ID: What fish is this?

**genes** · 8th Nov 2008, 12:48

Some cheap shots

....anyone knows the name of these wierd looking guys?

**FND** · 9th Nov 2008, 00:08

You're very modest

**k3nlim** · 9th Nov 2008, 02:40

They're a beauty!! New tetras in your tanks?

**stonespot** · 9th Nov 2008, 03:20

ember tetra?

**genes** · 9th Nov 2008, 10:58

They are from someone's collection and definately not amber tetras. First shot is not fully in focus and second shot has this red eye thingy. They were taken hastily hence the cheap shots...

**Orion** · 9th Nov 2008, 11:53

My bet :

Hemigrammus erythrozonus var. through

'fish farm' selective breeding program.

**celticfish** · 10th Nov 2008, 23:52

Nice shots genes!
Don't know what they are but auntie has two bags of them in the tanks left of the hermit crabs.
The eyes are naturally this red, not "red-eye" from flash.
And I like the transparent look too.
Also, these guys are gluttons.
They will eat BW till their tummies look like they are about to burst!

**hwchoy** · 11th Nov 2008, 00:03

if its red eyed then its albino. and if there are many of them then clearly bred.

**celticfish** · 11th Nov 2008, 00:16

I saw one sole specimen with a "normal" eye on one side and red on the other.
Anything one can deduce from that?

**Shadow** · 11th Nov 2008, 00:39

red eye due to flash? similar thing that happen to human eyes?

**celticfish** · 11th Nov 2008, 00:48

Shadow,
The eyes look red in normal light.
Just like red-eye in flash photography for caucasians.
You don't need flash for the eyes to look that way.

**Aquaculture** · 11th Nov 2008, 11:01

Seems like you traded in your camera for a x-ray machine.

**Orion** · 11th Nov 2008, 15:54

Why they want to breed this albino fish?

If fish hobbyists want a natural one, can always get Astyanax fasciatus mexicanus - Blind cave tetra.

Oh....the transparent organ.

Found the fish in website:

http://www.hippocampus-bildarchiv.de...siMonCheri.htm

**k3nlim** · 12th Nov 2008, 00:42

Its known as Paracheirodon innesi Mon Cheri?
Another variant of the neon tetra as in farm breed? Looks like an albino ember tetra in my opinion...

**Orion** · 12th Nov 2008, 03:04

They may be named that in Germany. Different places named differently.
Can also call it Ember Ultralis Durchsickern Schönheit.

Waiting for official name for this ... beauty...

**k3nlim** · 12th Nov 2008, 03:24

Paracheirodon innesi is the scientific name for neon tetra...and Mon Cheri is the breeder's name?

**genes** · 12th Nov 2008, 06:45

I didn't look at them in detail. Actually, i thought it was my flash that made the eye look red. First picture and the fish behind the 2nd picture seems to have black eyes.