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Botia Rostrata

Post by ClownLoachSharky » Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:24 pm

Hey guys. Just made a page for botia rostrata on wikipedia here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botia_rostrata. Please can you contribute to it as it is pretty uncomplete at the moment.
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Re: Botia Rostrata

Post by ClownLoachSharky » Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:44 am

yea thats a cool page. i used information from their.
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Re: Botia Rostrata

Post by Northern Monkey » Mon Dec 26, 2011 5:20 pm

Hi .The species index temperature is too high the adult size is wrong too., these adult fish are living in cooler water .
I import them regularly from a good source I can help you with the info you need please pm ..me .
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Re: Botia Rostrata

Post by piggy4 » Sat Dec 31, 2011 4:19 am

What size and temp please ?
Size I'd guess at 4 to 5 inch ?

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Re: Botia Rostrata

Post by Jim Powers » Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:37 pm

Temp.? I'm looking into that.
size? You are probably about right on that, but I want to look into that, too.
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Re: Botia Rostrata

Post by piggy4 » Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:33 am

There remains quite a bit of confusion about these Indian/Pakistan Botia's ,for instance I read somewhere that B.birdi could be up to 2 pounds in weight , and they look superficially similar to Rostrata according to reports ' I think they are found in north eastern Pakistan ,so its a good bet we haven't encountered them ?

When TheDarkone did his work on the Botia group he thought it was possible that we were dealing with 2 maybe 3 different fish that look superficially similar ,all under the Rostrata banner ?

When you buy Rostratas as small fish they alter as they age ,but they differ from each other, there's the one where the pattern becomes an all over spotted not too disimilar to B.kubota ?

And the one where the bands develope spots within the bars , and seem generally smaller but chunkier ?

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Re: Botia Rostrata

Post by ClownLoachSharky » Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:11 pm

Wow. Anyway they are very similar to almorhae and my last purchase of almorhae had 2 rostratas in it and they have been bin australia for 40 years. i guess they are easily mixed up and perhaps come from the same place
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