White Fin Blue Shark

[Herpetology!]

I'm getting the impression the name on this one is whacked out. It's basically a rainbow shark with a blueish head and white fins.

The best pic I could get there. Lemmie know what you think!

 

[The-Wolf]

looks like a young african carp Labeo coubie, if it is it will reach 75cm and approx 5,000g in weight

 

[OohFeeshy]

Looks like the above to me too.

 

[Herpetology!]

Carp....I mean crap.

http/filaman.ifm-geomar.de/images/thumbn...tn_Lacou_u0.jpg

This is the one you think it is? Well the one we have has a blueish head, some little thingies on the front dorsal to the mouth (like whiskers on a catfish). It has a VENTRAL mouth (so can't be that carp). It also has white fins and a darker body. It also has a more streamline body and not that hump like thing at the base of the skull. Shaped EXACTLY like a rainbow shark. I know alot of that is superficial on a fry, but I think you are mistaken because of the presence of the whiskers on mine and the position of the mouth.

Anything else maybe it could be?

 

[The-Wolf]

your description of the mouth area suggests a black shark Labeo chrysophekadion but the colouration is wrong. I suppose that it is possible it is a natural colour variation of that.

 

[Herpetology!]

From the pics on the web, it still doesn't seem right!!

 

[The-Wolf]

I've been traling though the Baensch atlases and have some possiblities for you
1 ) Labeo forskalii Plain shark, Baensch vol2 pg388
2 ) Labeo parvus Small shark, Baensch vol3 pr390
3 ) Labeo cylindricus Cylendrical shark, Baensch vol3 pg320

HTH

 

[Herpetology!]

It is none of these.


The pattern is Greyish bluish body, Black diamond just before the fin on the tail with a white stripe at the base of the fin (the rays). This is the caudal fin. Then the fins are clearish. A black stripe at the terminus of the anal fins. It's developing more color as it grows, very rapidly.

It's also very mean at feeding, when the lights go on and if something comes near it OR the yo yo loach, which it spends hours with in the yo yo's den and swimming within a few milimeters, almost like schooling. It's strange.

 

[Herpetology!]

OKAY...

On a day to day basis, the shark seems to be getting cozier with a REALLY fat yo yo loach (who is also growing HUGE).

Here's the kicker...
the anal fin is getting darker, the black is moving from the terminus to the base slowly. Lately, as in since this morning, a horizontal black stripe appeared moving from the tip of the snout to ABOUT the opercular opening of the gills...the stripe is the same width as the eyes diameter. Its body is getting lighter and it seems to be cooling it ALOT with the aggression as the loach gets fatter, calmer and bigger.

 

[pandey22]

Hey it is a rainbow shark.....i have one too

 

[The-Wolf]

i think after nearly 3 years it don't matter

way to go on your first necropost

 

[waterdrop]

What breed/combo of cat was Bagheera?