what kuhli is this?
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....which was my next angle of attackShari wrote:Worton, in pics 8 and 9 of the ones you've posted I can clearly see what looks like an eye spot...
The spot is central on the caudal peduncle, which is consistant with Emma's Lepidocephalichthys hasselti possibility. I think that rules out Acanthocobitis botia because the eye spot is very distinctively in the upper part of that area.
The reason that you can't read my link for worton is that it is in Polish. I was thinking outside the box. We are all assuming this fish is an "exotic".
Cobitis taenia is endemic to Poland....as is worton...so reading the pdf shouldn't be a problem. It is a threatened and protected species, but it's possible that one could have somehow got mixed in at a wholesalers or whatever? Just a thought
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Hey,
Wow, thats a lot of great new informations to read :).
Martin - this is not a young cobitis taenia for sure. I saw them few times and they look different from my fish and the second reason is that they spawn during the spring time - we got now -20C here and a middle of a winter ;)). However I was really stunned you posted link to polish site! :)
Emma - my fish looks exactly like this on your photos! It is also very close to Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei :]. I don't know how to say for sure what species I have :). Looking on the body coloration and a shape of a fish, my looks more like Lepidocephalichthys hasselti. I will try to take some better photos.
Graeme - my country is really strange if you go to pet shop and ask about the origin of a fish they will look at you like at crazy person then just shrug their arms and say "who cares? You buy it?". That's aslo nice sometimes since you pay half of US $ for a rare fish because they don't care what they sell :). I can only say that I found this single speciment in a tank with fresh import of kuhlis and I wanted dojo loach since they are really rare in my country :) - looks like I got something even more precious ;). Additional infromation that could help is that in another tank I saw few gastromyzon sp. which one - I have no idea :/.
Kuhli loach - which I guess would cause more interest hehe (looks like topic tittle is a bit wrong ;)) is alive but hide in really strange place - in a crack in a bogwood almost on a surface - it became active after lights go off :).
Now the question is what are demands of Lepidocephalichthys genus? I have to say that it's first time I ever hear about this genus :( so could anyone give me a bit of information how should I keep this little guy happy? I know that they like sand and are feeding by filtrating it through gills - I feed it yesterday with cyclops and fish looked really happy :) - lot's of sand to filtrate in searching of tasty cyclops :). I keep water temperature on 24C. There is a lot of water movement in a tank.
Thank you very much for you help guys! :)))
Edited:
It's me again ;).
I found this http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/le ... morei.html - so it could be a good idea to make about 30G tank with nice current and lots of rocks and bogwood for this little guy and a bunch of kuhlis? The tank fish are now in is my quarantine tank/breeding guppy tank. I also read they can need some algae in their diet - any ideas what should I feed this fish with?
Thank you one more time :)).
Edit 2:
Here are two next photos (showing caudal fin):
Fish is filtrating sand on these two photos.
I guess it will be not easy task to do photos of the belly :].
Wow, thats a lot of great new informations to read :).
Martin - this is not a young cobitis taenia for sure. I saw them few times and they look different from my fish and the second reason is that they spawn during the spring time - we got now -20C here and a middle of a winter ;)). However I was really stunned you posted link to polish site! :)
Emma - my fish looks exactly like this on your photos! It is also very close to Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei :]. I don't know how to say for sure what species I have :). Looking on the body coloration and a shape of a fish, my looks more like Lepidocephalichthys hasselti. I will try to take some better photos.
Graeme - my country is really strange if you go to pet shop and ask about the origin of a fish they will look at you like at crazy person then just shrug their arms and say "who cares? You buy it?". That's aslo nice sometimes since you pay half of US $ for a rare fish because they don't care what they sell :). I can only say that I found this single speciment in a tank with fresh import of kuhlis and I wanted dojo loach since they are really rare in my country :) - looks like I got something even more precious ;). Additional infromation that could help is that in another tank I saw few gastromyzon sp. which one - I have no idea :/.
Kuhli loach - which I guess would cause more interest hehe (looks like topic tittle is a bit wrong ;)) is alive but hide in really strange place - in a crack in a bogwood almost on a surface - it became active after lights go off :).
Now the question is what are demands of Lepidocephalichthys genus? I have to say that it's first time I ever hear about this genus :( so could anyone give me a bit of information how should I keep this little guy happy? I know that they like sand and are feeding by filtrating it through gills - I feed it yesterday with cyclops and fish looked really happy :) - lot's of sand to filtrate in searching of tasty cyclops :). I keep water temperature on 24C. There is a lot of water movement in a tank.
Thank you very much for you help guys! :)))
Edited:
It's me again ;).
I found this http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/le ... morei.html - so it could be a good idea to make about 30G tank with nice current and lots of rocks and bogwood for this little guy and a bunch of kuhlis? The tank fish are now in is my quarantine tank/breeding guppy tank. I also read they can need some algae in their diet - any ideas what should I feed this fish with?
Thank you one more time :)).
Edit 2:
Here are two next photos (showing caudal fin):
Fish is filtrating sand on these two photos.
I guess it will be not easy task to do photos of the belly :].
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Hey,
what about this paper Mike? I'm really curious to see it! :)
Little Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei is doing fine. It loves bloodworms :) and catfish chips :), it's not interestd in flakes :/. I just wonder if there is any way to find a food it could filtrate from sand, maybe live bloodworms? What animals live in a sand?
Regards.
what about this paper Mike? I'm really curious to see it! :)
Little Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei is doing fine. It loves bloodworms :) and catfish chips :), it's not interestd in flakes :/. I just wonder if there is any way to find a food it could filtrate from sand, maybe live bloodworms? What animals live in a sand?
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I wonder if it's the same paper that i keep Mike? I suppose if you can send me a copy we would see.
worton, I'm sure any foods that is in the substrate will be filtered out by the L. berdmorei. Mine often eats crushed flake that lie's on the substrate. Not there first choice food i must add.
Graeme.
worton, I'm sure any foods that is in the substrate will be filtered out by the L. berdmorei. Mine often eats crushed flake that lie's on the substrate. Not there first choice food i must add.
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