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Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:52 pm
by Emma Turner
Thought I'd share some pics of our latest additions, some beautiful 8" (20cm) Triplophysa siluroides. We're in absolute awe! What amazing loaches! 8)

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Emma

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:51 pm
by Graeme Robson
8) 8) 8)

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 8:26 pm
by Jim Powers
WOW! :shock:

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:12 pm
by starsplitter7
Wow! That's an amazing fish. Looks like a loachy sturgeon. :)

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:57 pm
by NancyD
What a fantastic loach!

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:58 pm
by Jim Powers
Looks like a loachy sturgeon. :)
:lol: That's very true!

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:29 pm
by chefkeith
Nice Big Loach! Looks like a catfish. I guess that's why it's common name is Catfish-like Loach :-)

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:00 am
by Matt
Are these captive-bred or wild caught?

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 11:42 am
by wasserscheu
Congrats, that's some admirably "Sharky" 8) Found it so fsacinating, started looking for it right away. The one on Fishbase, shows assymetric pattern, it says it gets up to 50cm (1 1/2 ').

http://www.fishbase.gr/Summary/SpeciesS ... ang=German

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that correlates with the profile here at LOL:

http://www.loaches.com/species-index/tr ... siluroides

Looks like you'll be buying the bigger shrimp packages now :-)))

That site shows very interesting photos ... nice and rare pictures 8)

http://www.basilaqua.com.cn/html_en/htm ... _right.htm

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beeing caught by those pic's, isn't that the dorsal of Pseudogastromyzon Cheny?! "funny" the designers copied :))))

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Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:24 pm
by Thomas
Hi Emma,

any chance to see a movie of them? while feeding?
Would be nice.

Cheers,
Thomas

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 4:20 pm
by millsn
Looks like he'll get big :D

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 7:49 pm
by Emma Turner
Thanks all! :D

Thomas - we'll let them settle in for a bit first, then see if we can get better pictures and maybe a video at feeding time.

Matt - these are wild caught fish, individually hand caught by net.

Here's a couple more pics. Apologies for the reflection in the first one, thought I would include it so you could get a proper idea of size:

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And a lucky shot of one swimming along the front of the tank:

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Emma

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:22 am
by Graeme Robson
He's a mighty Loach!!! All seems fine at the moment. 8) 8) 8)

Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:43 pm
by amiidae
Awesome looking loach.

What water temperature is he in ?

A batch landed in S'pore and I was lucky to take a few shots.Here is one of them.
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Re: Triplophysa siluroides

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 2:06 am
by ClownLoachSharky
Nice photo :D