Familiar With Barred Danio Or Whatever These Are?

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I am working on getting a picture. My LFS had them, but were selling them as butterfly danio. I looked for Butterfly danio on the net, but all I could find was barred danios that looked like them.


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I looked at Wolf's page. Maybe these aren't barred danios
 
Okay, well your topic title mentions cichlids, yet the body of your post is talking about Danios. I'll leave the post here for the time being in case you are talking about a Cyprinid.

Common names are always a problem. They are national, sometimes regional, often variable and occasionally made up on the spot by the fish shop! A picture will certainly help.

In the mean time, you could look at The Wolf's site, he has pictures of several Danio species.

http://www.danios.odd-fish.net/
 
That is no danio I've ever seen.
the anal fin does look like some kind of chela
species (which is a sister group of devario )
or some kind of oryzias species
 
The pictures help, they fish certainly does not appear to be a cichlid! They are not that clear though. Can you confirm the fish does not have an adipose fin, (small fin on the back between the dorsal and the tail)? That way we can rule out a Parodon species for example.

Opsaridarium chrystyi is commonly called the "Gold Lipped xxx" where xxx is variable, the gold lip is quite characteristic, so if you have a gold lip on the fish, that is probable. There are other Opsaridarium species which are similarly marked, O. zambezense for example.

Another group with species looking like that is the Raiamas group. R. moorii or R senegalensis for example.

There are a lot of new small cyprinids, Danios etc. coming along at the moment, particulaly as Burma is becoming accesible now, could easily be another of these. Frankly, I think that is more likely than the other suggestions I've made simply because more people are exporting these things than the other groups which are from Africa.

Whatever, it is a nice looking fish.
 
I think I have a winner
barilius barna ozola barb
the stripe pattern matches as does the anal fin
the head shape is, hard to tell from the pics posted,
but I believe the correct shape too.
 
I think I have a winner
barilius barna ozola barb
the stripe pattern matches as does the anal fin
the head shape is, hard to tell from the pics posted,
but I believe the correct shape too.

Ah, in that case I wasn't far off (opsidarium chrystyi=barilius chrystyi)
 

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