Got sold these lil guys as chilis and they have been living with me for 2 and a half months now. They've grown bigger in size but some of them stayed paler than others- look at p3. Are they just still young juvenile? Female? Or do I have a mixed shoal of least rasboras?

Appreciate the help!

18 Chili Rasboras living in my community tank.

These guys were small and skinny when I got them from a pet store as Chilis and barely had any markings. I was under the impression they are Phoenix Rasboras but then i saw that young chilis frequently had broken markings, which leaves me questioning. Wondering if they are chili's or Phoenix's?

6x harlequin rasbora, increasing the school to 12 next week. After 5 weeks of messing with the water they are finally in!. Can’t wait for them to settle in and colour up. :)

hey guys so I'm wondering if I can get anyone's opinion on what I have here? they were sold to me as chili Rasbora and I'm confident there's a least a few of them in there but can you guys confidently identify any other species? there's a couple in particular that display bright red coloration but for the most part most of them are more pale orangish. do I just got to wait longer for them to mature and color up more? water parameters and temperature should be perfect for them and they all seem happy and healthy. I was expecting them to be more brilliantly red colored by now.

Hey all,

I've had these 10 maculatas for around 2 months now and they have really put on good size. Some are much larger than others, and some are more red than others, but i just assumed that was female vs male.

However some of the bigger ones seem to have 2 spots above the anal fin instead of one. Just looking to confirm they are all the same species, Thanks!

Betta pulchra, Rasbora einthovenii, Boraras maculatus, Channa lucius, Silurichthys indragiriensis, Trichopodus trichopterus, Eugnathogobius siamensis, Channa striata, Parosphromenus tweediei, Trichopsis vittata

Bonus:

Nymphaea nouchali (flower), Neurothemis fluctuans (dragonfly), Anthracoceros albirostris (hornbill)

Hi boraras people

Last night I discovered a tiny little fry in my species only tank (plus some neocaridina).

They've only been in there for about a month, and I did see them get in the mood about a week ago, and they've stayed that way ever since.

Now I have read up on their behavior, but I would love to know from some of you more experienced breeders. How likely are my fry to survive in the current tank conditions?

It is a heavily planted, well established 50L tank, lots of microfauna, weeping and java moss as well as very minimal flow. I have a hang on filter on there, if fry get sucked in, I will be able to find them in there, and that might actually be the safer place for them for the time being 😅

I do have a tank that I could potentially move the parent group to. Is this necessary?

I am not looking to breed dozens of babies, but my current group are around 12 adults, and I wouldn't mind a few more.

Should I just do top offs for the time being? Or are small water changes okay?

Thank you and have a lovely fishy day people

I have a cycled 10 gal tank where I want to get rasboras and cherry shrimp.

Online they are so expensive or not available at all so what is the next best place to get them??

Also is this a good tank set up for boras?

i suspect my LFS sold me three types of rasboras on accident (i don’t mind, just curious about it) !!

my assumption is that the first picture is a phoenix, second is an exclamation point, and third is a chili. (4&5: phoenix, 6: exclamation point, 7: chilis,
7&8: chilis/pheonix) am i incorrect? barely researched the visual differences other than a quick search and glancing at them LOL

any care differences if so? and will they discriminate (bought 5 more “chilis” to give my 4 chilis some more friends, worried they might not shoal together as well?) it’s my first time keeping any kind of nano fish so sorry for my misunderstandings!

I brought 12 chilli’s home yesterday, this morning one of them is hanging out at the surface and doesn’t seem to be able to keep his body horizontal.

Tank was cycled for 2 months moderately planted and has a couple pest snails. I drove about 40 mins home with the chilli’s keeping them in the dark, after bringing them in I let them get used to light gradually for 5 mins before I temp acclimatised them in the tank for 15 mins and then dropped cups of my tank water for another 15-20mins before scooping them out and releasing into my tank. I kept lights off yesterday and overnight and haven’t fed yet.

Before I went to bed most of them were still hiding in the plants but a couple that i could see were hanging out on the bottom of the tank. This morning a couple more are visible including some swimming mid tank, still a few hiding and a couple at the bottom but one guy is consistently at the top of the tank.

I’ve checked my parameters and all looks good. Filter is working and making air ripples on surface. The tank isn’t 100% clear because the sand got stirred up yesterday, and there is a fair bit of algae. I’ve turned the light off again in the hopes it might de-stress him a bit but is there anything else I can do? Should I avoid feeding for a little while?

Can anyone tell whether these are true chilli’s or another micro boraras?

Aquatics store sold them labeled as chilli’s but in the past they have told me they struggle to get pure chilli’s and rather have mixed micro rasboras but most are least rasboras. I’ve just brought these guys home and am curious at what I’ve got!

I have an approx. 8 gallon densely planted tank with 6 pygmys

Want to add some more fish- I'm considering 6-8 chillis or cpds but not sure which to get. Cpds look better and are bigger so they're more visible but I heard they're very shy. My pygmys are always in hiding, I want to be able to see my fish. Any advice?

Advice needed.

6 gallon tank, half heavily planted, half littered with sweetgum, alder cone, mopani wood scraps.

Fluval stratum substrate about 1.5” thick sprinkled with tiny pebbles.

Spiderwood hardscape.

6 Chili Rasboras, ~30 juvenile cherry shrimp and 3 adults, and 2 horned nerite snails.

Filter is a tiny HOB cartridge filter with ceramic rings added.

Exclusively distilled water with a measured TDS of 4 for water changes

Feedings are small, LFS that sold me the fish(they’re a large online retailer that I just so happen to live near the distribution center that is also brick and mortar LFS) says I may even be underfeeding them.

PH: 6.3
Ammonia: ~0
NO3: ~0
NO2: ~0
TDS: …250 (it was 350 last night, a 40% water change brought it down to 190, but it’s back up to 250 already.)

This problem has existed the entire life of the tank. What am I doing wrong here?

Does anyone have any experience? They would be together in a 60L tank that is fully planted.

My concern is that they will get eaten!

2 weeks in my tank. Purchased as chillis. Were extremely small when i got em

Okay I did what yall recommended me to do,like add a bigger rock in the back and trim the plants,and well it looks amazing like this thank you for the suggestions!I even got a new light which makes the tank look so much better.But I have a question can I add chili rasboras? I wanna see fish in there but if not it’s okay I’ll get more shrimp lol.

I'll start by saying young fish are always a challenge to identify. On another post here, I recently said I sourced some chilis from Blackwater Aquatics. Ten days after delivery they are starting to color up nicely. They are still in quarantine so much easier to photograph than my main shoal. They seem to be not quite chilis and not quite leasts to me this morning. From what I see online, chilis have red dots on their caudal and dorsal fins, which these do not have. These fish are also more coppery in overall tone than true red. Also, no least rasbora I have seen has the reddish body streak underneath the black streak like these fish do. Are we thinking these are just juvenile chilis coming into their coloration, or possible least/ chili hybrids?

I want to get chilis for my tank, but don’t know where to get them. Where are peeps getting theirs?