It is interesting to see these guys change from being confused with SAE to being clearly different. No black stripe going all the way through the tail and the orange eye marking make it clear they cannot be SAE. I got stuck with flying foxes in my first attempt to purchase SAE. I would have liked it better if II had gotten your fish. I finally got the real SAE. For a number of years I have kept the Sahyadria denisonii aka redline barb aka roseline shark etc.
I have found some of the barbs to be great for inducing schooling in tetras. The barb is big enough to be seen as a threat but is really not. However, the tetras still school.
I hope you are able to acquire a few more.
p.s. I use an old digicam for pictures. I do not own a smart phone and never have. After seeing the pictures you get with your iPhone I am tempted to get one just to use as a camera.
I use a Samsung s20, an android phone. Has pretty decent camera, do recommend for the camera function who needs to use a phone to call people???
Itd be awesome to find more of these guys, theyre really neat little fish.
If my area actually got SAE, I'd look in shipments of them for mix ins of those, but alas they don't sell SAE here. We have to order them online.
I've never even seen the flying foxes here. These guys are apparently more commonly confused with flying foxes too, so would have been good to check those, but again... lol
Only "algae eaters" we get here are the notorious Chinese algae eaters. Which are neat fish, but not ideal for most setups and aren't really algae eaters as adults.
Frankly, neither are garra haha. But either way I like them as they are, didn't want them for any functional purpose.
