Get to Know The Koi Fish Flea-eating Tinfoil Barb

 

Tinfoil barb fish or also called Tengadak or Kapiat taken from the Latin, namely Barbonymus Schwanenfeldii. This fish is still a relative with goldfish, this fish spreads in the rivers of Southeast Asia, including Indonesia.

Tinfoil barb medium size, standard length reaches 340 mm. The body shape is round like an egg that is elongated and flattened upright seen from the front with a curved nape line to the beginning of the dorsal fin. The scales are relatively large. Its height is 2.3-2.4 times the standard length while its head is 3.5-4 times the standard length. The muzzle is blunt, two pairs of barbels are found above and at the corners of the mouth, on the upper jaw.

The back is greenish on the sides, silvery to white on the belly, scales down the back with a dark purplish base. The dorsal and caudal fins are beautifully red, the front of the dorsal fin and the upper and lower edges of the caudal fin with a purple-black band. The other fins are pinkish.

The original habitat for this Tinfoil barb fish is large and small rivers, including in ditches or ditches, capiat eats more plants such as moss, grows land plants that are submerged in water, algae, small animals such as microbes and others.

Tinfoil barb fish are believed to be able to clean the walls of the pond or aquarium by eating fleas attached to the walls of the pond or aquarium. Generally, the capiat fish sold in Indonesia are bangkok capiat fish, with a characteristic bright pink color with red eyes. Tinfoil barb fish are usually sold at ornamental fish shops in sizes 10 - 15 cm.

If kept in an aquarium with predatory fish, for example, call it arowana fish, then capiat is a type of fish that eats everything so this fish is very suitable to be used as a "tankmate" for arowana fish, because capiat can clean the aquarium from moss, arowana droppings, leftover food from other fish in an aquarium inhabited by arowana or the like. If in a koi pond he will eat a symbiotic mutualism with koi fish. Tinfoil barb fish will eat koi fish lice and koi fish are not hostile to Tinfoil barb fish.

Therefore, we often encounter this capiat fish in ornamental fish sales on the roadside. Because the function of capiat fish is very good for friends, including the aquarium that we have will look cleaner from food residue and dirt. Bias the number of Tinfoil barb fish that will be kept in a pond or aquarium is no more than 3 fish.

By knowing the role of this capiat fish, hopefully it will make people who have been wondering why many capiat fish are kept with koi fish or arowana fish can be enlightened and not curious anymore. Now for those who have koi fish in the pond or arowana fish in the aquarium and don't have a tank mate yet, this capiat fish is highly recommended.

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