My Cool water "barb" tank begins...

[Magnum Man]

I was getting worried about the spot tailed algae eaters… they were pretty freaked out by the size of the Tin Foil’s… but starting to look a little more at ease…

 

[fishorama]

You have such nice hiding places for them. Even if the tin foils weren't veggie eaters, the spotties would likely feel safer soon. A learning curve!

 

[bhags]

Here’s mine. Not exactly rare but wanted an all barb tank. Snakeskins all had ich or epy. Tetras weren’t supposed to be in there but they love following around the crackhead rosys. Very happy how they all live in harmony (for now)

 

[bhags]

I’m sorry I’m a total noob ha but I forgot the whole point of my pointless post was to say get melon barbs if possible. One of the most magnificent looking fish and characters out of all the fish I’ve seen in my life. Beautiful things

 

[Magnum Man]

well this may be the last fish order until spring, we'll have to see what the weather is like in 2 weeks ( we're getting snow today, if that's any indication ) I have a couple more Denison barbs, to make my group a little bigger, in the tank the Tin Foils came from...

for the new barb tank, that the Tin Foils were transferred to…I have a small group of 4 inch Dawkinsia assimilis (Mascara Barbs)...

& a single 6 inch Acrossocheilus fasciatus (Red Fin Torpedo Barb)...

these will be in with my group of 5 - 8-10 inch Tin Foils…

& the new group of Crossocheilus reticulatus (Yellow Fin Spot Tail algae eaters)...

This was a pretty expensive order, with the bigger size of the fish coming ( to better fit in with the Tin Foils size ) I'd still like to get a couple of the long fin Green Dragon pleco's, but the tank was sanitized, so not much algae yet, they may have to wait until spring???

 

[Magnum Man]

Was looking for some pictures of Mascara barbs, just to get an idea of color variations…
Ran across these from a seller I’d never heard of before, a couple interesting color variations… top one is listed as a
(Wild Red-line)

Interesting… a Canadian fish store… @GaryE … have you ever heard of these guys???

 

[Magnum Man]

Doesn’t look like they ship to the USA, just Canada

 

[Magnum Man]

The more I’m digging, it looks like there are 2 different species, sold as “Mascara barbs”… the ones I ordered, are supposed to be Assimilis… which have all the wild colors… but the other variety, apsara, often called “super red”

 

[Magnum Man]

My Mascaras, & Red Fin Torpedo, are out for delivery this morning... along with 2 more Denisons... looking forward to these getting here...

 

[Magnum Man]

FOB…

 

[Magnum Man]

2 of the Mascaras have red dorsal fins... the Torpedo, being an adolescent, is changing from it's juvenal striped pattern... it almost looks like a Perch, until you look at it's mouth... it looks skinny, but ate 2 algae pellets, as soon as I put them in... will probably worm this tank, once it's fully stocked...

shipping of bigger fish, went over $100.00, but while not individually packed, they were in big enough bags, they travelled well... best shipping box I've seen...

 

[Magnum Man]

Starting to color up a couple hours later…

 

[Magnum Man]

Denison’s more slowly getting accepted to the clan… one for sure in submission posture

 

[Magnum Man]

This is my biggest 2 year old male ( assuming just by coloration, that I have 3 males and 2 females )… 3 of them have black n their dorsal fins… the other 2 have red, and are slightly smaller ( maybe it’s 3 males, and 3 females??? )

he is just over 8 inches long

 

[Magnum Man]

This is one that has red in the dorsal, and is the smallest… so maybe it’s male???