Tinfoils

[Cory C]

I have 4 Tinfoils. Their fins are very bright orange/red. I've had mine about 3 years. They're all about 8''. I'll see what I can do for pics.

 

[Cory C]

Keep in mind they never sit still.

 

[Cory C]

Note to self: Clean glass before taking pictures next time.

 

[SteveR]

Beautiful fish, thanx very much for that, I do appreciate the time it took you.

 

[Cichlas]

Nice tinfoils. This was one of mine when I sold it

 

[SteveR]

Hm I got a question. Some of my tinfoil barbs (only like 2 inches at mow) have like tiny barbells, tiny ones compared to a koi, very thin, but looking closely you can see them. I just dont see them in the adult fish? Is this normal? What's going on?

 

[Cichlas]

The adults have them too, albeit very small.

 

[brcacti]

The tinfoils are wonderful fish, its great to have the albinos and one gold too. They rarely stop, always swimming around all over and if you have a big tank it gets even more interesting they can travel more. Mine are growing like weeds so far, have the 5 of them in with 5 balas I just baught about 4 weeks ago and they are also growiing fast now and fast getting deep bodies, all seem extremely healty, the only small fish are the spanner barbs (to 7 inches) although they are growing they just dont grow as fast as the tins and balas. Most of my spanner barbs (but not all) are a form of the spanner barb called the "false spanner barb" with only one of the biggest speciemens the true species. Very interesting fish, I have 7 false spanners and one true regular, I may take the 3 smallest false spanners and give them to the pet shop and buy 3 more regulars later if I find them, that would leave me with 4 of each form.

 

[brcacti]

Thanks for the tinfoils pics everyone!!!!!!!!!!

 

[fishman256]

I have been to an aquarium last year that had a shoal of about 30 fully grown tinfoils. It looked amazing.