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Redtailedcat said:
not sure picked him up as a cigar shark at the lfs
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Cool. That's the one also called Mad Barb for getting drunk on fermented berries and behaving as such.

-- Hoven's carp / Mad Barb / Sultan Fish / Cigar Shark (albeit cigar shark is really the name for a small deep water oceanic shark - The cookiecutter shark, also called the cigar shark, is a species of small dogfish shark in the family Dalatiidae.)
-- Leptobarbus hoevenii
-- Greek, leptos = thin + Latin, barbus = barbel
-- Cypriniformes (Carps) > Cyprinidae (Minnows or carps) > Leptobarbinae
-- Max length 100 cm SL male/unsexed; common 50 cm SL; max. publ. weight: 10 kg; Fishing world records: 65-100+ cm; 6-10 kg.
-- Freshwater; pelagic; pH ? - 7.0; dH 12 - ?; potamodromous; depth 3 - ? m
-- Tropical 23 - 26°C
-- 23°N-3°S
-- Asia: Thailand to Sumatra & Borneo.
-- Found mostly in freely flowing rivers & streams & seasonally on floodplains. Takes part in local trophic migrations to & from inundated forests. Swims in shoals & are only fished in the Mekong especially during upstream (Jan-Feb) & downstream migration (Jun-Jul). Eats parenchyma & seeds of chaulmoogra tree (Hydnocarpus) falling into the streams; reported to become intoxicated & behaves in a peculiar manner & is believed to be toxic. Northern Laotians refrain from eating it but those in the South do. Cambodians & Vietnamese prize it highly. Eating flesh of the fish can cause nausea in humans.
-- Fisheries: commercial; aquaculture: commercial; aquarium: commercial.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
Cool. That's the one also called Mad Barb for getting drunk on fermented berries and behaving as such.

-- Hoven's carp / Mad Barb / Sultan Fish / Cigar Shark (albeit cigar shark is really the name for a small deep water oceanic shark - The cookiecutter shark, also called the cigar shark, is a species of small dogfish shark in the family Dalatiidae.)
-- Leptobarbus hoevenii
-- Greek, leptos = thin + Latin, barbus = barbel
-- Cypriniformes (Carps) > Cyprinidae (Minnows or carps) > Leptobarbinae
-- Max length 100 cm SL male/unsexed; common 50 cm SL; max. publ. weight: 10 kg; Fishing world records: 65-100+ cm; 6-10 kg.
-- Freshwater; pelagic; pH ? - 7.0; dH 12 - ?; potamodromous; depth 3 - ? m
-- Tropical 23 - 26°C
-- 23°N-3°S
-- Asia: Thailand to Sumatra & Borneo.
-- Found mostly in freely flowing rivers & streams & seasonally on floodplains. Takes part in local trophic migrations to & from inundated forests. Swims in shoals & are only fished in the Mekong especially during upstream (Jan-Feb) & downstream migration (Jun-Jul). Eats parenchyma & seeds of chaulmoogra tree (Hydnocarpus) falling into the streams; reported to become intoxicated & behaves in a peculiar manner & is believed to be toxic. Northern Laotians refrain from eating it but those in the South do. Cambodians & Vietnamese prize it highly. Eating flesh of the fish can cause nausea in humans.
-- Fisheries: commercial; aquaculture: commercial; aquarium: commercial.
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good to know!! i misses one small part.... hes dumb!! only next to my id sharks tho lol
 
necrocanis said:
Where did you get the Bocourti???
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Can you please describe the traits that led to this ID and led you to discard other Pangasiidae? You may be right for all (the little) that I know. Just looking to learn.
 
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