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Which fish is this?

Haha Martin, time for a diving suite.. :D This is going to be a tough one without getting one of them out.. Most likely it is a Cyprinidae unfortunately the largest and most spread family on this planet.. Since you are in the eastern part of the world and assuming it obviously is an indigenious Asian sp. youre likely to find it among the barbs, danios and rasboras.. I rather would pick the barb family for this one, but that's just a very wild guess.

Still very unclear in the video, there is a dark spot on it's dorsal fin.. :) That's a mark to look for. But it still will be doing a lot of diggin and guessing..

http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/puntius-vittatus/ (!!)

http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/puntius-chola/ (!?)

http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/puntius-guganio/ (???)

http://www.seriouslyfish.com/group/cypriniformes
 
Ps :) i did a search for Hubei province and found yangtze river, narrowing the search a bit more and the fish is most likely intruduced naturaly or artificialy from this near river system over to the pond.. :) And quickly found a rather simular looking sp. reported as indigenious to the riversystem in this province.

Acheilognathus macropterus (Giant Chinese Bitterling)
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http://d.hatena.ne.jp/OIKAWAMARU/20090812/1250067099
Picture shows a juvenile and has this distinct black spot on the dorsal fin, adults can get rather big +/- 28 cm but the adult male realy can be a beautifull colorfull fish.

What you have seen can be large schools of juveniles looking rather different from the adults..
 
Another one with the black dot on the dorsal fin.. Rhodeus ocellatus - Rosy bitterling.. Dutch name Chinese Bittervoorn :), even cultivated and in the trade as pond/aquarium fish.. maximum size +/- 8 cm. Since it is cultivated or it's a regional thing dunno, but they come in different color paterns as well.
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It seems to keep you pretty busy to find this fish...lol
:lol:

Well it trigered my curiousity, fish always do.. But bussy not realy, i'm a good detective and know my way around searching.. All together the above took me about 10 minutes of searching. And i learned something myself along the way.. So never mind and thanks for posting and trigering my interest. :thumbup:
 
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