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Posted: **Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:42 pm**

I was given 20+ loaches a few days ago by a guy that was going to start keeping some other types of fish. He has had some of them for as long as 10 years.

There are 5 polka-dot (Botia kubotai) betweem 4 amd 5 inches. A few of them have orange in their pectoral fins. Have any of you seen this on other polka-dots?

Posted: **Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:04 am**

Some of my kubotai's and rostrata have this orange in the finnage, at times it appears become more intense.

I have a couple of rostrata that have started showing more red in the pectoral fins.

Posted: **Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:06 pm**

Thank you, Mad Duff, for your comments. I had never seen this before in any pictures of this fish, so was wondering.

Going to have to be me some of the rostrata. I think I have a tank I can put them in. Better have, because I can't add any more tanks.

Posted: **Fri Nov 26, 2010 1:15 am**

wow. They are beautiful large fish. None of my 12 little kubotai have any orange, but I only just transfered them to a 6ft tank today so they are a little washed out at the moment (but swiming around the tank at break-neck speed.... massive change from their previous activity in the temporary 2ft tank).

Posted: **Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:43 am**

Here are a couple of pics of some of my rostrata's showing the orange in their fins including dorsal

Posted: **Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:55 am**

Lovely fish!

Posted: **Fri Nov 26, 2010 10:50 am**

very nice fish

are these your older one's or those different one's from Pier

How big are the fish in the pics

Posted: **Fri Nov 26, 2010 11:15 am**

Love the Kub pics, just great how their patterns shrink to almost no pattern at all. Wonderful!

Posted: **Sat Nov 27, 2010 5:01 am**

piggy4 wrote:very nice fish are these your older one's or those different one's from Pier

How big are the fish in the pics

These are my older ones Andy, the fish in the secong pi are around 3" there and the others are over 5"

It is the newer ones that are showing the red in the fins, as soon as their tank is ready for them to move into I will get some pics

Posted: **Sat Nov 27, 2010 5:32 am**

Some mature rostratas I had developed the orange finnage, but I have never seen it on kubotai. Very nice!!

Posted: **Sat Nov 27, 2010 4:47 pm**

Thanks Mark , look forward to that

Posted: **Sun Nov 28, 2010 6:20 am**

Hi Bookpage , Kubotai are a strange loach in that the variety of pattern density doesn't seem to relate to age

I'd guess they are caught at different locations and then lumped together at the shipping stations

Is that a Denisoni I see in the background or a Chalakudinensis

Posted: **Sun Nov 28, 2010 11:10 am**

Besides the Kubotai, he gave me three Denisoni that about 6" long. Really nice fish, but too large for my 125.

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orange fins on polka-dot loaches?

orange fins on polka-dot loaches?