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Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:24 pm**

I just stumbled across these photographs I took back at the beginning of October when I gave my parents 4ft loach tank an overhaul. I'd totally forgotten I'd taken them:

This one is not the best shot but shows their elusive loach with weird markings (came in the same batch as all the other Histies):

And a couple of the shy but totally stunning adult B. striata:

If I remember rightly there are 6 B. histrionica and 6 B. striata. I hadn't taken any shots of the entire tank, but here are a couple of very short vids that show the Histies doing the loachy dance and exploring their new surroundings:
http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/ ... CN9374.flv
http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/ ... CN9375.flv

Emma

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:58 pm**

Nice shots! I love the striata - nice and plump.

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:15 pm**

Beautiful tank and very beautiful fish

Ashleigh

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:18 pm**

Obviously, keeping amazing (and very healthy) loaches runs in the family.

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:38 pm**

Emma:

The fish and the photographs are absolutely stunning.

TR

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:28 pm**

Nice and Healthy!

The Histies apear to have some good size to them. How old do you reckon they are?

Posted: **Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:35 am**

emma, very impressive fish and photos

thank you for sharing. i only wish i could get my parents into the hobby - ive been trying for quite some time but no assimilation yet

Posted: **Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:30 am**

thanks for sharing indeed! very nice fish! the adult striata looks very good!

Posted: **Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:26 am**

Stunning!!

Posted: **Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:15 pm**

Thanks all, I will pass on the kind words.

Robert - we've been trying to think how old those B. histrionica are, and seem to remember adding them as smallish 2" juveniles about 4 years ago.

Emma

Posted: **Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:27 pm**

beautiful fish and pics emma.
love the striata's.

mick

Posted: **Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:48 pm**

Cheers Mick. I bet my parents get fed up of me when I visit them - I spend a lot of time staring into that tank (and on occasion, helping to maintain it).......

Emma

Posted: **Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:03 pm**

striata are the best! nice pics!

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:20 pm**

Hi Emma , firstly wonderful vids and pics SUPERB !
Secondly , are any of the Striatas in these pics that largish fish you have shown before ?

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:53 pm**

Thanks LO and Andy.

Andy - that big-ish B. striata that is shown in this pic:

is indeed still in the tank.
I wasn't sure if it was shown in any of the above pics, so I'll show the main one again so we can compare:

The B. histrionica all somewhat dwarf the B. striata, but the Histies are on the large side!

Emma

EDIT: Going by the markings, and unless they have changed quite a bit, I think these show different fish.

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Some pics from my parents loach tank

Some pics from my parents loach tank