Barbonymus Altus

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Jack Dempsey
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Or red-tail tinfoil barb. Anyone keep these? I just picked up a couple albinos from petsmart for my poly tank. So far they're awesome, swimming all over the place and such. My lone, uncatchable clown loach has even started schooling with them. So, what's everyone's personal experience with these?
 
Big, powerfull, eat lots, destroy plants. Great fish and bullet proof IME.

This was mine one of mine when I sold them

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Got a couple of these in one of my 6x2' tanks, kept em before quite like them. Got them as dithers really to keep the agression down on some of the tankmates, they also school with a trio of large Balantiocheilus melanopterus (silver sharks) and a couple of lemon barbs, a little scrapping between themselves at points nothing serious though.

Also i have a 12" ornate bichir in there aswell they do fine together.
 
Yeah great fish. Kept a couple normal ones before. And they get pretty large. Which is a bonus.
 
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