Could someone please tell me what kind of fish this is. All I know is that it is a Tetra and it is blue.

It's a 'White skirt tetra' that has been subjected to a very cruel marketing practice of dyeing.

Basically, the colour of the fish is white. They have been artificially dyed to whatever colour.... they come in blue, pink, yellows, greens (basically any colour of the rainbow!). The fishes are put in an alkali solution and loose their mucous coat. They are then taken out (half dead), and put into a solution of coloured dye which eats into the skin. They then take the colour of the dye for sometime (many of the fish subjected to it will also die from the procedure later), but will eventually fade back into their original white colour.

While I will not get into the ethics of things here... I do not support the sale or purchasing of artificially dyed fish.... but I'm sure u didn't know they were dyed when you bought it. Just my opinion.

kev

agreed .... cruel to do such a thing ...

This practice of fish dying should never be. If you search the net there are many sites that are trying to stop this mad practice. Here in Toronto they tend to name them after sports teams and movies that are big and all kinds of stupid things. For example they have blue ones like you have there and they call them Blue Jay Tetras (after Toronto's Baseball team). Then they have these pinky-purple ones called Raptor Tetras (after Torontos Basketball team) Then the most recent ones I have seen are called Hulk Tetras and yup you got it, they are green and came out right when the newest Hulk movie was released. You would be shocked to find out what fish are dyed.

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i can't find botia modesta (orange fin loach) anywhere online that is not dyed.

they even dye oscars now!

btw, black skirt and white skirt tetras are great fish! they are very hardy!