Can You Identify My Shark?

[Leila2]

I ordered some fish online and was sent a few bonus fish! I think I can handle it... With daily testing of parameters etc.
Anyway - to come to the point - one of them is a shark of some kind. It was labeled as an RTB but looks nothing like one in colour. It is about an inch and a half long at present with a dark grey body and fins almost black (tipped pale) but with a distinctive pale (almost white) tail. Any ideas what it could be?

 

[Davo86]

we could do with a picture really?

 

[craig855s]

im thinking bala..does it look like the one below?

 

[anwhyte]

im thinking bala..does it look like the one below?

hi, looks very much like a bala to me.

 

[england]

Agreed, sounds alot like a juvi Balantiocheilus melanopterus, they look quite skinny when young aswell

 

[Leila2]

im thinking bala..does it look like the one below?

hi, looks very much like a bala to me.

I tried to post a picture from a hosting site (photobucket.com) on a different thread - about a different subject - but it didn't work out (not sure which of the links to use!). But no its not that shark. In body shape it looks just like a RTB but grey (much darker than the bala) and the tail is completely white/cream colour where the RTB goes red. Perhaps a variant of an RTB?

 

[Leila2]

I ordered some fish online and was sent a few bonus fish! I think I can handle it... With daily testing of parameters etc.
Anyway - to come to the point - one of them is a shark of some kind. It was labeled as an RTB but looks nothing like one in colour. It is about an inch and a half long at present with a dark grey body and fins almost black (tipped pale) but with a distinctive pale (almost white) tail. Any ideas what it could be?

Bit of a rubbish picture but you can get the idea. He is just in the jaws of the crocodile skull.

 

[Leila2]

 

[raptorrex]

well its, a blue morph of an rtbs.

 

[Leila2]

well its, a blue morph of an rtbs.

Thanks! That explains it!