Redtail Cigar Shark
Huge red tail shark in community tank duration.
Redtail cigar shark. The cigar shark is a pelagic schooling species that is found in the mekong chao phraya and mae khlong river drainages throughout viet nam cambodia laos and thailand where it mainly inhabits the larger rivers and. The easiest way to distinguish between the two sharks is to look at their fins. Leptobarbus rubripinna fowler 1937 red finned cigar shark synonymstop.
The cigar shark leptobarbus rubripinna is a migratory species that is also known to tropical fish keeping enthusiasts as the mad fish red finned cigar shark or saltan fish. Cigar shark or luminous shark is a small rarely seen dogfish shark. It should be pointed out that chinese banded and red finned cigar sharks can achieve 36 and iridescent sharks exceed 48 in nature.
Ph 6 0 8 0 neutral value is optimal and water hardness between 5 and 15 dh. Anatomy and morphology cookie cutters are a small about 50 cm 20 in shark with a cigar shaped body. Optimal water parameters for red tailed shark keeping are the following.
Teezy subben 980 views. Red tail and rainbow sharks become territorial especially toward one. Red finned cigar shark leptobarbus rubripinna by haplochromis own work cc by sa 3 0 at first glance this fish reminds me of a buenos aires tetra because of its long silvery body and the red markings on its fins.
The red tail shark will have a red tail and black fins while the rainbow shark will have a red tail and a red dorsal fin. You may often see how this fish scrapes algae from stones in. Filirasbora rubripinna fowler 1937.
From the ancient greek λεπτός leptós meaning thin slender and the generic name barbus within which the type species l. Bala redtail rainbow harlequin and black shark barbs goldfish koi red streak and red finned cigar shark barbs goldfish koi. Redtail shark feeds mainly on algae less on small crustaceans and maggots.
1824 aka cookie cutter shark or cigar shark is a small deep water shark named for the cookie shaped wounds it leaves on larger fish and marine mammals. Red tail albino black shark. Hoevenii was originally placed.
5 silver arowana 6 silver dollar 10 cigar shark twins duration. Paroon shark tank duration.
