#pencilfish

[palaeoplushies]

I finally made some long out of stock, but often requested Gold Laser Corydoras, as well as some not so requested Golden pencilfish!! These and some other fish are available over here: https://www.palaeoplushies.com/

[fishreblogsstuff]

Fishuary day 16

sorry I’m late I just had living to do

pencilfish are cool

[indigo-a-creeping]

[gasterofficial]

want to get pencilfish even more now after misreading the family name as lesbianidae

[psalidodont]

no blenny :pensive:, i got some softies and a few cherry barbs for my shitty little community tank tho,,,, and they also gave me a pencilfish by accident.............. i win...........................................

[djungelscog]

HELLO! i am unfamiliar w fish but what about these guys? 🐟🐠🐡 do you have to catch fish that look like those? talk abt fish i wanna hear it all!!!!!

HELLO....... hmm. !!!!!! fish :) iʼm not an expert on fish (I don't know anything about them.) & iʼm a bit goofy & can't really remember all the fish in stock at work but ill try my bitchiest.....for U.

the blue guy kind of looks enough like a tetra to justify talking about tetras so let's start w them!

id: a school (group) of cardinal tetras. end id.

essentially in my experience small fish in a big group r easiest to catch because we have large nets. it's a case of a big scoop & using a lil net to get however many fishes wanted into the bag 4 a customer yk. However. if there's one in a tank of similar looking ones bc the fucker jumped out of its original tank. Kill yourself fish i hate you

id: a group of five hockeystick pencilfish in a tank. end id.

i like these tetras. hockeystick pencilfish. when a customer came in asking for them it was when i found out we had them & that they exist & the excitement i felt? yea. good fish very cute. over all 6/10 for catching normlly & 3/10 for bastardly behaviours

2ND GUY LOOKS LIKE A WEE ANGELFISH :) i like them they're quite easy to catch bc they're a bit large. a bit fat. very pretty though

id: a school of angelfish. end id.

very beautiful very powerful. iʼm fond of them. only flaw is that they're in the top row of tanks which means i have to use a step stool to get up & because they need furnished tanks there's the Big Rocks n shit in there that is so. so difficult to manouver around. 7/10 for catching & 3/10 for rocks

Last is a puffer........we don't have Beeg puffers in stock (& i wouldn't be allowed to catch them bc i am New & a Part Timer) but. pygmy puffers !!!!

id: a lone pygmy puffer fish. end id.

these guys i have only caught once but it was a nice experience i think? had to use the lil net & it was up top in the nano tanks but they're cute.. look at that face. adorable. 10/10 : 8/10. you know the drill

[feshtunk]

So, this appeared out of nowhere:

Randomly in a little 6gal, only a third filled, no heater, sponge filter

The only thing I had in there were plants, some assorted coldwater ones for my patio pond, some for a British native tank, and then an order of crypts.

I don't know what it is or how it managed to grow to that size, it must have been eating microorganisms in the detritus?

Still trying to ID it, if anyone knows about it? I'm thinking some kind of pencilfish or neolebias?

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Sure, many cypriniformes, largely carps, are invasive in some places, even to great detriment, but that isn’t their fault! They’ve spread due to human interference because we’ve just liked to bring them to places so much, originally for food purposes and to control algal blooms. They’re not invasive everywhere in the world, heck, some are endangered in their native ranges!

..Ah, I'm not really advocating for or against cypriniformes here, just wanted to say that it’s not the animals’ fault. Carps are mighty good at reproducing because they needed that level of reproduction to survive as a species in their native range! Invasive species need to be removed and controlled but you know, the carps themselves didn’t plan out an invasion haha

ALSO ALSO Cypriniformes has so many more fishes than just carps! Minnows and zebrafish and loaches and chubs and roaches and breams and suckers and barbs and asps and many many others! It is one of the more diverse orders at 4 000 species.

Whoops I guess I did end up advocating for Cypriniformes after all, uhh….

Characiformes! Still so many species at 2 000! It has the piranhas and the tetras and the lutefishes and the African pikes and the South American darters and pencilfish and trahiras and vampire tetras!? Whaat!! Fishes big and small adapted to all kinds of niches!

Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Characiformes. This order is made up of often carnivorous fish, such as the piranha, x-ray tetra and lutefish

Cypriniformes. This order is made up of carps and their relatives, such as minnows and loaches.

[fishstims]

pencilfish stim board

for @cryptocoryne-wendtii - credits below - all gifs made by me

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1: kjartan_flatraker on instagram

2: langenbach.videography on instagram

3: heatherinanina on instagram

4: wildfishtanks on instagram

5: the_epic_fishkeeper on instagram

6 & 7: freshwatercolors123 on instagram

8: thekearneyzoo on instagram

9: thehiddenreef on instagram

[thesingingfishtank]

“Lets see if this tank has a lid!”

[palaeoplushies]

Pencil fish.

[bettas-bitsandbobs]

I tried taking photos, and that failed. Then I tried a video. Mostly all I got was curious investigations so close the lens couldn’t focus LOL.

[petzonesd]

Pencil Fish - #Nannostomus The #PencilFish is a great fish to keep in an aquascaped aquarium. These fish are not normally seen in the fish hobby and make great additions to community fish tanks. They prefer softer and slightly acidic water. Size is about 3/4" to an inch. www.petzonesd.com/pencil-fish-nannostomus (at Pet Zone Tropical Fish - Kearny Mesa, San Diego, CA) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtkhociBIC4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3p4nl2y9yn7t

[cyprinella]

Nannostomus eques 6 by Peter Maguire

[thehiddenreefinc]

Pencil Fish #pencilfish #thehiddenreef (at The Hidden Reef, Inc) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2997GupoRr/?igshid=14gq37b9hr0s9

[aquariumadventures]

My favorite thing about microfish is just how very easy they are to photograph...