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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

That's very interesting!!

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

Beautiful!

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

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