ID: Barbs - Puntius sp. 'Odessa'

[AquaObsession]

Bought 6 of these fishes today. Just wanted to ID. At the shop I think it says elodea barb...cannot remember well.



I just hope it is not dyed fish

Thanks in advance.

[bryan]

odessa barb. Don't worry the color is all natural. It gets even better if it's happy.

[valice]

Puntius sp. 'Odessa'

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ad.php?t=22384

[AquaObsession]

thanks, i am reading up more on them.

went down to get some DW to set up a tank (hopefully breeding) of local species, but saw these at the shop, so i bought 6 to try with my harlequin, espei, boraras and amber tetra

[hwchoy]

tell us what you read. most of the information on them are likely to be wrong. search for odessa in AQ, I was one of the first person to have photographs of assured wild-caught odessa.

[AquaObsession]

are mine wild caught? or since then they have been farmed bred?

reading from the general internet... peaceful, male/female differentiation (though i do not really trust source), temperature, etc

Will ask a friend who is from Nparks and love research on fish if he has any good sources for me, then I will update here.

Christophe

[hwchoy]

cannot tell if the fish is bred or caught, as the ones I got looks practically the same as those in the shop, which is believed to be farm bred.

This fish was long thought to be some kind of aquarium hybrid. no one knows where they are from other than the aquarium stock. only two years ago the collectors in Myanmar collected this fish from the wild and handed me some specimens.

As such this fish has not been described thus known as Puntius sp. 'Odessa'. The origin of the name Odessa is probably because the original trade stock came from Eastern Europe.

[hwchoy]

see here http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ghlight=odessa

[AquaObsession]

they have been in my tank for 2 weeks or so now... First thing I observe, most of my E.tenellus have been uprooted. hehe,

Behaviour wise, I still have to spend more time to watch them, been busy lately. I am starting to feed my fishes live food now (brine shrimp, etc) and frozen bloodworms instead of the normal dried pellets. I hope their colors grow more intense, and hopefully they will breed as well. Temperature 27-28 degrees (1 fan).

They tend to be very shy, run behind when i approach the aquarium. They do chase some shrimps and amber tetra, and my boraras, but not to the extend of kidding them.

Mid-bottom swimmers as I observed in my 2 feet tall tank.

They are almost always nipping at plants at my java ferns, moss and tenellus. And some of the debris that gather in an area of poor water circulation.