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Can someone show me the suborbital spines?
I know they exist, I heard the clicking sounds, I know they can be poisonous/allergic, and can get tangled in a net. But I've never seen them.
Are there some pictures or drawings of the spines?
Please, don't let me suffer from unsatisfied curiosity
)))

Here's a thread showing on one of Emma's great fish.

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... tal+spines

There's a search function at the top of the page that I used to find this. Sometimes it works great, other times you get back a lot of stuff you're not looking for.

Luckily if you can't find it, someone will almost always find it for you.

Thanks for your help ))
I tried the seach funtion before posting and found some theads but pictures in them were invalid.

Maire, look straight under the eye and there's a semicircular groove,
when the fish is defending itself the blade springs out.
if you catch your botias in a net just turn the net without handling the fish otherwise you can be cut.

mick

Maire wrote:Thanks for your help ))
I tried the seach funtion before posting and found some theads but pictures in them were invalid.

Did the picture work when I sent the link to you? I asked the same question a while back about Dojos. And they also have the spine. My fish seldom show the spine when I am looking.

I find the search works great sometimes, but other times not as well.

Did you check out the great Loach book put out by members of this forum? Came out in December. Great pictures.

Look at this.............

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7o4wUp_lZn4&feature=related

Martin.

[quote="mickthefish"] Good advice!)))

My botias are so afraid of the net that it's impossible to catch them with it. I'm trying to get them comfortable with the net ... suppose the process will take a lot of time.
Last week my new 180 l tank got a leak and I had to tranfer all the fish into my old one very promptly- well, a transparent plastic box did the trick.

BTW...the spines aren't poisonous just very, very sharp.

Martin Thoene wrote:Look at this.............

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7o4wUp_lZn4&feature=related

Martin.

VERY enlightening video - just what I wanted.
Thanks.

starsplitter7

No, I didn't check the great Loach book. Is it a book or websourse?

Maire wrote:

starsplitter7

No, I didn't check the great Loach book. Is it a book or websourse?

It is a book written by members of this forum.

http://www.amazon.com/Loaches-Natural-H ... 137&sr=8-1

You should see a postit on the forum for the book.

And its not sub-ORBITAL its sub-OCULAR

Rocco wrote:And its not sub-ORBITAL its sub-OCULAR

Please forgive me my bad English, I had a Russian definition of the term, translted it ="suborbital". To be sure, I went to the LOL's Glossary of Terms - it clearly says "Suborbital".

Rocco wrote:And its not sub-ORBITAL its sub-OCULAR

Orbital and ocular is the same.eye.

Read up.

Heh, sorry,

When I saw suborbital I thought astronomy.