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yes, those are subadult protomyzon pachychilus, no doubt about it

I love your loach collection, inspires me to do a similar set up. How do you get all the algae to grow on your rocks, sun light or artificial lighting?

Hey Jim,

Thanks for the link, those fish did come from me. I noticed that through the thread you've mentioned a few times how they can easily be confused with L. pelligrini, and I still but wonder if the ones from 15 years ago were infact Pelligrini and not elongata.

http://fugupuff-fugupuff.blogspot.com/

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... p?t=366394

I think the loach forum is a good place to start, I know some people have seen or kept them from years ago, can anyone please supply pictures from the imports 1990s or prior of this specie!

this company has been primarily backed by Chinese government, to breed and reintroduce/release fish back into the Yangtze tributaries, including leptobotia elongata, but not limited to that. The hydroelectric companies were fined by the government for river dams and habitat destruction. Most of the ...

plaalye wrote:If they are that rare, maybe they should be left in the river?

we helped fund a breeding project to reintroduce this fish back into the wild, in return we were given permission to obtain some of these beauties. hope that answers your concerns

Most of all the previous imports of the "royal clown loaches" are of the easily confused Leptobotia pelligrini, which comes from Southern China, near Guangxi, Guangzhou, China. Many tropical fish are exported from that region, and that loach can reach nearly a foot in captivity. If you do not know w...

After years of fish keeping, I've finally found my dream fish. Leptobotia elongata., and this fish is much different than the one people use to call royal clownloach, which was often mislabeled as elongata, infact they were pelligrini. Our trip to find these took use over 10000 miles by plane, 1000 ...