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it's a clown barb Scott, Puntius everettii.

mick

i'm with Mike O, Y caudipunctata are my favourites.

mick

great pics Martin. still not sure about slr because of the price of the lenses and flash equipment.

mick

youwere given an algae eater not a dojo loach highlandloach, it does happen sometimes that you get the mottled effect usually they stay this colour and never revert back to golden.

mick

sorry Jim i duplicated the last pic it should have been one of each.
here's the other garra that i got a pic of.


mick

here's a couple of mine, one has never had much colour in it's finnage.



mick

it's possible Jim, all my tanks now have coral gravel in the filters to buffer the water up and so far the ones i bought from Emmas are holding their colour well.

mick

i know that my water supply is buffered with a temporary hardness and like you the ph falls very quickly, in the south they have a high carbonate buffer that keeps the ph stable .

mick

Hi Jim, sorry i missed your thread, it's a wierd thing with this Garra where i live they always look dirty in the shops no vibrance to the colours, yet from the same exporter the garrra's in the southern part of the UK have very strong colours and a well defined pattern. which leads to to a thought ...

thats what i thought Martin, just forgot how to spell leucistic earlier, lol

mick

it's a beauty Brad, and all natural which i like, it has the gene's to become the colour it has bud.

mick

it's a credit to you mate, i wouldn't have took the job on looking at the state you got it in.

mick

rub it in why don't you Mark, i'm still waiting for my share bud. lol

mick

hi all this is the only pic i've been able to take of this loachwhich came from one of TDO's tanks to my tank, it is a beaut of a loach not to aggressive. less rabbiting anyway here's the pic. http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j25/mickthefish/DSC01501.jpg hope you like it. not bothered anyway cos i ...

the same answer as Diana, get rid of the plec, one of the tanks at bolton museum had a 25 inch plec that used to eat the cichlids food even of the surface, get a smaller L number or a BN.

mick