My Barbs/Carps (Cyprinid) Collection

[GiantFishKeeper101]

Unless things have changed in the recent past my understanding of both H. Wetmorei and H. Vernayi appears to be the opposite way round to yours. Wetmorei being the fish which often has the more red fins and vernayi being the fish with white or yellow fins and often a more yellow tinge to the body. Whilst both are sold as lemon fin barbs here in the uk, I would suggest what you are calling wetmorei in your care are vernayi in your care.

The wetmorei is native to malaysia, the vernayi are not. Here we call it siamese lemonfin barb (if translated) because it came from thai, brought in by farms. Majority of lemon barb get caught in local waters are the wetmorei i posted. So it is indeed the true wetmorei. Not all info from fishbase are trusted. They even have wrong photos of the wetmorei, there's H. malcolmi & Barbonymus gonionotus.

There's a debate before that stated that both version of the lemon barb are the same species which is wetmorei but molecular test haven't been done to support that statement.

In my experience, these 2 are completely different from 1 another. Their bodyshape, the head, the fins, completely different. If you use the fishbase as a reference, they do stated that wetmorei have reddish brown upper body like i showed in my picture, lower half of the body tinted yellow for vernayi. The vernayi do have stronger yellow coloration on the belly, other parts mostly silver except for the fins. The only opposite way around is the name. Vernayi shoud be yellow bellied barb.

 

[GiantFishKeeper101]

2 of my recent collection. 2 species of Mystacoleucus. Don't think these guys have an english name.



This is Mystacoleucus argenteus from Salween river in Thai-Myanmar border. Got it as a free gift when i brought it thailand fishes to my country. Very colorful fish, reddish eyes on the top, yellow fins & body, black tip dorsal with red coloration just like in tinfoil barbs. I have no idea what size these guys maxed out but the more common Mystacoleucus obtusirostris can grow to 12" or so.



Now this is the most common ones, Mystacoleucus obtusirostris. This species are native to my country. They have bigger scales than the argenteus, each scales edge have black markings on it, bottom half scales have these "diamond" shape scales. They usually yellowish in color but can be silver. The dorsal have a hint of red. Beautiful fish but the most sensitive to water chemistry.

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[thebiggerthebetter]

Sweet thread. Thank you for this.
The fish in the OP resembles the African moonfish.