Can anyone ID this fish?

[alexanian]

Can anyone ID this fish thats in my LFS. Obviously not the albino frenum sharks but the gray fish in the bottom of the pic.

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[krichardson]

They look like some sort of gourami.

 

[Hendre]

Kissing gourami, Helostoma temminckii

 

[alexanian]

Kissing gourami, Helostoma temminckii

But aren't they pinkish color?

 

[Hendre]

But aren't they pinkish color?

Not always, they can be grey to white to pinkish...

 

[alexanian]

Not always, they can be grey to white to pinkish...

Cool, thanks for the help

 

[duanes]

In nature many that survive predation are silvery brown, its just that in the aquarium trade, the pink color morph was considered the desirable one to cultivate for commerciality.
I prefer the brown natural morphs myself, and used to see large brown ones in Saigon's fish market years ago, for sale for dinner.
Similar to the natural color morph of Petenia splendida.

 

[Allan01230]

could be pink gourami cross with blue or snakeskin?

 

[alexanian]

Yea they do behave like kissing gouramies now that I think of it, I just never knew that they come in this color so it didn't occur to me that it might be them

 

[TwoHedWlf]

In nature many that survive predation are silvery brown, its just that in the aquarium trade, the pink color morph was considered the desirable one to cultivate for commerciality.
I prefer the brown natural morphs myself, and used to see large brown ones in Saigon's fish market years ago, for sale for dinner.
Similar to the natural color morph of Petenia splendida.

Yeah, silvery like that is their REAL color. Hence why they're commonly called "Wild type" It's unfortunate they're so rare in the hobby since they're much more attractive than the pink and hideous deformed balloon strains.