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Rainbow fish in aquarium. Rainbowfish usually do best with tropical community fish, such as tetras, guppies, and other rainbowfish. However, two males may sometimes fight at breeding season if there are not enough females. Rainbowfish usually eat floating flakes in captivity, because in the wild they will often eat insects floating on the surface.
It is known under a number of common names including diamond rainbowfish, [3] neon rainbowfish, Praecox rainbowfish, dwarf neon rainbowfish, peacock rainbowfish, and Teczanka neonowa. [4] It is endemic to the Mamberamo River basin in West Papua in Indonesia [ 2 ] and common in the aquarium trade.
Melanotaenia boesemani G. R. Allen & N. J. Cross, 1980 (Boeseman's rainbowfish) Melanotaenia bowmani G. R. Allen, Unmack & Hadiaty, 2016 (Bowman's rainbowfish) [3] Melanotaenia caerulea G. R. Allen, 1996 (Blue rainbowfish) Melanotaenia catherinae (de Beaufort, 1910) (Waigeo rainbowfish) Melanotaenia corona G. R. Allen, 1982 (Corona rainbowfish)
A Boesemani rainbowfish in an aquarium. M. boesemani is also available in the aquarium hobby, where it is prized for its excellent colours and peaceful demeanor. The colour pattern is completely different from most other forms of rainbowfish, as it has a half orange-red rear and a bluish-grey or purple front which in some specimens is almost defined perfectly.
Australian rainbowfish usually do best with tropical community fish, such as tetras, guppies, and other rainbowfish. However, two males may sometimes fight at breeding season if there are not enough females. Australian rainbowfish usually eat floating flakes in captivity, because in the wild they will often eat insects floating on the surface.
Melanotaenia maccullochi, the dwarf rainbowfish or McCulloch's rainbowfish, is a species of rainbow fish in the family Melanotaeniidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was described by James Douglas Ogilby in 1915 when he received two samples from Mr. A. Anderson and the fish was named after the ichthyologist Allan Riverstone McCulloch .
Kessler, K. T., 1860: A zoological voyage to the northern coast of the Black Sea and Crimea in 1858. Kyiv : 1–248, Pls. 1–2. Murgoci, A. A., 1940: Étude sur quelques espèces du genre Lepadogaster de la mer Noire.
The black-banded rainbowfish (Melanotaenia nigrans) is a species of rainbowfish belonging to the subfamily Melanotaeniidae. The species is endemic to Australia . Importantly, the species is the type species of the genus Melanotaenia .