Odd goldfish, could anyone ID it for me?

Hey Sawyer. I see the characteristics pointing to ryukin as the breed.. it has almost the same high profile body shape and there's a distinct hump along the line from nose to dorsal fin on top. But the fish has the face and tail of a common. A cross between the two, perhaps? Looking at everything overall, I'd say it's much more a common than ryukin variety.
 
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looks like some kind of weird tiger barb to me...I see stripes, never seen a striped goldfish.
 
Yeah, someone on another forum just told me that its a albino tiger barb. And for over 4 months i've been thinking he's a goldfish! I can't believe it, lol. That never occurred to me. Well I was planning on getting tiger barbs anyway, so I'll separate him from the goldies asap and get him some friends.
 
You're gonna love this, Sawyer...

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Albino Tiger Barb
Family: Cyprinidae
 
Haha.. no fair sneaking other fishes here!

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yep, I googled "albino tiger barb" and saw that pic. He's definitely an albino tiger barb. Its weird, I always heard tiger barbs are nippy but he never nipped my goldies fins and always stays by their sides. would he be safe to put with glass catfish, tetras and zebra danios until i get his new tank set up, or should i just keep him with the goldfish until then?
 
I had tiger barbs as a kid- about 4 of them- which, I know now, isn't really enough- but even so they wern't aggressive or fin-nippy. (they were also the smallest fish in the aquarium at the time).

From all I've read though- they get more aggressive with age- but are least aggressive when kept in larger groups of their own species. You'd expect a single tiger barb to nip fins...

... but maybe HE thinks he is a goldfish! ;)



Seriously though, he may develop as a fin nipper later- or he may not... consider getting him more of his own species though. Beautifull fish BTW.


I don't know much about Albino Tiger Barbs or if their temperment is any different than regular tiger barbs. As I said, I used to have 4 Tiger Barbs (too few I know) and yet they never became fin-nippers.
 
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