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The Rainbow Fish is a children's picture book drawn and written by Swiss author and illustrator, Marcus Pfister, and translated into English by J. Alison James.The book is best known for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish.
In a home setting, these fish need well-oxygenated water with a pH level of 6.8 – 7.2, optimal temperatures varying between 72 and 82 °F (22 and 28 °C), and plenty of aquatic plants to give them hiding places amid their school. If properly cared for, Rainbowfish can live up to 5 years in captivity. [5]
Rainbow Fish (also known simply as "Rainbow") (voiced by Rhys Huber) is a proud and feisty 9-year-old male fish with shiny scales, and the main character of the series. He lives with his parents, Sol and Aqua, and his 12-year-old sister, Ruby, in a cave near Shipwreck Park.
The Waigeo rainbowfish (Melanotaenia catherinae) is a species of rainbowfish in the subfamily Melanotaeniinae.It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia.It reaches a maximum length of around 7.5 cm. [2] This species was described as Rhombatractus catherinae in 1910 by Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort from a type locality which was given as a rivulet flowing into the Rabial River in Waigeo.
Melanotaenia duboulayi, the crimson-spotted rainbowfish, less commonly known as the Duboulay's rainbowfish, [2] is a species of freshwater fish endemic to coastal eastern Australia, although M. duboulayi has also been kept as an aquarium fish since the early 20th century, and is the original "Australian rainbowfish".
The species was initially thought to be extinct due to predation by native fishes—including the Barred Grunter (Amniataba percoides) and Mouth Almighty (Glossamia aprion)—illegally translocated to Lake Eacham in the 1980s. [2]
The male is considered to have more of a vivid, rainbow color than the females do. This species typically has a blue back with pale, yellow fins. [4] The diet of this species is unknown, but it is assumed that they feed on small insects and vegetation such as algae. [5] [6]
The females are less colourful than the malesd and are a silvery colour with no markings. The males are larger and have deeper bodies than the females. The males can grow to a maximum standard length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) while the females are normally less than 8 centimetres (3.1 in). [ 2 ]