Identify Rainbow Fish

[petunia100]

Can someone help me with the id of these rainbow fish?

They were identified as red rainbow and turquoise rainbow at the lfs. However fish base doesn't have turquoise rainbow as a common name that I could find and I couldn't find it in the photos. The red rainbow, there are several "red" rainbowfish and I'm not sure either, I have a couple of guesses but I'd like to hear what you think. I don't know if either of them are mature or not. Thanks for the help.

 

[Tiffi]

I have found several pictures that look close to your fish:
1) http://ausyfish.com/rainbows.htm (here called opals?)
2) http://www.soe-townsville.org/louisacreekwatch/images/Melanotaenia%20splendida%20(Eastern%20Rainbowfish).jpg (here called an Eastern Rainbow fish)

Finally these are called goyder river rainbow:
3) http://www.asw.ca/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=engstrom&id=00_00023
4) http://oddballfish.com/fishdetail.mv?01C4E54946E9402200000D0C00000000+gydrriv_med

5) http://madhunag.tripod.com/goyderriverrainbow.html

I really think yours are # 3, 4 and 5. The specimen you have there is still very young and will soon get the darker line along the side of his body.

Hope I could help

 

[petunia100]

Thanks, I'm hoping it's not the Eastern rainbowfish, as they get pretty big. I"m keep an eye on it and post more pictures later. How long do rainbow fish typically take to mature? We've had it at least two months and it hasn't changed very much.

Thanks for the links!