Rainbow Fish - Melanotaeniidae

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.