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Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:28 am**

hi there,
i ordered 12 Pseudogastromyzon fangi this morning the parcel has arrived
they are vom 5cm to 7cm large.

more pics soon

regards farid

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:02 am**

Hi Farid,

You mean Pseudogastromyzon or not? Are they from "Aquarium Glaser"? I really like the loaches of this genus, but I haven't one of them.

I wait for more pics.

Bye,
Thomas

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:35 am**

hi thomas,
just changed thanks for the hint! i got them from http://catfish-paradise.ch

farid

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:58 pm**

Congrats farid!

You shouldn't have to much trouble breeding these, I cant remember what water parameters mine where when i bred mine but basically all of my tanks are kept in neutral waters, fresh tap water normally of ph7.2 but drops to 6.8. and general 8 - 12 dH, 140 - 210 ppm.

Best of luck!

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:00 pm**

hi graeme,
i'll try my best...but i have to sell the 30 to 35 sturisomas befire i think of fangi fry

thanks für the parameters!

farid

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:36 am**

Hi farid.
I have probably raised 3 kinds of Pseudogastromyzon genus by now.

I thought Pseudogastromyzon.sp of the following my pictures was "fangi".

Because that was same as pictures of Species Index in LOL.
http://www.loaches.com/species-index/ps ... yzon-fangi

But your Pseudogastromyzon is similar to "fangi" of FishBase.
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/species ... p?ID=55024

Umm, it's disturbing.

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:01 pm**

hi odyssey
i have no idea how goog fishbase is...

and i am also not that sure that mine is a fangi because in the same order also orderes 15 G. punctulatus as the dealer wrote me an email to tell me he can organize P.fangi and G. punctulatus finely i got "fangi's" if it's the real one???

and i got of course not a punctulatus but 3ocellatus stellatus and ctenocephalus as i expected.

so maybe someone can help?

cheers
farid

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:08 pm**

update:
i just found it it's a P.fasciatus

it will be more or less the same behavour like the chenis i guess..

maybe martin can tell me more about them??? (i found your pic on a italian site

)

farid

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:46 pm**

farid, i don't think yours is fasciatus in Martins pics and the fish i've just got , it shows a double bar on the head whereas your fish are spotted .
also Odyssey posted his on the hill stream thread and his again showed the two bars.
unless it's a variant that is?.

mick

Posted: **Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:06 am**

hi mick,
i found one last night with spots all over ...a big bigger at the end...si i guess i'll wait a bit until they also show some colours.

i have to theck all about the two bars...

thanks so far
farid

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:27 am**

Hi farid.

I'm very interested in your Pseudogastromyzon.sp.
I think there is a possibility that your Pseudogastromyzon.sp is different from the fish species of my picture and P.fasciatus in mick.

Could you show me a picture from the back?
A comparative picture of Pseudogastromyzon genus from the back has been put on a different thread of mick.
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... 3&start=15

Regards.
Odyssey.

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:10 am**

Hey guys! Here is approximately the species in this genus:

Pseudogastromyzon buas (Mai, 1978)
Pseudogastromyzon changtingensis (Liang, 1942)
Pseudogastromyzon cheni (Liang, 1942)
Pseudogastromyzon daon (Mai, 1978)
Pseudogastromyzon elongata (Mai, 1978)
Pseudogastromyzon fangi (Nichols, 1931)
Pseudogastromyzon elongatus (Mai, 1978)
Pseudogastromyzon fasciatus (Sauvage, 1878)
Pseudogastromyzon lianjiangensis (Zheng, 1981)
Pseudogastromyzon loos (Mai, 1978)
Pseudogastromyzon myersi (Herre, 1932)
Pseudogastromyzon peristictus (Zheng & Li, 1986)
Pseudogastromyzon meihuashanensis (Li, 1998)

Without knowing what they all look like..... It's going to be a ongoing discussion.

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:50 am**

hi odissey
i will try soon as the dont hide anymore .at the moment they're all gone.

farid

Posted: **Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:36 am**

Here's a few pictures for you chaps to debate over.

Pseudogastromyzon fangi

Pseudogastromyzon laticeps

Pseudogastromyzon peristictus

Pseudogastromyzon tungpeiensis

Posted: **Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:13 am**

Thank you for preparing pictures, Graeme.

The pictures posted to the thread of hill stream P.fasciatus are also copied to this thread.

The first Pseudogastromyzon.sp and fasciatus? . 2005-2006.
A very small individual was mingled with P.cheni, and they were sold.

Very big individual. P.fasciatus? 2006.

Individual with the medium size. P.fasciatus? 2008.

Pseudogastromyzon.sp ??fangi?? 2007.
I think farid's new Pseudogastromyzon.sp is the different species.

General Pseudogastromyzon cheni.

Aren't at least 4 species of Pseudogastromyzon genus sold including P.cheni?

Odyssey.