Can you identify my fish please??

[phishrcute]

Hi, I bought some fish and was told that they were "albino beacons", but I can't find any info about them. The lfs I got them from also calls African Dwarf Frogs 'Congo Frogs', so I think they make up their own names! The fish is a hardy community fish, seems to be a top swimmer, and is white or see-through. You can clearly see its spine. It's about a centimetre long. I THINK it may be a tetra of some kind?? Can anyone help??

I think I have attached a photo of it! Actually there are two in the photo, it is not some two headed freak!!


Thanks a million!!

 

[discus4everGrl]

Hard to tell from the pics, but it does look like a tetra. Some juvenile lemon tetras show as white.

 

[fishtankmaster5]

i think it is most likely an albino Buenos Aires Tetra

 

[phishrcute]

Mmmm thanks but I don't think it is either of these as they are see through at the back like ghost cats. Thanks anyway.

 

[fishtankmaster5]

i am a 100% sure it is a tetra, and the more i look at it, i strongly believe it is an albino Buenos Aires Tetra

 

[angel51431]

They look very much like young albino Pristellas to me. As a matter of fact, I am pretty sure because they've got the body type, and the yellow band on the dorsal fins, with a milky-white band on top (that would normally be black). Pristellas are normally see-through, hence their other name, x-ray tetras.

Very nice little guys, one of my personal favorites as far as tetras go - they should get less shy and more active as they get used to everything. And yeah, they're pretty damn hardy. I've had three of these guys (the non-albino variety) for prolly a year and a half now, and never have I had a problem with them.

 

[fishtankmaster5]

they are not albino pristella because what you thinking about is a gold pristella, i have had them before and they do not have the albino eyes like the ones in the pic do

 

[namukoby]

I think they look like x-ray tetras, like this one:

http://www.greenparktropical.com/Fish/images/Tetra/X-Ray Pristella.jpg

or maybe albino pristellas like mentioned before:

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgu...t=3&prev=/images?q=x-ray+tetra&hl=en&lr=&sa=G.

They aren't the Pristella Maxillaris, with the black, white and yellow stripes, though.

 

[ashleigh]

I was going to say albino glow lights.

 

[discus4everGrl]

You can find info on this fish if you type in beacon tetra in the search engine. Don't type albino.

 

[angel51431]

I dunno, they still look very much Pristella to me. Could be the Buenos Aires one, i guess - I'd vouch for it if I was more familiar with those fish.

and as a sidenote, namukoby, pristellas and x-ray tetras are the same fish, just two different names

 

[phishrcute]

Thanks for all the help! It is very confusing - and a lot of the names seem to be the same fish with different monikers!! Thanks again. I've decided to stick with the name beacon fish and treat them as a tetra!!!! They seem to be doing ok on it for the moment.

 

[ashleigh]

well there's no question they are a tetra species- we just can't decide which one