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    Help to identify this fish

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    Can someone help me to identify this fish? It somehow look like pencil fish to me, it also look like a some sort of killi fish. There is a red dotted line going along the body...





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    Thanks man...

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    my first impression was a headstander
    does it often swim with it's head down?

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    no it does not face downwards, infact its head is always on surface of water. Most of the time it will stay on top like killi or panchax.... Some Pencil stay on top too

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    Got it, it belong to Copella family but don't know exactly which one..
    I think it is not so common in Singapore

    can take a look here

    Copella Link
    Copella Link

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    kekekee.. i got one from gan.. very nice fish.. seen some a while back, but dunno remember which lfs.. very seldom seen fish in SG

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    hmm
    either copella spp or pyrrhulina spp.
    can't quite tell

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    What is interesting abt this fish is the way they reproduce. They spawn OUT of the water on the leaves of overhanging plants. Female will jump and stick their eggs on the back of the overhanging plants, and the male will constantly splash water to keep the eggs wet until they hatch and small fly dropping into the water. That is why they are sometime call Splashing Tetra

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    yours are spawning?

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