What kind of Tiger Barbs are these?

[Aussie]

i have 6 Tiger Barbs and 4 albino Tiger Barbs and many more in my community tank and 3 of my tiger barbs black stripes are a shinny green instead of black does aby1 kbow what this is as i am curius to find out.

 

[Aussie]

has any else got 1 or seen them b4.

 

[Ruby Shark]

They are probably green tiger barbs but I can't say for sure without seeing a picture.

 

[Ruby Shark]

Do they look like this?: http/www.petresources.net/fish/cyprinid/cop_tet.html

 

[Aussie]

no they are the normal colouration but have like a specy green colour were the stripe is. also can i use any camera to take a foto of them or do u have to use a special one.

 

[kittybug]

i have one like that, i have two albinos two greens and three of the normal variety and my dominant regular tiger has green stripes instead of black although they were more black when we first got him

 

[Aussie]

same as mine
accept i have like 4 or 3 that have this.

 

[silent_one]

I think male tiger barbs stripes become more green as they mature, but can't say for sure.

 

[Ruby Shark]

also can i use any camera to take a foto of them or do u have to use a special one.

Not that I know of. Obviously the better the camera the better the picture. I just use an average digital camera and I still get good pictures.

 

[Ruby Shark]

I think male tiger barbs stripes become more green as they mature, but can't say for sure.

I think that I have seen that before under the right light too. I have had TB's before but never really noticed it on them though.
At first I thought he ment he had a different species of barb and he wasn't sure what they were. lol

 

[Aussie]

ok thanks i will take some pics then as i have a digital cam. cause if they are males i am giving them back to the lf s because i want the ratio of females to males to be more females to males as i wish to breed them.

 

[Bignose]

Tiger Barbs's colors sometimes iridesce different colors. As you have pointed out, the black sometimes appears greenish. The green color morph, since more scales are that black color, iridesce more green. I have noticed that my barbs will change colors depending on how soon after I have turned the aquarium lights on.

A better, more complete decription of this effect, called the Tyndall effect after the physicist who first documented it, can be found here: The Skeptical Aquarist's Page on Barbs it is a ways down the screen... do a search for "Tyndall" to jump right to the description of the Tyndall effect

 

[Aussie]

thanks bignose for the help.

 

[sushi]

I think the other people are right.
I've got 6 tiger barbs and the older ones are starting to get a green sheen in their black stripes. It must just be an age thing. I was wondering myself what it is.

Have you noticed when they're stressed -ie. water changes or dirty water etc - there stripes and general colour fades and goes green? It's pretty cool and interesting.
I had issues and had to keep all my fish in a 100L tuppawear container for 3 days and the barbs and tetras really faded and the barb's stipes went quite green. I never new they did that. Not saying your fish are stressing, just speaking my thoughts I guess. Hope that helps anyway.