Help identify fish

[memeaquarist]

Can you help me identify this fish? I two of them today for my 20 gallon tank. Care recommendations or anything I should know about them? They seem to be doing well! They are swimming by the filter and don’t seem to be interacting with others or the plants/ environment.

 

[coralbandit]

Looks like a type of pencil fish..
Nannostomus beckfordi would be my guess.

 

[Angellove78]

Siamese algae eater they call them flying fox. That's y it's by ur filter. Pretty sure that's what it is.

 

[memeaquarist]

Siamese algae eater they call them flying fox. That's y it's by ur filter. Pretty sure that's what it is.

Thank you so much! They are very slow swimmers and my glofish (danios) are starting fin nipping them... what should I do? They have always been kind of aggressive.

 

[Angellove78]

Any fish bigger then them will eat them. If u got another tank or maybe even a fish bowl (with some kinda lid) put them little guys in there. Or get a divider or make 1 yourself. Look up DIY dividers. There's lots of ideas there. U probably got something around the house to use. Just make sure what ever u use the water can flow through to be able to cycle. Them little guys get bigger. Not sure on size though. Dividers r an easy fix.

 

[Fresh2o]

I concur with the Pencilfish identification (in this case, N. unifasciatus). I would either return them or remove (sell, give away, trade) the danios. Pencilfish do well with abundant plants and should be housed with other Nannostomus and smaller tetras.

 

[memeaquarist]

I concur with the Pencilfish identification (in this case, N. unifasciatus). View attachment 304198 I would either return them or remove (sell, give away, trade) the danios. Pencilfish do well with abundant plants and should be housed with other Nannostomus and smaller tetras.

Thank you! I am now sure that it’s a Golden Pencilfish. I’m concerned about their diet. They are not eating the flakes.

 

[Angellove78]

Flying Fox's eat Green algae. algae wafers, algae based flakes, whiter worms. Oh yeah, they can get up to 6" and it there's more than 1 of them in a tank, they can get territorial.