Coral Red Pencil Fish

[RTD]

Does anyone keep or breed these beautiful fish (Coral Red Pencil Fish)? Looking for some info about them.

 

[wethumbs]

If you are refering to Nannostomus mortenthaleri, then I do breed them from time to time. They are not particularly hard to breed. The hard part is getting good breeding stock. WC fish has a very high fatality rate particularly among the females making them mostly (if not all) males by the time you see them in the LFS.

 

[gerald]

I've found them to be quite hardy (IF they survive collecting & transport stress) but surprisingly vicious (among their own kind) for a pencilfish. Imagine a Mexican or Buenos Aires tetra attitude in a pencilfish body. I have not spawned them, but some day ...
The other new red pencil called "coral 2" (rubrocaudatus) is more peaceful like typical pencilfish (in my very limited experience).