ID: What fish is this? - Hemigrammus ocellifer

[Gecko]

Please help to ID this fish, thank you.

[CK Yeo]

One fat Hemigrammus ocellifer - Head and tail light tetra

[CacaManiac]

yeah i was gonna say how amazingly fat it was... kept this fish before. They look cool in schools.

[CK Yeo]

Here's a better picture after it has matured a bit and fattened up a bit. I quite like the iridescence of the mature fish. Unfortunately, it has contracted a fungus-like disease and passed on. You can see it around the eyes and the mid torso (anyone knows what is it?).



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[Gecko]

Thanks Yeo.

I started with 4 small ones, and after 2 years, down to my last one, he is even bigger than my adult black neons, must be easily 2" TL.

Just added 7 juveniles today that I found from C328.

[Enoran]

I have read books calling this the Beacon fish