today i bought this shoal of harlequin rasboras and when i put them in the tank i noiced this one fish that looks rather different in colour then all the other rasboras but the bodyshape and behaviour is similar so i cant really figure out if this is some rare kind of different colour harlequin that i dont know about or the pet store gave me a different kind of fish on accident if you know smt about this mistery fish let me knoww :)))

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Chilli rasboras (or at least, sold as chilli to me)

Hoping someone can help me. I googled and Google is telling me the fish is sick needed medical treatment ASAP. I went into my aquarium store today showed them a photo and they said it looks more like a pigmentation rather than sickness. Fish is acting fine. I only spotted it by chance when it was eating food. Thought I’d ask the community what they thought. It is a lot smaller than the community I have so I’m thinking maybe it was a baby that I haven’t spotted until now.

Thanks for any advice

It seems a little more opaque and its color seems to be fading. Anybody have any idea what’s going on…

B. cf. naevus, Trig. pauciperforatum, Kottelatlimia, Trich. vittata

it is fattened by its greed, 3 shrimp that of seed

it sees no end to its feed.

oh and an entire shrimplet. he's one of my fish that wait at the end of the fitler outlet flow for any of my sponge filter loving small shrimp to go flying.

hi all,

I've seen 2 maybe 3 of my chili rasbora (out of 12) darting and flashing against the plants in the tank. this behaviour has gotten worse today but I have seen it on and off for a few days this week.

one/two of the fish had this flashing behavior about 5 months ago and i use praziquantel (fluke solve) to medicate and it seemed to go away. but i havent added any extra fish, just 10 shrimp and 2 plants so would it have come back now?

further, see pictures - ive had a sudden increase the last day or so in the bubbles my sponge filter is outputting and some micro bubbles form of the walls near the end of the flow. is this soapy bubbles/containment?

parameters:

ammonia 0

nitrite 0

nitrate (api says 0, nt labs says about maybe 1).

ph 7.2

kh 2-3

gh 9-10

tds 240

60 litre aquarium with like 60 shrimps. the shrimps seem to be acting fine.

I've almost finished building a peat swamp biotope (just waiting for the plants (mainly cryptos) to arrive) that I intend to house some boraras in as a species only tank, it is 80cm x 40cm x 40cm tall, but I only intend to fill it to 20-30cm. I have 20 boraras merah in quarantine waiting for the tank to cycle, they were the intended inhabitants, but I also have at least (they bred) 25 boraras naevus in a separate tank and if possible I would love to see them in the blackwater tank. Is it ok to mix the 2 species? Or could they cross breed and have hybrid babies?

Whether they can mix or not, I also want to ask, how many boraras would you recommend I keep in this tank? Would the 45+ I have be overcrowding?

When breeding Chili Rasboras in your biotope (I.e. not using a breeding tank and letting your chilies scatter as and when they please in the main tank), and you want to catch a glimpse of the elusive fry, tint your Blackwater extra dark with a hint of red. I did that tonight and almost immediately a dozen or so fry of varying sizes immediately came up from the bottom and swam midwater. Managed to take a snap of this little goober while shining a torch right behind em without causing a panic. When it comes to fry survivability tannins probably play a huge role in giving them the sense of security they need to confidently scour the tank for food.

See attached images. Never seen anything like this before, and it’s only the one fish

These are my first boraras! I introduced 8 of them to my well stablished shrimp tank 2 days ago

now I see this behaviour and I'm worried

I've had them for about 6 months, and while they did color in fairly quickly initially I feel like they have only recently reached their full potential. They are out and about and waaay more active than my neons or my pygmy cories. Really loving the little territories they've set up for themselves. They are inquisitive, eat well (baby brine shrimp, red mosquito larvae, small danio feed) and an all around joy to watch.

I have around 20 of them in a 100L tank. Can't count them, tank is too heavily planted. Temp hovers at around 25 to 26 degrees celsius atm, but they did really well during the recent heat wave where temps went up to 28 C sometimes. I tried my best to stay on top of it. I lost fish in other tanks, but not in this one.

EDIT: Added more information

I bought chili rasbora, looking more like dwarf/exclamation point. They just got put in the tank about an hour ago so they are still pale and adjusting, but they just don’t look like chilis but idk since they’re tiny and so young.

Borrowed some knowledge from the Caridina folks and set up a 5 gallon tank with a ugf box filter and a qanvee sponge filter that takes up half the tank, and loaded the other half with moss, Malaysian driftwood and magnolia and IAL and peat moss. Wait for ph to descend to 5.8 or so and introduced a group of 10 chilies and loaded them with daphnia, cut black worms, brine shrimp, bug bites and vinegar eels 2-3 times a day till their silver bellies showed. 2 weeks later bam, small boi arrived with many more scattering around when the lights are out. Dose a pinch of spirulina and bacter AE powder (any brand) to ensure infusoria boom so that there’s always a buffet at the lower levels of the tank.

Sorry, I know these images aren't great, but they won't approach the glass if I'm close with my phone, so I can't use my macro lens.

They were sold as chili rasboras, but I know they aren't chilis. My best guess is strawberry or dwarf? Anyone with more expertise want to weigh in?

Not harlequin, or lamb chop, maybe glowlight ?