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helen nightingale
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Post by helen nightingale » Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:33 am

we have had some good news :D the builder at the new house has finally been sacked :P :P :P so we now have another bloke starting soon, who reckons he can get the place finished pretty quick :D so hopefully i wont have to wait to long to get the new tank up and running. so Emma now wont have to fish sit for the lovely oddball for so long :D

Emma thank you so much for offering to show me your fish. that would be great. i would really love to, but this time im not sure i will be able to :( . my bosses have now decided to go onion digging your wat on thursday instead, and then i will probably have to go back to work (in cambridge), rather than head home. i may stop by if i can get away with it though! thanks again.

thanks for all your info on sewlia tank sizes. i will take note and start the search for a 3ft tank - that should fit in well. i think i also need a pay rise!
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Post by Gary Herring » Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:40 am

helen nightingale wrote: i think i also need a pay rise!
Tell me about it!! :lol:
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Post by Emma Turner » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:33 am

Good news about the builder, Helen! 8) Hopefully the house will now be finished a lot quicker than you had thought. :D

It's a shame you may not be around on Weds, but you are welcome any time you are in the area - just let me know! :wink:

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Post by helen nightingale » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:53 pm

thanks Emma :D
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Post by Emma Turner » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:51 pm

Here's a quick pic of Helen's lovely reserved loach:

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It came in with our last batch of Botia almorhae from India.

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Post by mikev » Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:13 pm

Wow. Nice fish and something special indeed...

How large is it?
Yoyo's tend not to maintain sharp pattern like we see here above about 2.5"....if it is this size of large it may be a variant Kubotai rather than a Yoyo?
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Post by Emma Turner » Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:25 pm

It's 3" total length, and came directly from India.

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Post by Mark in Vancouver » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:28 pm

India?? Lucky Helen!

How can you be sure it was collected in India? Just curious, not doubting.
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Post by Emma Turner » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:52 am

I order Yo-yos directly from India, not through a wholesaler, or from another country who have Indian fish in stock. It's a company we've been using for a long time, and he only sells native fish.

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Post by avant » Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:59 am

interesting looking..
any ID on it so far?
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Post by Desi » Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:52 pm

That looks amazingly like my "Sergeant Major Loach"es that I got from Petsmart a little more than a year ago. I posted the best pic I could get on my flickr site My largest is approximately 2.5" they are crazy loaches always moving and going if they are not sleepin in the cave thing. I put my lone Kubotai in there and it schools like they were brothers which I am thankful for as the poor thing was so lonely after its friends died and I couldn't get more. I love mine and if yours is indeed similar they are so active and fun to watch.
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Post by mikev » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:28 pm

Does anyone know the ray counts for Botias? -- are they all the same, or what are the numbers? Perhaps it makes sense to check this new loach against Yoyo's and Kubotai's this way.
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Post by NancyD » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:59 pm

To me it looks similar to an older kubotai where the spots keep getting smaller, dividing as they age. I realize kubotais are from Myanmar.
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Post by Martin Thoene » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:59 pm

OMG! that is A-mazing! Really nice looking fish. It's like an adult almorhae with "definition".

No wonder you want it.

It's truly incredible that after being into loaches for nearly 8 years now, every so often something comes along that blows my hair back.

Niiiiiiice :)

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Post by Jim Powers » Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:31 pm

Very interesting looking fish! That looks a bit like the so called "veiled" pattern of a kubotai but in the extreme.
This species certainly seems to exhibit a wide range of patterns. Just check out the species index pics.
http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/bo ... anmar.html
But then again, it looks somewhat like an older yoyo, too....
which it probably would be if it was from India. Hmmmm :?
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