Golden silver shark???
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What type of "gold"? Like yellow or maybe a gold tint similar to a gold clown knife?
Golden sharks are usually leptobarbus hoevenii (cigar shark). They don't look like balas tho.
Albino tinfoils have a light golden hue when mature, and sometimes erroneously placquered "sharks" at some LFS.
Breeding golden varieties of various species isn't new in the hobby. In this thread we have had a few examples, golden Dennison barb and yellow tinfoil barb to name but a few.
I'm very familiar with standard balas, I have five. The fish I saw in my LFS were tiny juvenile balas, the shape, the big eyes, the fins, everything pointed to them being Bala sharks.....but they were gold!!!
The guy said they were indeed a golden variety of the common Bala, and that they'd grow just as big. I tried to picture a 12" version of this fish, in gold, and was immediately put off. I once had a yellow tinfoil barb and to be honest I thought it was very blah. Golden fish aren't my thing.
My LFS quite often gets oddball fish in that aren't that common in the hobby, maybe this is just another example of them looking for something different.
The fact that there's nothing on line, or that any of you guys have heard of them makes me wonder whether they are a totally new thing. Maybe in a few years we'll see more comments on here regarding golden Bala sharks.
Watch this space.....
I'm very familiar with standard balas, I have five. The fish I saw in my LFS were tiny juvenile balas, the shape, the big eyes, the fins, everything pointed to them being Bala sharks.....but they were gold!!!
The guy said they were indeed a golden variety of the common Bala, and that they'd grow just as big. I tried to picture a 12" version of this fish, in gold, and was immediately put off. I once had a yellow tinfoil barb and to be honest I thought it was very blah. Golden fish aren't my thing.
My LFS quite often gets oddball fish in that aren't that common in the hobby, maybe this is just another example of them looking for something different.
The fact that there's nothing on line, or that any of you guys have heard of them makes me wonder whether they are a totally new thing. Maybe in a few years we'll see more comments on here regarding golden Bala sharks.
Watch this space.....
I breed bala sharks, cigar sharks, diamond barbs, Denison and tinfoil barbs etc including albino. However, I haven't been able to produce golden morphs, even using golden morph stock despite them being massed produced now. I suspect it's a sex linked trait.
You're the guy who also breeds clown loaches I believe, and from a previous thread of mine regarding beardless barbs, you mentioned you breed those too?
With what you've just mentioned now, that is quite an assortment of notoriously difficult fish to breed in home aquaria. I think I can speak for almost every member on this forum when I say, is it possible you could start a breeding thread and enlighten us on your methods? It would be truly fascinating and educational for us lesser mortals.
