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Rainbow Dace….Cyprinella lutrensis

Common name: Red shiner, rainbow dace, horse-head minnow, red horse minnow or shiner, rosysided dace, Asian fire barb, African fire barb, redfin giant danio, blue dace, shiner (note that the red shiner is not a dace, minnow, barb, or danio!)
Scientific/Latin names: Cyprinella lutrensis, formerly Notropis lutrensis
Maximum length: 2 to 4 inches (usually 3)
Colors: Greenish brown, red and blue on breeding males
Temperature preference: 33 to 77 degrees F, 60 to 77 degrees F preferred
pH preference: 7 to 7.5
Hardness preference: Medium to hard
Compatibility: Good
Life span: 3 to 4 years
Ease of keeping: Easy
Ease of breeding: Easy

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sans-vertigo: “ Blue-Eye (Pseudomugil genus) Appreciation Post Super rad, small shoaling fish endemic to fresh and brackish waters in northern regions of Australia and New Guinea. Males exhibit a set of very flashy fins, occasionally sparring and...
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sans-vertigo: “ Blue-Eye (Pseudomugil genus) Appreciation Post Super rad, small shoaling fish endemic to fresh and brackish waters in northern regions of Australia and New Guinea. Males exhibit a set of very flashy fins, occasionally sparring and...
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sans-vertigo: “ Blue-Eye (Pseudomugil genus) Appreciation Post Super rad, small shoaling fish endemic to fresh and brackish waters in northern regions of Australia and New Guinea. Males exhibit a set of very flashy fins, occasionally sparring and...
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sans-vertigo: “ Blue-Eye (Pseudomugil genus) Appreciation Post Super rad, small shoaling fish endemic to fresh and brackish waters in northern regions of Australia and New Guinea. Males exhibit a set of very flashy fins, occasionally sparring and...
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sans-vertigo: “ Blue-Eye (Pseudomugil genus) Appreciation Post Super rad, small shoaling fish endemic to fresh and brackish waters in northern regions of Australia and New Guinea. Males exhibit a set of very flashy fins, occasionally sparring and...
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Blue-Eye (Pseudomugil genus) Appreciation Post

Super rad, small shoaling fish endemic to fresh and brackish waters in northern regions of Australia and New Guinea. Males exhibit a set of very flashy fins, occasionally sparring and displaying with other males of a shoal. In the aquarium trade there are variants in color and finnage within the same species depending on the isolated areas original specimens are collected from.

Info + image source on each species in order of appearance:
Pseudomugil furcatus
Pseudomugil cyanodorsalis
Pseudomugil gertrudae
Pseudomugil signifer
Pseudomugil tenellus

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