IDENTIFY MY BARB AND LEPORINUS PLEASE

santoury

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Y'all did great identifying my Raiamas, and my Leporinus moralesi... but I'd love to have the next two identified.


First : is a funky Leporinus - 6 inch range - Basically just a silvery gray fish. A hint of darker silvery gray banding. With a yellow throat. These are his NORMAL, HAPPY colors. Bands are pretty wide - so that the gray/silver / gray/silver banding is pretty even throughout, but basically the whole fish looks a single washed-out gray silver color. C'mon guys - the yellow throat has to be a dead giveaway for something!

Second - another funky fish - a barb type. Visualize a checker barb on steroids. He is pretty streamlined 3 1/2 inch range (he is obviously a baby) silvery, black checkered pattern throughout, with a dark gray lateral stripe. Dorsal fin is like a Tinfoil's - red tipped with black.

The barb type is surprisingly aggressive - bossing small jellybean convicts and tilapias around.
 

Oxyeleotris

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Leporinus wolfei (Wolfs Leporinus). Baensch Aquarium Atlas Vol.4 page 62

Grey/silver body, faded bands and yellowish gill/throat area.
 

santoury

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Can anyone post pictures of this fish? I cannot find some other than the few on Google which are basically a silver fish with black bars, which is not my fish. Further pictures would be telling.
Thanks
 
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