Anyone ever heard of these? Apparently from what I was told at the store they are a tropical trout, kind of a given, and they are all silver with 5-6 pale blue dots all in a line at the top of the back. They were only 2".
Blue Dotted trout
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Found it!
Some times marketed as the Blue Dotted Hill Trout, it is a cyprinid and was first shipped out of India in 1998. It is the Barilius bakeri and is also sold as the Malabar Baril and as the Royal Danio. It is a relative of the zebra and giant danios and like them is relatively easy to breed and is an omnivorous egg scatterer. It gets to 6" long but most are smaller, and it does best in nuetral ph water in the mid 70s F. It is from the Kerala district of India and is from small mountain streams. Nice fish, not very common to find.
The upper picture shows a male, the lower one a female. They have been bred in tanks as small as 10g with 2 females and one male but like giant danios I would bet you would have better odds with 5 females and 3 males in a 20g long tank filled with lots of elodea or cabomba.
Some times marketed as the Blue Dotted Hill Trout, it is a cyprinid and was first shipped out of India in 1998. It is the Barilius bakeri and is also sold as the Malabar Baril and as the Royal Danio. It is a relative of the zebra and giant danios and like them is relatively easy to breed and is an omnivorous egg scatterer. It gets to 6" long but most are smaller, and it does best in nuetral ph water in the mid 70s F. It is from the Kerala district of India and is from small mountain streams. Nice fish, not very common to find.
The upper picture shows a male, the lower one a female. They have been bred in tanks as small as 10g with 2 females and one male but like giant danios I would bet you would have better odds with 5 females and 3 males in a 20g long tank filled with lots of elodea or cabomba.
Damn, I'm good, heheh.
Nice find, In 2002 they were selling in Sweden at $3 US wholesale so unless more shipments have come out or some serious breeders have started with them they might be pricey.
Nice find, In 2002 they were selling in Sweden at $3 US wholesale so unless more shipments have come out or some serious breeders have started with them they might be pricey.
Hiya Mahseer, if I could not find it I was going to refer MrFish to you, lol, I don't know anyone better with cyprinids. I found a reference to them for about $10 each in 1998 so $15 now sounds about right.