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This you've got to see........
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:45 pm
by Martin Thoene
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:27 pm
by H3D
Hungry, hungry loaches!
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:13 pm
by Jim Powers
Very cool! That histrionica (if that is what it is) is stunning
And those clowns are, as always, entertaining.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:09 am
by Mark in Vancouver
The histrionica (or kubotai?) is HUGE! Advanced age in yet another species. I suppose we should contact this person and find out more.
And it never occurred to me to just float lettuce like that. Duh. Youtube is good for something after all.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:03 am
by mistergreen
the 'histrionica' seems too big... and the patterns doesn't fit the species.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:59 am
by Graeme Robson
Thats the Champion of Champions Botia histrionica. It's won many prizes around the UK in fish shows. I think it belongs to Dave Marshall.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:15 am
by Mad Duff
what a fish
If it is David Marshall from Rydale club I will find out, I know he has a lot of Loaches but hes never mentioned a B. Histrionica that size.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:43 am
by Graeme Robson
Correction!
The owner is John egans from Wales.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:05 am
by The.Dark.One
I havent looked at the link yet because I'm at work, but if it is John Egan's I judged it at the Fishes of Fishes at BAF. I think it got second after all the judges scores were averaged out. V nice fish.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:11 am
by shari2
it is gorgeous. would have loved to see #1!
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:52 am
by Emma Turner
I've seen pics of that
B. histrionica before, it's absolutely STUNNING.
Emma
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:54 am
by Martin Thoene
Aren't the markings strange though?
Martin.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:00 am
by Emma Turner
Yes. I'd like to know the accurate size of that specimen, it looks to be pretty big (using the plug sockets in the background for scale). We have a mature B. histrionica in the display tank at work, which you saw when you were here, and although large, it's markings are nothing like this fish.
Emma
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:44 pm
by The.Dark.One
If I remember from judging it it was about 14 or 15 cm SL?
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:55 pm
by Martin Thoene
That looks about right scaling from the plugs behind the tank.
Martin.