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Wild small Galasin in South America
Text & Photography: Wang Zhongjing (Taiwan)
Glass Blood Heart Flag
paepkei hyphessobrycon
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I didn't expect that this kind of flag-pulling lamp fish, which was occasionally imported from Peru in the early days, would become so popular after years of not being imported! The pink body color with a hint of transparency, the metallic luster of the body surface like a little cobalt blue bright powder, and the glass-like transparent orange chest spot on the chest make this flag pulling the most popular small fish species at present. The male's dorsal fin and fin extend larger, which can be distinguished from the female, and when the two strongs boast of each other, they will show a more intense color; like pink neon, the body color is better in dim light. The maximum body length is about 5cm.
Pink neon lights
hemigrammus coeruleus
Pink neon should be the hottest light fish in the near future after the glass blood heart! I don't know why, the fish that no one wanted for a long time in the aquarium, after a few years, I didn't see it, and once it suddenly appeared, it immediately became hot! Pink neon lights are distributed in the upper-middle tributaries of Nigro (San Gabriel or where I forget). This species can occasionally be found in the red lotus lamp and is thought to be a red line lamp, but the small fish is said to be more large and can be distinguished from the red eye gold thread lamp.
Strong male fish will appear black at the edges of each fin and appear blue-white at the end after adapting to the environment, the body color will begin to ooze blood from the buttocks and gradually spread throughout the body, the red line on the side of the body will become bright, and the outer edges of each of its unpaired fins will also be set with thick black frame lines, which is in contrast to the bright red body color; as for the female fish, it is better to treat them as red line lights... In addition, according to the author's experience, most of this fish will have extremely bright red performance when the light is dim or when the lights are just turned on, and the overly bright environment will make them less likely to show color, which may be the protective color formed by their long-term habitat in the blackwater river area. It is easy to raise and easy to accept for all kinds of bait, but the speed of grabbing food is extremely fast, and it should not be raised with small fish with too quiet or slow personalities. The maximum body length is about 5cm.
Black-tailed purple lemon lamp
hyphessobrycon sp. pastel lily tetra
The black-tailed purple lemon lamp alias purple lily lamp seems to have not been entered for a while! It has been mistaken for hyphessobrycon frankei in the past, but may actually be a fish species that has not yet been described. The presence or absence of spots on the tail stalk can be similar to another species — hyphessobrycon sp. pink lemon) makes a difference. This time, the body shape is good and the hair color is good. The photographic body is 4cm long.
Tearful eye tricolor lamp
hyphessobrycon sp. boqueron
The phantom eye tricolor lamp family of fish species, first imported from Peru in 2010, is known as the tear eye tricolor lamp due to the obvious black tear spot pattern on the chest. The body axis of this species has a yellow-orange bright band, and the lower part of the bright band also has a black band extension from behind the tear spot, and the abdomen shows a black shadow, and the unpaired fin face also shows an orange tone.
Black Star Golden Armor Lamp / Black Pill Two-point lamp
hyphessobrycon langeanii
This time the Black Star Golden Armor Lamp is actually a black pill two-point lamp imported 7 years ago, the scientific name is hyphessobrycon langeanii, the scientific name provided by the exporter hy. Lageanii is misplaced. Mato grosso, which is distributed in the upper reaches of the Rio Araguaia River in Brazil, although the head looks round and blunt, is cute and small, but the personality is quite ferocious, not only does the species like to fight each other, but even other fish species. The male fish has a yellow body surface, and the female fish seems to be less yellow.
Thorn lights
hemigrammus sp.
Fingerlings from the Hemigrammus ocellifer species group from Peru, which is not the first to be imported, but is also uncommon. The appearance is similar to the head and tail lamp, there are also spots and bright spots on the chest and tail handle, and the upper iris is also bright red, the main difference is in the body shape and head shape: compared with the rounded head and tail lamp, the stinging lamp body width is lower, the angle above the head is more straight, so it feels that the upper body shape is more pointed and long. It is not difficult to raise and can be kept with other small lightfish.
Blue steel red (tail) flag
hyphessobrycon weitzmanorum
A new species of flag pulling, which was only described in 2003, was distributed in the upper reaches of the Aragua River in Brazil, and at that time it was the same species as two other fish species , hy. Eilyo was published along with the Black Star Golden Armor Lamp/Black Pill Two-Point Lamp (hyphessobrycon langeanii). Although the Chinese named by the trader has the word "red flag", this species is actually similar to the hyphessobrycon flammeus, and the red flag (hy. eques) are more distantly related; in addition, the red on their fins does not resemble a similar species published in the same period — hy. Eilyos is so bright red, only a faint dark red.
Their body surface emits a mysterious, dark dark blue, it is difficult to describe this hue in words, and this body color rarely appears in ornamental fish, and the exporter calls it "cobalt griemi tetra", if it is me, it may be directly called "cobalt blue dream flag" to be more memorable; but the point is that the individual shot this time is very small, only one centimeter, not to deceive you! It's really only about a centimeter! Adults should be larger. Rarely photographing such a small and fast fish, feeling a little tired of chasing... And they are small in size, but the territoriality is also quite strong, and from time to time I see two fish dancing a war dance, which is quite brilliant!
Red-winged brass lamp
hyphessobrycon cf. bifasciatus
Although the brass lamp imported this time is known as the red wing (tail) type, when the fish is actually received, the color on the fins is not as obvious as I thought. In the past, there was much debate about whether the red-wing brass lamp and the general yellowfin brass lamp that had been imported were the same kind of fish, but after observing the individuals who were imported this time, I suddenly realized that the so-called brass lamp with the so-called red-finned performance may be just a juvenile expression of the brass lamp. That is to say, the juvenile fish of the brass lamp may have red and yellow type ii performance, but in the process of growth, the red of the red fin type will gradually fade, so the adults who have been imported in the past can not see the red fin individuals at all, but the smaller the imported individual size, the brighter the fish fin performance. This may require aquarists with red-wing brass lamp breeding experience to confirm it!
Nigro blacktail scissors
It feels like a miniature version of Galasin of the small Southeast Asian carp family, the rasbora trilineata, and from the species mixed with it, it can be inferred that it may have come from the Rio Negro in Brazil, and relevant information is lacking. It seems that this species has been imported in the past, but most of the individuals who have just been imported at that time have serious depressions and poor fish conditions, so not many have survived, and it feels that they are species that need to be fed a small number of meals, in addition, there is not much difficulty in breeding. The photographic body is 3.5cm long.
Purple-core cranberry lamp
hyphessobrycon frankei?
The New Peruvian Lamp Fish, which has not been imported in the form of a single product in the past, was imported in batches for the first time (Chinese common name I combined a purple-core lily lamp and a blue-diamond cranberry lamp to become a purple-core cranberry lamp). Due to the similar body shape, body color and tail stalk spots, at first glance, people will mistakenly think that it is a black-tailed purple lemon lamp (purple core lily lamp), but in addition to the longitudinal and transverse shape of the tail stalk spot that runs through the center of the tail fin is different from the black-tailed purple lemon, the transverse black spots on the chest are also relatively small. What is the identity of this purple-core cranberry lamp?
In the past the black-tailed purple lemon lamp had been misidentified as the hyphessobrycon frankei described in 1997, possibly subject to it http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/tierkunde/ichthyologie/publikationen/72_hyp_frankei.pdf (German can't understand) the aquarium fish photo on this article is misleading, because the individual in the picture looks so similar to the black-tailed purple lemon lamp! In reality, however, the black-tailed purple lemon should come from near São Paulo, southeast of Brazil, rather than Peru on the other side of the South American continent. Which fish is the hyphessobrycon frankei? Using hyphessobrycon frankei to estimate the dog, most of the pictures that appear are what we commonly call the Jono Arthur lamp, but the scientific name of the Jono Arthur lamp should be hy. robustulus instead of hy. Frankei, so obviously a lot of people misunderstood. The Japanese miscellaneous lamp website http://www.geocities.jp/zakkycharacin/05060403.html shows that the purple-core cranberry lamp was imported into Japan in 2005 and is produced in Pucallpa, Peru. Pucallpa is a large city on the rio ucayali, and there are many Peruvian fish from this place (such as the black-throated princess bream), which happens to be the same location as the pattern origin indicated when hyphessobrycon frankei was published. If the Japanese website is correct, I can't think of other fish species other than purple-cored redberry lamps for lampfish that are of the same origin and look similar to black-tailed purple lemon lamps. So you ask me if the purple-core cranberry lamp is hyphessobrycon frankei, and I think the probability is very high! The photographic body is 2.5cm long.
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