Yasuhikotakia splendida colouration

[Mad Duff]

These two fish are part of my group of 15 Y. splendida, I had noticed a small bit of colouration on one of my group a while ago but nothing to this extent:







This is definately not artificial colouring or a problem with the fish as the intensity of colouration changes and rapidly at times, I am assumimg that this is male maturity/spawning colouration as I have never heard reports of it been seen before

[Jim Powers]

That's very interesting!!

[Northern Monkey]

Nice fish Mark,How did they mix when you put them with your established group?
Blushing splendida loaches

[EmilyMarie85]

Beautiful!

[Mad Duff]

Its certainly unusual Jim, I did see a photo of a large wild rostrata last year with a lot of red colouration and am wondering if this was a similar thing.

Neil they settled in lovely mate, not as much clicking as I expected but all 15 seem happy enough today

Thank you EmilyMarie

[Barracuda518]

Very interesting indeed. I dont think Ive seen any with that coloration before. Please keep me updated.