Fish Identification From Photograph

This is what I did.

Hampalong said he was on the PFK forum, but I didn't think he'd use the same user name.
The fish looked very much like barbs, which are cyprinids.
Hampalong said they weren't oddballs but they were as good as, which to me meant they were very rare.

So I went to PFK forum, cyprinid section, and went through the posts one by one. On the third page I found a post titled Rare barbs - any interest - and the poster's name was black ghost. Hampalong did say he used to have an oddball, the black ghost knife fish.

So I clicked on the post and read
"I have a pair (1m, 1f) of Hampala ampalong...." I stopped reading at that point as I was sure I'd found it

Thinkfish user name hampalong
Fish name Hampala ampalong

It had to be.

Then I googled  that fish name and found this link to another PFK thread and in post 14 was another picture with a title.



I tried giving clues. I said to think of a place to look - since hampalong is a PFK member, that was the obvious place to go.
I'd already said it was a barb, and said that barbs are cyprinids.
I said read everything hampalong had written - he listed black ghost among his previous fish. And I said that two words had given me a clue - again, black ghost.


That's how you cheat and be devious 





Edit - have now corrected the spelling of the user name and fish name  I think I have mentioned in the past that I type all the right letters but not necessarily in the right order.

...Hampala amplaong....user name hampalalong
Fish name Hampala amaplaong....

Autocorrupt is a wonderful thing.

 

It was Rob and I was kind of wondering why he'd shared that  I thought it was quite a reasonable comment 

After all my aforementioned hunting, following Sue's e-mails, I started looking up all sorts of leads including black ghost's posts (and cichlid man's), going through the PFK cyprinid section (think I stopped at pg 2, though), and doing numerous searches for pics from Mark through the website - kept getting aquascaping tanks up from another Mark. I couldn't get "puntius" out of my head, though, although Sue had kindly advised me it was not a 'puntius'. In the PFK cyprinid section (I think), I found this http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/puntius-exclamatio/ under the name 'Dawkinsia exclamatio' and was convinced I'd found the answer until I realised that it too was a 'puntius'.

I got it by a clue given by someone (sorry - forgotten who) who said they didn't want to hamper our search, and were off to watch gazelles and impala. As these were strange things to say I played around with these words plus fish in google and it autocorrected me to Hampala. I got the wrong one first off, then a bit more searching with google images and I found a piccie linked to PFK. QED.

I've no idea what you're on about ColinB!

It was all true! David Attenborough rocks!! 😀

Wow. I wouldn't have gotten that but I thought it was a filament barb! 

It was Rob and I was kind of wondering why he'd shared that  I thought it was quite a reasonable comment 

See! My exact sentiments, purely coincidental - everyone loves Mr Attenborough.