boff

Hi can any body give me any information about a Rhino fish,cant seem to find much about them ive enclosed a picture of one cheers boff.

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Gunnie

Nice looking fish! It looks like some sort of tetra or in that family.

boff

I don't know cant find any thing about it,do you think its a hybrid ,or have you herd of them ,found it on site selling fish but they don't have any information at the moment .Its a relay nice looking fish, if its a tetra do you think its a smallish fish any help would be brilliant cheers boff.

boff

Forgot to give you the site addresshttp://www.aquariumfish.net/index.htm cheers boff.

boff

I still cant find out any thing about this fish .Can any body tell me a web site that my help cheers boff.

Boxermom

It is a cyprinid, of the barbus family (Barbus mariae) but no info in any of my tropical fish encyclopedias.

david

hi there boff the only info i could find was the size and country it comes from...it grows to 34 cm max adult size and comes from the rivers and streams in africa and kenya..thats a big fish ..

boff

Well thanks for every body's help .If they didn't grow so big i would try to get some because they are a relay nice looking fish but proberly couldn't get them in the UK any way so cheers boff

chickadee

Has anyone thought of asking Dino? He would probably know in a minute.

Rose

fishfanatic

the fish in question is a humpheaded glass fish. They are omnivores and grow to 3". Hard to find.

boff

Hi ,i did find a picture and its name the other day but there was no information about it, so thanks .Have you every seen any in fish shops ,and where do you live .boff

Butterfly

http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/61229/all Here is a little information on why their hard to find.
Carol

boff

Thanks that explains alot .Do you think they will every be ready available.To change the subject have a look at the marking on this clown,have been trying to find one like it but no luck yet ,do you think its a one off .

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Butterfly

That is so cool!! Off-ice at plantgeek.net has one just like that. His name is Spot(go figure )
Carol

boff

I found this one on Bowheads forum its owner is mikev and called dotty ,so its possible to find another one .

Butterfly

Yes dotty is lovely
Carol

Tom

The humphead glass fish were only discovered three years ago, so they don't know what fish it goes well with and which ones it doesn't do well with. I learned all this from my LFS which had 2 for sale and one either died in the store or it was sold. I think that you can also tell the gender by the darkness of that hump it has. I don't know for sure but i am pretty sure about that. I hope this helped.
Tom

boff

Thanks Tomh ,its amazing that you have seen some for sale ,i can only find i place to get them on the web and they are out of stock all the time .cheers boff

Tom

Welcome. I would have gotten them but they were at least $37 each and I only had enough to buy the necessities. I don't know any more about the glassfish because the owner only said that much because there isn't that much info on them yet. They are still very beautiful fish.
Tom

Tom

Hey boff, could you give me some suggestions on my 'What other fish' topic.
Tom