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One our way home from the CSG convention we called into Pier aquatics and I picked up these loaches:

Two very nicely marked kubotai (not great pics in bags) both fish 5”+
This photo doesn’t do this fish justice as it doesn’t show the intense yellow body colouration


This one has lovely big circle pattern


and even in the tail


Nice little rostrata


Strangely marked almorhae

Fine specimens!!

I was tempted by the Kubotai myself as they are stunning, maybe sometime in the future, especially at the size they were at.

I like that little Almorhae.. Wish I had seen him that morning as you wouldn't have him now

Hi Mark , great choices !

Doc wrote:Wish I had seen him that morning as you wouldn't have him now

I just spotted a nose sticking out from behind the wood and asked Neil to move it and they were behind it, they were bagged within a couple of minutes of me getting into the shop

Yeah Mark can be like a Eagle.......the bugger sniffs out a deal before he walks into the place....

Mark, you have to be running outta room in your tanks bud.

mick

7 new tanks coming soon Mick - Oh yeah

Possibly 8 if I can ditch the wifes platies

wait till i get all my tanks up and running mate.
i only have 17 set up now but it will grow into 50 when they're all setup.

mick

mickthefish wrote:wait till i get all my tanks up and running mate.
i only have 17 set up now but it will grow into 50 when they're all setup.

mick

That's a big collection of tanks you got!!! but I understand if I had a space maybe I'm in thesame situation as you are I wonder how much electricity bill you got?

it's pretty reasonable mate, i mainly use the central heating in winter and up into spring then in summer i don't use any heaters or the heating as it can get very warm in the fish room, so the only real power i'm using is lights and filters.

mick

I think it's time to coin a new expression (or perhaps it's an ancient one) - you guys are "going loachy"! Perhaps there are some advantages living in a place with poor selection!!

You guys are simply...........OUT OF CONTROL!!!!! You are like an Acela Express train chugging along at 200 miles/hr with no signs of stopping at any station....even to refill on fuel.

Wow..simply wow.

Great looking fish. The same thing just happened to me last weekend. I walked into the store, saw three little noses, moved the wood, and was blown away by six beautiful kubotai, all about 4-5'. This store rarely has loaches in stock and when they do they are very small and usually skinny and ill, I couldn't believe it. Then they were immediately bagged, the worker said she knew I was going to buy them when she saw me walk in, haha.

I don't have many tanks [yet], just four, but since I'm not making much money at the moment and I have to move again in a few months I don't have many. I love reading about yall's many tanks and fish. Yall are what my lady calls "bad influences"

Rubix wrote:Yall are what my lady calls "bad influences"

Ive lost count of the ammount of times I have been called that