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This should be pretty easy. We have a tropical fish tank, and among a few other species we have an adult pair of these guys. The female is a live-bearer, and seems to be giving birth to two young at a time. However, I can't for the life of me remember what kind of fish they are.

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The male is in the foreground, and the female in the background. Any ideas?

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I believe it is a Red Wag Platy (Xiphophorus maculatus)

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This looks like a Red Wag Platy (Xiphophorus maculatus). Apparently it is a common tropical aquarium fish. Wikipedia does not show a picture of this variant. However a google image search with this will return the images of fish that you have shown.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for the confirmation, you are correct. I accepted the other answer because yours was posted 10 seconds too late - I doubt you'll mind, though :) $\endgroup$
    – MattDMo
    Commented May 1, 2016 at 20:51
  • $\begingroup$ @MattDMo No prob. I realized that after a few minutes and I thought I'll delete mine but someone upvoted. So I thought I'll let it stay :P $\endgroup$
    – WYSIWYG
    Commented May 2, 2016 at 5:09

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