Please help ID these fish

[xander]

I bought these fish as "true flying fox"
This Algae Eating Cyprinids
isn't helping me figure out If they are SAE or Flying Fox.
I don't see a light stripe over the black but the fins are yellowish.
Yet the line seems zigzagged. in short I don't have a clue if they are SAE or Flying Foxes. Here are some pics. Please help.

 

[Crepe]

Uhh, I was under the impression that SAE = flying fox. Same species that is (crossocheilus siamensis)

 

[xander]

True Siamese Algae Eater (Crossocheilus siamensis)

Flying Fox (Epalzeorhynchus kallopterus)

False Siamese Algae Eater (Garra taeniata)

 

[Crepe]

I looked it up in my book. SAE is listed under the common umbrella term of flying fox. So you probably bought SAE and they were just labeled under an alternate name.

 

[Vircomore]

Those look like they are "false simensis"

I believe that there was a thread about this I was in a couple weeks ago where we determined that the single best way to tell them apart is to compare the colors above and below the stripe.

A True SAE will be equally as bright silver on top as they are on bottom, while Flying Foxes and all other "common imposters" are usually more brown or golden above the line than below it.

 

[Vircomore]

Here's the link that I posted in that last thread. Hope the pictures help.

Identifying the Siamese Algae Eater

Those fish in the above pic look to be too brown on top to be true SAE, but not brown enough to be Flying Foxes.

 

[xander]

I thought I read somewhere that all false have 2 pair of barbels and true SAE have only one pair.