Once again about the unidentified barb

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santoury

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This guy is driving me crazy - This has to be my 100th post about this guy - but the only reason I'm re-posting is because I just noticed that he is a half inch longer than he was last week.

This brings up a potential concern... what is he, so I can figure out his max size. I was thinking approx 6-8 inches, now I'm thinking he might be one of the monster barbs... help me out?
 
Sorry - no camera - but once again, here is the description...


Now 3 inch or 3 1/2 inches - Grew a half inch in the last week.

Body is colored exactly like a Checker (Checkerboard) Barb - silver (Not highly reflective, but somewhat) with black between all the scales. Elongated diamond shape. Dorsal fin is exactly that of a Tinfoil Barb - red tipped in black. From a distance of a few feet, you can see a grayish stripe from eye to tail, more like a shadow. Red eyes.
Surprisingly aggressive towards all tankmates. (ex: not backing off from Cichlid advances.)
 
well its hard to imagine the fish with ur description... we dont even know if its really a barb...

why dont u go research google on "barbs" images. that would probably help u more than posting 100 posts without a picture!
 
santoury;713444; said:
Sorry - no camera - but once again, here is the description...


Now 3 inch or 3 1/2 inches - Grew a half inch in the last week.

Body is colored exactly like a Checker (Checkerboard) Barb - silver (Not highly reflective, but somewhat) with black between all the scales. Elongated diamond shape. Dorsal fin is exactly that of a Tinfoil Barb - red tipped in black. From a distance of a few feet, you can see a grayish stripe from eye to tail, more like a shadow. Red eyes.
Surprisingly aggressive towards all tankmates. (ex: not backing off from Cichlid advances.)
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BEt this barb wouldnt last long with a Nice hungry Dat.. i dont particularly get the Barb Hype..
 
You think you're so cool with your Dats eh? Cute ploy, but it won't float here, literally. NONE of your hundreds-of-dollars Dats (er... do you even have any that would qualify?) would last a half minute with any one of my larger annectens lungs. Kid, let's not start a "my fish is bigger than yours" O K bud? :WHOA:


Google is full of chaff, so finding a particular fish is next to impossible when searching by species. It is quite clearly a barb, or a very close barb relative.

How about helping out with your atlases? Mine are back at home.
 
I highly doubt it being a hybrid. This is relatively to very rare with cyprinids. It also is not an albino. When I say "red eyes" I mean black and red ringed (Like a Midas / Red Devil) Moreover my description of the dorsal fin was a reference to what it looks like, not a suggestion that it might be a tinfoil hybrid.
 
check out this picture i found on google.
is this it.
its called a checker barb.

fish_barbus_oligolepis__Checker_barb_.jpg


Barbus Oligolepis
 
Read my description. Take the checker barb's overall coloration, and apply it to a larger fish, and add a tinfoil barb's dorsal fin, and that's what I have.

This fish is also more streamlined / elongate / pointy nosed than the checker barb.

But, that appearance with the black outlining the scales is what I am referring to.
 
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