Dave_davis1987
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What is this fish?
Help identifying a fish
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Salty&Onion
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Looks like a bottom feeder to me..
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Dave_davis1987
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It eats everything, but doesn’t sit on the bottom all the time, he/she is just resting.
Any idea what fish it is?
Looks to be a type of barb... trying to figure out which one...
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Dave_davis1987
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It’s about 6 inches long, and fairly greedy, if that helps at all...
Looks like a barb or a carp of some sort...
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Dave_davis1987
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It’s a tropical fish, not a carp, I used to have those in my tank many years ago.
a grass carp is probably the one you are thinking of.
a grass carp is probably the one you are thinking of.
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I feel like I've seen this before, but cannot think of a name.
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I concur with Crispii that it may be a cyprinid. Or it could perhaps be a characid, one of the many species of Characidium; some have adipose fins but others do not, like the fish here. It would help to see the mouth clearer...is it inferior? And are there small barbels? Being able to observe the swimming method would help.
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Dave_davis1987
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It has two small barbels, but not like that of a carp, rather, they point out forward.
in terms of swimming behaviour, it does spend a lot of time perched on its lower fins, but it will also swim up and down the glass, hang in the water eating off of plants, rocks, etc. ill try and get a video when it’s a bit more active, for now, it’s just chilling.
in terms of swimming behaviour, it does spend a lot of time perched on its lower fins, but it will also swim up and down the glass, hang in the water eating off of plants, rocks, etc. ill try and get a video when it’s a bit more active, for now, it’s just chilling.
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Not sure how to upload videos on here im afraid. Better pics of the mouth...
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