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Gerber77 Fingerling Posts: 44 Votes: 0 Registered: 02-Feb-2005   | I went to my LFS and got three fish called "Fire Barbs" but have never seen any profiles on them. these fish are bright orange with a small black spot on the caudle pununcle. they are very active and swim around the top. |
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superlion  Mega Fish Posts: 1246 Kudos: 673 Votes: 339 Registered: 27-Sep-2003  | sounds like Odessa Barbs. The males have a bright red/orange bar along their sides and yellow, spotted fins. They have a black mark on the caudal peduncle as you described. The females are more of a beige color with the same caudal peduncle spot, and fins with smaller spots. see here for more details sorry there isn't a pic yet in the profile. There will be if I ever manage to get a good shot of mine! ><> |
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Calilasseia  *Ultimate Fish Guru* Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003  | Found a pic of an Odessa Barb ... http://www.jjphoto.dk/fish_archive/aquarium/puntius_species_odessa.htm However, "Fire Barb" could also mean the Sri Lanka Fire Barb, which is actually a Rasbora, namely Rasbora vaterifloris. Here's another link: http://www.labyrinthfische.de/html/barblinge.html See which of those two is closest to yours ...  |
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aquatexan   Banned Posts: 151 Votes: 1 Registered: 03-Aug-2004 | Either way both are relatively rare so i would pick them up. And sound like cool fish. Nice find! |
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