Sometimes you almost forget how incredibly beautiful traditional aquarium fish are due to the large number of interesting and colorful new imports.
The Threestripe pencilfish, Nannostomus trifasciatus, is one of the most beautiful of them all. The photographed animals come from Brazil and are exported via Manaus.
For our customers: The fish have code 272305 on our stocklist. Please note that we only supply the wholesale trade.
Lexicon: Nannostomus: from ancient Greek, means “with a tiny mouth”. trifasciatus: Latin, means “with three stripes”.
Common name: Threestripe pencilfish
Text & photos: Frank Schäfer
