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This weekend I posted my first question on loaches.com and got some replies right away. Those answers turned out to be spot on.

I've used loaches.com regularly over the years and actually contributed a little back in the 90s when I had observed what I was certain was breeding behaviour in what was ...

I went to the shop in Copenhagen and saw them in real life. They were indeed Beaufortia kweichowensis. Most of them weren't as brightly colored as the one in the picture.

Thanks a lot. Am I right in thinking that the fish in the picture is a fairly young specimen? I haven't seen adult Beaufortia kweichowensis with such bright colors before?

A local aquarium fish shop in Copenhagen has a hillstream loach for sale. They call it Gastromyzon boreneensis , but that's not a valid name as far as I know. I seem to remember reading somewhere that it has been used as a synonym for Pseudogastromyzon myersi , but that looks even less like the fish ...