Freshwater ornamental fish — like gold barbs — make up 90% of this booming industry. The gold barb, a popular variety of Chinese barb, is a small, attractive fish that is easy to maintain in ...

Giant barbs or Siamese giant carps ... The fish earned him more than VND270 million, or more than six taels (225 grams) of gold. According to Phuoc, this precious fish species becomes scarce and ...

The very popular tiger barb is an easy fish to care for and can be fun to watch as it swims at high speed in schools of six or more. It is not, however, an ideal fish for a community tank as it ...

THE TREASURES THEY HOLD: Freshwater ecosystems (above) like the Moyar river, Tamil Nadu, are troves of diverse fish species while the Kudremukh barb (below), an entirely new kind of fish ...