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I was in the Walmart this morning near one of the sites I have to visit from time to time to pick up a few low carb bars and some half and half and low and behold as I was wasting some time time looking at the fishys I saw the tag for Walmarts fish o' the month which was the "Hong Kong Pleco" aka sewellia lineolata, aka butterfly loach.

You could have knocked me over with a feather and the price was definitely right...$4.84 each!

Get this...the species notes and the care instructions were actually right on the money (with the exception of the pleco thing).....


I think I may have some contaminants in the first set I bought, and I'll post some pics later.....I think a couple may be spotted seweilla and I think one may be something else...


I am just flabbergasted....


Kevin

Oh yessssss.....we definitely need pictures.

Martin.

I also saw a wierd fish they were pawning off as the above mentioned. It looked loach like. It was about 1-3 inches long, about half the diamater of a pencil (and looked like one of those pencils you get when you play minature golf) and had two sets of fins...one near the eyes, one about 1/4 inch from the tale.

I got some pictures on my crappy camera phone, so I'm sure that won't help, but I'll try to post them anyways. It looked like a cammo loach with dark brown patches and dirty white/grey patches. I don't know if it was a loach, but it was definitely not something I've seen before and it was in with the other sewellia lineolata....

Kevin

Kevin....anything like these?



Martin.

grizzlyone wrote:I was in the Walmart this morning near one of the sites I have to visit from time to time to pick up a few low carb bars and some half and half and low and behold as I was wasting some time time looking at the fishys I saw the tag for Walmarts fish o' the month which was the "Hong Kong Pleco" aka sewellia lineolata, aka butterfly loach.

You could have knocked me over with a feather and the price was definitely right...$4.84 each!

Get this...the species notes and the care instructions were actually right on the money (with the exception of the pleco thing).....


I think I may have some contaminants in the first set I bought, and I'll post some pics later.....I think a couple may be spotted seweilla and I think one may be something else...


I am just flabbergasted....


Kevin

Why can't my walmart sell anything nice.. all we have are stupid fiddler crabs.

Martin Thoene wrote:Kevin....anything like these?



Martin.

We are working on the same wavelength Martin. I already went through the index (Great Job, BTW on the pictorial index) and I didn't see anything close.

Unless its not a loach, or something new that doesn't have a pic, I would bet something not-loach <g>.

I was tempted to buy a couple, but I hate getting something that I don't know how to take care of (no care instructions either).

I'll see if the pics turn out decent once my phone battery charges back up and I can find the cable for it.

The patterns were not recurring as far as I remember and it looked like those urban cammos that you see with brown and dirty white, big irregular spots...

here are the wierd one pics:

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4946129

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4946128



Here's the 1st batch.

I'm thinking most of them are spotted, but I don't know what the two in the middle are....


http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4946185

just sitting here, trying to rock my 1y.o. daughter back to sleep(60 mins and still going)....she's teething....I thought I'd do something productive...

grizzlyone wrote:Here's the 1st batch.

I'm thinking most of them are spotted, but I don't know what the two in the middle are....


http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4946185

I don't know about the camera-phone pictures but the left of the middle two looks like a Gastromyzon Ocellatus to me, possibly the right as well though it has a milder saddle-back
http://www.loaches.com/species-index/ga ... -ocellatus

And I'm not sure if the others are Spotted, I'd lean more towards Beaufortia kweichowensis (can't really take credit though, it's called the Hong Kong Plec as a common name...)
http://www.loaches.com/species-index/be ... ichowensis

I can't believe you found these at wal-mart...I feel bad for any fish ending up there. At my wal-mart, there are sometimes more dead fish in the tank than live ones.

Well.....there's no "Hong Kong Plecos" there. Those are Bornean fish.
On the left probably Gastromyzon ctenocephalus.
Gastromyzon ocellatus (probably) at centre with the back saddles. The fish to it's right is difficult to ascertain because of picture clarity. It appears to have a very squared off nose shape. Possibly:

http://www.loaches.com/species-index/ga ... -unknown02

Would have to see better pics.

The other fish look like some kind of Homaloptera, Annamia or Vanmanania species. No way of telling from those pics, but I must check out my local Walmart just in case

Martin.

Hmmm...I must have missed this thread the other day.
It seems as though Walmart is going to be flooding the market with various hillstreams. This could be interesting... or sad...depending on the store.

I think there are 3 walmart/hillstream threads at the moment

Interesting though about the "fish of the month" thing though...there doesn't seem to be alot of standardization though...I've seen about 8 different species all sold as "butterfly pleco"...

I don't usually buy from Walmart (except in rare cases) but it was too good to pass up and they will spend the next month in quarantine and lots of preventive treatment

Cheers,

Kevin

what species did you get?
I'll definately be checking out a few more Walmarts to see what I can find.

This Forum as well as all those threads that Emma starts has drastically increased my interest in these little fisheis. So much so that I want to go on a Walmart expedition in the state of Colorado and rescue them but I can't. I keep my tank at 79-81 deg celcius, the Clowns like this.

Jim:

I'm not sure. There were more species than I've ever seen and they did not look like the seweilla I l already have.

See above where Martin tried to help identitfy from my pic. I've had some fatalities. They are very shy right now as well. I'm picking up a new camera on friday and I'll try to get some pics.

I normally see about 30-50% mortaility rate on Walmart fish....I'm going to be scoping out some more walmarts this weekend.

Kevin