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✅ The forktailed rainbowfish, Pseudomugil furcatus, is easy to breed, beautifully colored and relatively hardy
✅ Providing that this fish is transferred over to its new aquarium home slowly, it will adapt to a wide range of water conditions ranging from soft and slightly acidic water to hard and alkaline
✅ Forktailed rainbowfish are native to Peria Creek and the Kwagira River of eastern Papua New Guinea
✅ they exist in the wild in only a very small geographic area in Milne Bay Province
✅ They occasionally travel into nearby rivers and tributaries, probably as a result of drainage among the different waterways
✅ These fish prefer slow-moving streams lined with heavy vegetation; these environments make it easy for them to find their favorite foods: zooplankton, phytoplankton, and invertebrates
✅ ery few forktailed rainbowfish are collected in the wild. Because they are easy to breed, they are bred at fish farms for the aquarium trade
✅ The forktailed rainbowfish is a very attractive species with blue eyes, a silvery body, and bright yellow stripes on the top and bottom of the body in the breeding season. Two upturned almost wing-like pectoral fins, bright yellow in color along with bright yellow dorsal fins in breeding season make these little gems great additions to any community aquarium
✅ Forktailed rainbowfish are a shoaling species and should be kept with six to ten of their own kind
✅ A generally peaceful fish, they can live comfortably with smaller goby or catfish species, danios, tetras, rasboras, dwarf cichlids, and other small rainbowfish