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I did some store hopping today and picked up a few "contaminants" (For those who don't know what that means, they are fish that were brought in with other fish, by accident.)

Firstly, there is STILL my unidentified Leoprinus - Long, thin, gray on silver bands, yellow throat, 5 inches or so. Evidently still a baby.


Now - 2 new ones...

First is a characin - Giant Danio shape/look, but only 2 inches, with vertical black bars (incomplete, not top to bottom) Dorsal, Anal, and pelvic fins are yellow tinted and edged in gray. Lower half of the tail is gray. Dorsal fin is set way back closer to the tail. No adipose fin. Looks fully grown to me. Probably a Barilius sp. (ID species??)


Second - Now this is a wild looker. 2 1/2 inches - probably still a baby. Body is silver with a checkerboard pattern (black outlining the scales) - Looks like a super sized, elongate version of the Checkerboard Barb. Dorsal fin is tall, tinged red, with a black spot on tip. *extremely aggressive*


No pics - sorry! Thanks for the help
 
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santoury;691715; said:
First is a characin - Giant Danio shape/look, but only 2 inches, with vertical black bars (incomplete, not top to bottom) Dorsal, Anal, and pelvic fins are yellow tinted and edged in gray. Lower half of the tail is gray. Dorsal fin is set way back closer to the tail. No adipose fin. Looks fully grown to me. Probably a Barilius sp. (ID species??)
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If it has no adipose fin, it's not a characin. Barilius are cyprinids. Possibly a Raiamas species?

Also, you'll probably have better luck if you search under "Leporinus" instead of "Leoprinus." At first I thought it was a typo, but you've repeated it three or four times, so I thought I'd better mention it. Do a fishbase search and see if anything matches your fish. It's tough without a picture. Good luck.
 
First of all - I see both Leporinus and Leoprinus used frequently, so was not clear which was the proper spelling. Thanks for the input.

Second, the cyprinid seems to be a Raiamas indeed. Was this a rare find? One down, two to go!!! (Any shot at the species of Raiamas??)

Thanks guys - sorry, no camera here! College student on a budget :)
 
does your characin look anything like this?-http://www.danios.info/Contents/species/danio41.asp i've got one just like it in my 29g
i love contaminants, my lfs gets some in from time to time, usually natives that come in w/ ghost shrimp(like a pair of darters and dace)
 
I love contaminants as well - and I know what you mean about natives with the feeders. Cool stuff! It is not a Danio, but a Raiamas. Thanks though! Jude
 
oh, well in that case, can anyone tell me what i have? i tried to talk the owner out of his first darter(even built an 11" cube specially for it) but he still has it. the guy is pretty cool, even though he's an old fashioned fish keeper who believes there isn't anything better than an UGF, he's been keeping fish forever(has some 15yr+ old clown loaches in a 180g) and gets in some really neat/uncommon fish every now and then, like my danio choprae and a butis butis and my unidentified danio, and some climbing perch etc he's also got a 12" jaguar cichlid in a 55g hex(way too small and underfiltered) that hates every living thing that comes near his tank, he'll flare at you if you look at him from across the room.
 
on the last one, something like this?

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