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Its certainly unusual Jim, I did see a photo of a large wild rostrata last year with a lot of red colouration and am wondering if this was a similar thing.

Neil they settled in lovely mate, not as much clicking as I expected but all 15 seem happy enough today

Thank you EmilyMarie

These two fish are part of my group of 15 Y. splendida, I had noticed a small bit of colouration on one of my group a while ago but nothing to this extent: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/MadDuff/Loaches/Y%20splendida/Splendida%20male/DSC_7952.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/MadDuff/Lo...

Wonderful stuff

Nice tanks

My old club used to do something similar at a local agricultural show and the local library, these events were usually a month or so before our open show which gave us quite a bit of publicity and brought a few new people to the hobby.

Its a fair point Mike, a lot more work needs doing for sure. I have photos of fish that I have bought as rostrata that have turned in to kubotai add to that the fact that very few people think that sidthimunki and nigrolineata shouldnt have been added to Yasuhikotakia, you are only stating what a he...

Thanks Jason

Thanks for all the replies guys, much appreciated

Jim - I have taken pics of the confuzona just sorting some stuff out and then I will get them posted

Yeah it was the eyes that I first spotted Jim, I just assumed it was a mysis shrimp until I looked closer, I hope that were there is one there will be more, the way the adults go at food it would be months before anything felt safe enough to come out into open water

I have adjusted and cleaned up the image a bit Jim



Its more visible now but a bit distorted

Thank you, Now I know there is at least one there I will keep a look out and try for a better photo

After finding the eggs in my Y. splendida tank everyone has been asking for photos of them and the confuzona, so this afternoon I went down the shed and took some photos, oh was I in for a surprise. This is the best pic I could get of the eggs in the pipe, I moved a cobble and you can just make out ...

I have tried a couple of photos Jim but because I am shooting at an angle to see down the side of the pipe I cant get anything clear enough There is no way of getting a pipe near enough to syphon them without moving rocks and as soon as I move rocks the pipes will move (bit like jenga lol) Cant even...

As the title says it was a good day yesterday, first of all I finished stripping down the old river tank that housed by group of adult homaloptera confuzona, all the adult died a few months back all within weeks of each other (still don't know the cause as everything else was fine), well I now have ...

Excellent stuff Deepak

Cant wait to see more pics as they grow

very nice fish :!: are these your older one's or those different one's from Pier :?: How big are the fish in the pics :?: These are my older ones Andy, the fish in the secong pi are around 3" there and the others are over 5" It is the newer ones that are showing the red in the fins, as soon as thei...