What is this?

[sairving]

Initially, I thought this was a white cloud fry but now I'm not so sure. I bought plants from lfs a few months back. Starting to think this little one was a hitchhiker. Yay free fish! Any ideas what the of fish this is. Its not a neon is it?

[Lennie]

That looks like a white cloud to me.

Your light might be showing off the stripe color much brighter. Usually lighting changes the look of the fish a lot. Especially when the fish is very close to light source, just like the picture where it is swimming on the top

bottom half is not red, so it does not look like a neon tetra.

Neither does its body shape tbf.

[mountaintoppufferkeeper]

Id vote whitecloud as well. Bonus fish cant beat that

[Biotope Biologist]

White cloud I thirdend… here is my WCMM fry for reference. 9 weeks old:

 

The fry seem to have a bright neon blue stripe that fades to a white/red iridescence with age. Although if the stripe stays blue like this into adulthood some people collect those to breed. There are some cool strains of WCMM out there

Edited June 25, 2023 by Biotope Biologist

[sairving]

On 6/25/2023 at 11:14 AM, mountaintoppufferkeeper said:

Id vote whitecloud as well. Bonus fish cant beat that

I like bonus fish lol.

On 6/25/2023 at 11:34 AM, Biotope Biologist said:

White cloud I thirdend… here is my WCMM fry for reference. 9 weeks old:

 

The fry seem to have a bright neon blue stripe that fades to a white/red iridescence with age. Although if the stripe stays blue like this into adulthood some people collect those to breed. There are some cool strains of WCMM out there

That's would be cool if the stripe stayed blue. The WCMM I currently have started out white but are now chocolate brown.