A Chalceus... But What Kind?

[max11180]

Hi,
I got given this fish, along with some others, as the owner ran out of space for them, he had no idea what it was and i was a little stumped myself! i googled various descriptive phrases until eventually, i stumbled across a fish called "pink tailed chalceus". This fish is (or is at least VERY closely related to) a chalceus, but the pink tail part...hmm
Any picture i have found of the pink tail, or indeed any pic of a chalceus google found had a bright red (or pink) tail. Mine has a slight flash of red on the lower part of tail fin, but it is relatively hard to spot unless the the light is just so.
The only pic i found of one without the red tail was one of a juve, but as my fish is close to the stated maximum size of 10", it rules out being juve colouration.
Any ideas?

P.S. Excuse my daughters sticky finger prints of the glass

 

[Nina]

That is not a chalceus. It is infact a cigar shark. Can't remember the latin name but if you google cigar shark you can get it (although it is not the one also known as the cookie cutter shark)

They can get to around 20".

This is my cigar shark

and this is one type of our chalceus - a macrolepidotus

You can also get chalceus erythrurus but I can't find any decent pics of ours. I will try and get one for you if you would like.

N

EDIT: the name is Leptobarbus hoevenii. A good basic background of the fish can be found here

 

[max11180]

Wahay! legendary stuff! you can see the differences very clearly in your pictures! That has to be it, the behavoural information provided of that link is spot on with the fish's traits.
Thanks very much Nina

 

[Nina]

Not a problem. Hope you enjoy your new friend

 

[The-Wolf]

They can get to around 20".

erm, I hate to burst your bubble but...
Leptobarbus hoevenii has the potential to reach 1meter
and weigh up to 10kg

 

[Nina]

And Wolf as discussed before there was only one site that I could find to evidence that.

I did plenty of research on the fish and have asked a few members on here and a large fish forum elsewhere and no one has experience of them getting to larger than 22" in captivity.

 

[andywg]

The cigar shark CAN get to 1 metre in the wild, just like Africn tiger fish can get to 4 feet, but both species in captivity are rarely seen much exceeding 18".