ID The fish is saved please!

[jaketetra28]

Hi so yesterday I saved some fish from a local on Kijiji, and she said they were tetras but they turned out to be swordtails and platys. They have really different colourings and I can't seem to find them on the internet

They are quarantined right now because they didn't come from the cleanest water, some of the fins were rough, and the platys scales were missing bc I later watched the swordtails nipping at them.



Two of the three swordtails are this colour



The 3rd swordtail is the one at the back, it's silver/white to orange



These are the two platys, one I believe has ICH, so I treated the tank just in case and I've seen improvement in the activity, I've treated them with some freshwater salt by API, and some Melafix by API which will help the fins/scales, also some nox-ich which has helped.

Thanks!

 

[freshfindles]

They look like red brick swordtails.

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/livebearers/swordtails.php

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[jaketetra28]

Thanks they do look like a brick red swordtail!

 

[CPryor]

Could the third one be a neon sword tail? Can't see any detail, but ours tend toward orange/silver, without the blue/green you see in some. And the platys look like sunburst wags to me....not sure. Pretty fish, in any case!

 

[Bambinojake]

One looks like a neon swordtail

 

[jaketetra28]

Thanks everyone!




The only difference is the "sword" with mine only having one black line

 

[jaketetra28]

Looking at this Wikipedia article you were right about the platys being a wagtail platy, but they look more like these type of platy which are a variant of the blue wagtail platy. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platy_(fish) Under the aquaria section

Thanks again!