The Red-eyed Labeo is a small fish of rocky and clean fereshwater in East Africa and as far South as the Pondola River.


The Red-eyed Labeo is a small fish of rocky and clean fereshwater in East Africa and as far South as the Pondola River. They have a habit of migrating en-mass to spawn and have the habit of leaping onto wet rocks to use their powerfiul jaws and muscular pectoral fins to latch onlto rocks and rasp off the algae


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Location: Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
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