The Scissortail is a tough fish, making few demands for any special treatment, and has the added attraction of being quite easily bred.

Above: The Scissortail is very popular even though it lacks any bright colouring.

Like some other fish species, Scissortail Sergeant males are in charge of parental care.

The scissortail now is considered to be a member of the Tyrannus, or "tyrant-like" genus.

At the most extreme level, a male Scissortail Sergeant may cannibalize his entire brood.

Sneaking by other males is a common occurrence in Scissortail Sergeant males.

The Scissortail Rasbora is an entertaining freshwater fish.

In order to increase the propagation of their offspring, Scissortail Sergeant females must also actively select for good fathers.

The genus contains only one species, the dwarf scissortail rasbora or Rasbosoma spilocerca.

I search for color: painted and indigo buntings in the spring, a scissortail swooping off the telephone lines in autumn.

The scissortail rasbora is the common name for a number of species freshwater aquarium fish that belongs to the rasbora family.

Greater scissortail or Rasbora caudimaculata is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Rasbora.

Rasbora caudimaculata (Greater scissortail)

Male Scissortail Sergeant fish undergo brood cycling, in which they alternate between a mating phase and a parental phase.

Experiments that supply provisional food like Scissortail Sergeant eggs and/or crab meat to brooding males lead to a decrease in cannibalism.

Supplementary feeding, however, decreases the energetic costs of raising a brood and can modulate cannibalistic tendencies in Scissortail Sergeant males.

Rasbora rasbora (Gangetic scissortail rasbora)

The Scissortail sergeant or Striptailed damselfish (Abudefduf sexfasciatus, family Pomacentridae) is a large damselfish.

Common names include Scissortail Rasbora and Scissortail Shark.

I too have lost fish - two Sailfin Mollies, three guppies and a Scissortail (which committed suicide, unnoticed when I took the cover off the tank).

Combs records frequently with many artists working in a variety of capacities and can be found on releases from Kinnara Records, Royal Potato Family, Horton Records, and Scissortail Records.

The bluefin driftfish or scissortail, Psenes pellucidus, is a pelagic driftfish of the genus Psenes, found in all the world's oceans at depths down to 1,000 m. Its length is up to 80 cm.