White Cloud Mountain Minnow
Tanichthys albonubes
Cyprinidae
About
The White Cloud Mountain Minnow is a hardy, colourful cyprinid originally from cool, fast-flowing streams around Guangzhou in southern China. Reaching only about 4 cm, it wears a bright lateral stripe and red-tipped fins that intensify when males display to one another. Because it hails from subtropical mountain waters it thrives at room temperature and is one of the very few community fish that can be kept unheated, making it an outstanding first shoaling species.
Care
Keep a shoal of 8+ in an unheated, gently flowing planted tank; cool water actually deepens their colour.
Diet
Micro-omnivore that readily accepts quality flake and micro-pellets; enrich with baby brine shrimp, daphnia and microworm for peak colour.
Tankmate compatibility
Gets along with (2)
Possible with care (37)
Avoid (2)
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