Rainbow fish comes from Papua. This fish is very beautiful
and exotic. If you have a hobby of maintaining and cultivating ornamental
fish, these fish can be an alternative option. Not only beautiful
and exotic, this fish is also kind and easy to maintain. There are many types
of rainbow fish, some of them: red rainbow (glossolepis incisus), rainbow
bosemani, rainbow threadfin, rainbow neon, rainbow frukata, rainbow Celebes, and
rainbow Gertrude. Red rainbow comes from sentani lake, and some another islands
in Papua and New Guinea. Red rainbow fish was found by Weber in 1908. This
fish is a peacemaker
fish and very suitable
for aquascaping.
To distinguish
between male and female fish is
by looking at the color scales or the fish body.
Male fish has a bright
red color, while
the female fish with fins pale yellow
transparent. This fish has a characteristic
yellow half blue
and half red.
Rainbow boesemani male have upper and lower fins have more elongated,
and the red is
more prominent than the females. Rainbow threadfin have a beautiful color, flat body posture, long filamentous
fins on the bottom,
and have a small
tube-shaped mouth. Rainbow neon
looks like rainbow boesemani. It called dwarf rainbow, because it has small
body. Rainbow frukata is like rainbow Celebes, swam up to the surface and moves slowly.
This fish has a longer and wider top
and bottom fins and has a more subtle color
than the females. This type has beautiful
fins, the color of the body is yellow with black spots and it has blue eyes. It
is called spotted blue-eye rainbow. Gertrudae also looks like rainbow Celebes, that distinguishes them are the
color of the eyes, the fins color, and its move.
Rainbow fish is easily cultivated. This fish laid their eggs on plants
that grow in fresh
water, such as moss or the other.
