spectacular new Bloodfin Tetra species

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At the CNN Science News page I'm just seeing for the first time the new species of Bloodfin Tetra, Aphocharax yakwanae from the upper reaches of the Caura River, a Venezuelan tributary of the Orinoco.The whole rear half of the fish is bright blood red!

If these came to the aquarium market, they'd make a strong competitor for familiar Bloodfins. Imagine a school of forty of these!
 
That would be a beautiful school...but I don't have $1000 to drop for a few more years yet...can you imagine being the first breeder of these? :)
 
Heh, just posted this in chit chat :P

But I want a fruit piranha... just to say I have one :)
 
I feel like such a geek. I want to know if the new shrimp will be a usefull tank cleaner.
 
When I got my own house (which seems to be getting further and further away), I wanna set up a 400+ piranha tank... be sweet to set it up specifically as that riiver setup.
 
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