZ256&q=bicolor+blenny is it this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 saltwater fish? Royal Gramma perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted October 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 It was a smallish school fish and the aquariums were landscaped freshwater. The guy had put it in as a first fish when he was cycling his tank. (i've run out of broadband and i'm on dial up speed at the mo) so it's taking me ages to look back through the photos. BTW thanks for helping me :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 what about red and greeny blue? like a neon or cardinal tetra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlid7 Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Boeseman's Rainbowfish: Melanotaenia boesemani Can you be more precise eg What colour head, colour body, big or small tail. Just to narrow it down a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted October 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 The colours were through the middle of the fish... I've looked at a heap of tetras and now I'm looking at Danios to see if i have any luck. I'm starting to think that i dreamed it or they had some special lighting in the tanks that changed the fishes colours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlid7 Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 were they in stripes along the fish or up and down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted October 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Thanks for that!!! I though i was losing the plot for a second there and really had dreamed the jolly things!!. Can we get those in nz? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlid7 Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 if you are talking about these Boeseman's Rainbowfish: Melanotaenia boesemani then yes they are at most pet shops for around $18 each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted October 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Cool, the pet shop is a bit short on fish here :-) They had no fish in there yesterday. It's good to know that i'll be able to find some . I think i may have to go out of town for them tho'. Thanks everyone for helping me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted October 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Cool, the pet shop is a bit short on fish here :-) They had no fish in there yesterday. It's good to know that i'll be able to find some . I think i may have to go out of town for them tho'. Thanks everyone for helping me. What did I learn today? I am not inventing imaginary fish...thank goodness and two twenty litre buckets of the local river sand takes three hours to wash and mainly consists of clay (1/2 a bucket of agregate remaining!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted October 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 I was looking on trademe to see if there were any of those fish and couldn't see any. Do people breed them here in NZ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted November 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Still haven't seen any of the Boeseman's Rainbowfish: Melanotaenia boesemani anywhere. I have two beautiful siamese fighters a M and a F. They seem to be playing tag a bit. I'm hoping that they are playing (or something) and not fighting!! she's changing colour and flashing stripes...what does that mean? I was wondering if Blue Rams, neons and guppies would go in there safely too? The next question would be does any have any of those to sell please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave+Amy Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 think when female fighters show stripes then they are ready to breed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted November 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 Really, i hope so that'd be awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted November 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 I feel terrible!! My male siamese fighter is dead!! When I was setting uop the filter the other day I tried to put a spray bar on the outlet pipe which fell off and went to the back at the bottom behind some driftwood. I forgot all about it. Until today when I couldn't figure out where the fish was. I poked around and saw the pipe just now and there it was stuck!! Poor fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firenzenz Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/rainbows.htm You can get almost all of these rainbows here plus a few that aren't listed. I once had a 4ft planted with rainbows, and I would happily have one again. Colours are amazing Animal shack in Pukekohe usually has 2-3 varieties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Cool thanks for that, I wonder if they post fish!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caper Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 karynjoy wrote: saw the pipe just now and there it was stuck He got stuck under the pipe?? So sorry for your loss. Caper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karynjoy Posted November 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Hi, no he swam inside the pipe. I had no idea that they would do that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caper Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 I haven't seen spray bars here so had no idea a fish could, well try to fit in. So sad Caper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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