Common fish inhabiting ponds, streams, paddy fields and tanks in the low country - both wet and dry zone - up to an elevation of about 300m. It is very hardy fish and is found even in ponds reduced to liquid mud during the drought (
Deraniyagala P.E.P., 1952) It is also recorded from some brackish water bodies (
Pethiyagoda R., 1991). Silver Barb feeds mainly on filamentous algae and blue-greens, and rarely on certain animal matters.
Is it live only in Srilanka?
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