ITG: We post our favourite Cyprinids!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnCupXPiwkc

My Favourite Cyprinids!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_roach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylopharodon_conocephalus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_exilicauda

golfish :)

Someone likes my thread! :)

>>4994774
Meant for >>4994773

Rainbow shiners are neat

>>4995252
Convergently very similarly colored to my favorite Cyprinid, the Northern Redbelly Dace, Chrosomus eos. They are both great bait and fun aquarium fish.

Colloquially if you are in the upper Midwest and the bait tank at the tackle shop says “rainbows” but doesn’t specify Chub or Shiner, they are probably Northern Redbelly Dace.

What's up Cypriniggas?

>>4995252
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>>4995784
Hello guests! Loving the Cyprinids!

luv cherry barbs

For me, it's the Labeoninae

C'mon nobody wants to talk about carps and minnows on this god-forsaken board?

>>4996494
What do you enjoy about your favorite cyprinds?

>>4996574
I enjoy the looks, ease of care and the wide variety of mouth morphologies, especially in the aforementioned Labeoninae

>>4996575
So do you keep them? I had a 55 gallon mixed species tank of Chrosomus eos and Umbra limi (an Esociform minnow) until it sprung a leak. The dace would shoal in the open water and the mudminnows would stack up in groups near the drift wood and in the plants. Every now and again a dace would get eaten by a mudminnow, but they preferred hunting scuds. The mudminnows were very fun to watch and the dace were a beautiful shoalling fish, so it was an excellent cold water display tank.

>>4996589
The Osteochilus posted earlier is my fish. I've had him for about 3 years and he hasn't grown an inch. He's been braindead easy to take care of but doesn't compete for food as well as my Dawkinsias and Synodontis he shares living quarters with. Not an issue as he'll eat anything green so I can throw in random plant trimmings

It's funny how cyprinids are so ubiquitous that their body plan was adopted as the generic "fish" profile for just about anything

>>4996626
Even then cyprinids have the Weberian apparatus, lack of true stomach, and pharyngeal teeth to save them from becoming 100% generic

Suckers :)

Are characins the evil counterparts to cyprinids?

>>4997541
Cyprinids are to the pokemon with the generic chancey esque smiley face while characins are the more charasmatic pokemon with the kanto eyes

Bump

>>4998567
>Bumping with a tetraodontid

For me it's Cobitidae

>>4998976