getting to know the "torpedo"...

Acrossocheilus fasciatus​

there is next to nothing on them out there that I could find...

they list them on Wet Spot... they only picture juvenal's, and call them railway barbs... ( the seller I got them from calls them... Red Fin Torpedo Barbs )



but they go through quite a transformation, to adult colors...



everything I can find say 8 inch at full length... nothing on Seriously Fish... but looking up 2 cousins they list both are the sameish length...

I bought one... the seller has pretty basic information...

"This amazing fish is rarley seen in the hobby. The adult colors in the scales are golden with black horizontal bar and bright red fins. They start with a juvenile color of gold and black stripes then change with age. This impressive fish is a species of cyprinid fish from the Pearl River basin in southern China. This beautiful fish reaches 8 inches in length. It is a peaceful fish that does well when in groups or by itself."

mine seems fine with only one... but looks like it would be more comfortable with friends... I think I'm going to order a 2nd... mine came in as an adolescent... color changing... I'll get some better pictures, later… the picture below is day one, FOB & it looks more like a Perch or Walleye, except for around the mouth... it has colored up a little more since it's been in the tank


if anyone has any information, I'd appreciate it...

Coloring up a little more today… this fish is between 6 and 7 inches long

@Magnum Man
Knock yourself out
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,33&q=Acrossocheilus+fasciatus​&btnG=

And now you know why I have spent so much time over the past 20+ years on Google Scholar.

I don’t get to sit and watch my barb tank as much as I do the bigger group of tanks… but I saw the torpedo working the sand like an earth eater Cichlid, tonight… interesting, because it’s body type, looks predatory… the spot tail algae eaters still give that one a lot of space… and speaking of the spot tails… they mostly hang out around the pots, and pothos roots, or in the bubbles , from a large air stone…
I was thinking about an Asian bumblebee catfish to graze over the sand… but that was before I saw the torpedo working it over???