Unknown Hillstream…

I got this guy with in my Saddleback Oder a while back… it’s all black, it’s lizard type, rather than flying saucer type, and has grown more in the time here, than the other Saddleback, so I think it’s a different species… there are other attempts at photography in my “bucket list” thread,… https://www.fishforums.net/threads/...or-another-week-so-i-can-buy-a-couple.494479/

but it’s extremely camera shy probably the shyest fish I own… I have a back corner of the tank, that is specifically set up to grow algae, and it’s been there almost exclusively… ( that area is impossible to get good pictures )… well it’s out swimming around this morning, unfortunately I didn’t have a camera when it was at the front of the tank… I started this thread as a place to put any pictures of it.. unfortunately these won’t be good pictures this morning, but I’ll keep trying, as it’s thriving, and has grown quite a bit…

Some better pictures of the unknown fish today… 1st picture, the fins look like a saddle back, but the body is nearly jet black, much darker black, than all the other black fish in this tank…

Getting some of the best pictures of this guy lately, but still no idea what it is???

In my unscientific research, I'm thinking this is a Balitoropsis cf. zollingeri...


it was supposed to be a Homaloptera cf. parclitella...

Yeah, it definitely doesn't have the saddle markings. I wonder if it could be a female? Sometimes with relatively unknown fish there is unreported sexual dimorphism.