Interesting leptobotia

Mike Ophir · Post by **Mike Ophir** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:39 pm

hi all, thought I would share some photos of interesting loaches...

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/ ... =imgAnch71

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/ ... imgAnch103

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/ ... imgAnch108

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/ ... imgAnch107

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/ ... imgAnch105

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/ ... imgAnch181

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/ ... imgAnch206

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:34 am

Wow!!!

Thanks for sharing these Mike!

Some really gorgeous loaches there.

Emma

mamaschild · Post by **mamaschild** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:11 am

BEAUTIFUL....so colorful

I really like the look of that last one

Mike Ophir · Post by **Mike Ophir** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:44 pm

haha, yea they are quite interesting looking. Too bad they dont appear too often in the aquarium fish hobby. I am sure they would be quite popular amongst loach enthusiasts.

Mike

Jim Powers · Post by **Jim Powers** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:18 pm

They all look like the type of fish that show up as contaminants in shipments of more common species.

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:58 pm

Too bad that we now have such tight restrictions on a lot of these Chinese fish coming into the UK.

I think the first one is my favourite.

Emma

helen nightingale · Post by **helen nightingale** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:32 pm

they are gorgeous

Emma do you get many fish like these come into your shop?

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:54 pm

helen nightingale wrote:Emma do you get many fish like these come into your shop?

We usually have between 30 and 40 species of loach on sale at any one time (PM me if you'd ever like to see a current loach stocklist

).
Sadly though, we're not allowed to import a lot of the temperate Chinese species, and recently even tighter regulations mean that we won't get to see a lot of species we had been seeing.

It's all rather crazy as the chances of the affected species surviving in our native waters over winter, let alone breeding, has got to be close to zero.

Emma

helen nightingale · Post by **helen nightingale** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:06 pm

Thanks Emma. that would be too tempting at the moment, as i have no more room for more fish

hopefully in a month or two i can get the new tank going, and then i wont quite know what to do with myself

is your shop the one at Crowland?

do you know the ruined abbey/church thing in crowland? do you reckon it looks like a monkey with big ears from a distance?or it is just me and a few other weirdos that i work with?

sophie · Post by **sophie** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:16 pm

helen nightingale wrote:Thanks Emma. that would be too tempting at the moment, as i have no more room for more fish

hopefully in a month or two i can get the new tank going, and then i wont quite know what to do with myself is your shop the one at Crowland?

do you know the ruined abbey/church thing in crowland? do you reckon it looks like a monkey with big ears from a distance?or it is just me and a few other weirdos that i work with?

the one on that long straight stretch of road just past the roundabout?

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:55 pm

helen nightingale wrote: do you know the ruined abbey/church thing in crowland?

Yep, I live less than half a mile from it!

helen nightingale wrote:do you reckon it looks like a monkey with big ears from a distance?or it is just me and a few other weirdos that i work with?

Hmmm, never really thought of it like that - but I'm never going to look at in the same way again now!!!

Sophie - we're off of a long straight road called the A1073, but it's about 5 miles from a roundabout.

sophie · Post by **sophie** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:02 pm

I may have the roundabout bit wrong; I can't think of another abbey? the one I'm thinking of is weirdly lovely, utterly ruinous and deserted. and in a very unromantic place.
I think it must be visible from the a47, near a signpost to the saint tilneys and wiggenhalls and stuff. Eye Green. Wisbech.
though I could have all that wrong, too. I shall be making notes on the journey back, next time.

the fish are wonderful. I'm especially keen on the Parabotia bimaculata and the vanmanenia.

helen nightingale · Post by **helen nightingale** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:10 pm

go from peterborough way to thorney via crowland, and the abbey looks like a monkey. sorry i cant remeber the road numbers, i will check on a map later. i dont think it looks so much like a monkey if you approach from the thorney direction though. your description of the abbey sounds right, especially when you get closer. it is a pretty place, as is that really unusual bridge in the town centre.

Martin Thoene · Post by **Martin Thoene** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:02 pm

I couldn't work out what you were on about till I found this.....

looks a bit King-Kongish.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x ... newmap.srf (MAP)

Martin.

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:16 pm

Some more info here: http://croylandabbey.co.uk/ (Crowland used to be known as Croyland).

The Trinity Bridge, whilst being ancient and unique, is a total PITA to negotiate when driving around it!

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