Any sighting of dwarf pencilfish?

**Jungle-mania** · 28th Aug 2009, 18:10

Has anyone sigted dwarf pencilfishes?

**Puffer** · 28th Aug 2009, 18:32

Is this the one?

**Jungle-mania** · 29th Aug 2009, 01:10

yeap that one, looking to get them for my tank.

**lazyMF** · 29th Aug 2009, 01:48

there are some in 328.... if i am not wrong

**Jungle-mania** · 29th Aug 2009, 10:00

cool, I will head over later. Thanks for the info.

**Jungle-mania** · 29th Aug 2009, 23:08

Those at C328 were 3 line ones, very healthy, but not want I looking.

**Puffer** · 30th Aug 2009, 16:32

Hi Jungle-maia, you sure it's the one shown? Another pic to ascertain - a deep black line runs along the centre of body, with hue of blue on tips of fins, and red at end of body near tail and on anal fin? FYI, I got a group of 5 at Soon Heng Henderson last month - He has a tankful of them. They are quite ferocious eaters and grow fast with fat tummies. I can check out its availability tomorrow if you are still keen.

**Fuzzy** · 4th Sep 2009, 03:06

I saw a few at Rainbow (the one beside Petmart in Serangoon North) last night.

**Puffer** · 4th Sep 2009, 09:46

Hi Jungle-mania,

Have you got your fish yet? If it's the one as described, then I've seen many at TB Ben's shop few days ago. They are healthy and nice.

**vinz** · 4th Sep 2009, 09:54

Jungle Mania,

In future, please post sighting requests in the "LFS Sightings forum". Thanks. Moved it for you already.

**Jungle-mania** · 4th Sep 2009, 10:22

No it is not a dwarf pencilfish. This is what the fish looks like:
http://www.slipperylittlesuckers.com...s/IMG_1878.jpg

The one you showed me is a 3 line pencilfish, like this one here:
http://www.livefishdirect.com/images...pencilfish.jpg

It is hard to differentiate them when they are young especially when they lose their colour in the tank at the LFS, I knew some reputable LFS actually group them together by accident too. The main difference is the red spots are not on the tail fins, but on the side of the body and every other fins except for the side and tail fins. There is also a goldish hue to the scales which get stronger in colour as they satbilise or mature.