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Helen, I was experimenting with the video on my parents camera again this evening ( ), whilst waiting for our fish shipments, and I took a short clip of your 'mystery loach'....
http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/ ... h=imgAnch1
He's in a tank with some Festivums, Schistura nicholsi, and Garra fuliginosa and is now being well behaved. I think he's already looking less thin than he was to start with too.
The video clips are a lot clearer when I watch them in Nikon View (the programme that came with my camera) but becomes rather more pixelated on photobucket for some reason. Never mind, I hope you like it.
Emma
http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/ ... h=imgAnch1
He's in a tank with some Festivums, Schistura nicholsi, and Garra fuliginosa and is now being well behaved. I think he's already looking less thin than he was to start with too.
The video clips are a lot clearer when I watch them in Nikon View (the programme that came with my camera) but becomes rather more pixelated on photobucket for some reason. Never mind, I hope you like it.
Emma
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I reckon he'll be just fine with other moderately fiesty botias to keep him occupied, such as the B. almorhae's that he came in with. I think the reason that he was being a bit aggressive at the shop was probably our fault for initially moving him to a tank that the young Heros notatus were occupying at the time. Stock tanks are quite small, compared to the average sized tanks these sort of fish are normally kept in long term. I think he'll settle into yours just fine.
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Helen,
Here's an updated pic of your mystery loach. I think he's starting to get a little belly on him now.
Emma
Here's an updated pic of your mystery loach. I think he's starting to get a little belly on him now.
Emma
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I would say that this is B. kubotai, definetly too elongated and spotted to be rostrata.....could possibly be a B. almorhae as that species tends to get a reticulated pattern over time, but I do not think to this extent. Possibility 3 is its a hybrid....doubt it....highly. No other species fits the bill, can't really be one of Kamphol's "Tenaaserim Emperor Loaches." So it must be a B. kubotai.
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It does look most like the "veiled" pattern of kubotai to me.
It seems to have more yellow on the fins than any I have seen before.
http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/bo ... anmar.html
It seems to have more yellow on the fins than any I have seen before.
http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/bo ... anmar.html
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