Help ID this fish - Hypsibarbus wetmorei (lemon fin barb)

**bossteck** · 17th Aug 2007, 22:25

Dear all,

I got 5 of this fellas from a good friend. Would like to find out more about them.
Pictures are quite poorly taken due to lack of skills on my part

Another picture

As you can see, it measures a good 6-7 inches.

Dear Mods,

Kindly help to shift the post to the right fauna folder if this is the wrong one.
Thanks!

**bryan** · 18th Aug 2007, 00:16

Tinfoil Barb. I hope you have a really really big tank. A pond would be great.

**bossteck** · 18th Aug 2007, 08:38

Thanks for the id man!

I do have a big tank, but no pond. However, they are getting too big and is stressing out the other denizens in the tank.

**mickthefish** · 23rd Aug 2007, 20:22

bossteck
i have a different ID mate, i'm 99% sure you have lemonfin barbs.
a beatiful fish that grows pretty large and they get skitish a the slightest movement, but they have the good looks to make up for the rest.

regards
mick

**gills** · 23rd Aug 2007, 20:41

same here. they don't really look like tinfoils.

**bossteck** · 24th Aug 2007, 17:39

Hi there,

I wouldn't know. But you guys are right about them being skitish and growing big. I have since gave them away to another hobbyists here that goes by the nick of Stoner. Hope he is enjoying them more than I do.

Cheers!

**Jungle-mania** · 26th Aug 2007, 01:42

I always thought tinfoil barbs had black and sliver stripes on their tail fin and red for the others with a bright silver gills, hence the name.

**Quixotic** · 27th Aug 2007, 07:58

Looking at line drawings between them, the markings on the dorsal and caudal fins certainly closely resemble those of the lemonfin barb.

Hypsibarbus wetmorei, lemonfin barb (picture from www.fishbase.org)

Barbonymus schwanenfeldii, tinfoil barb (picture from www.fishbase.org)