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Botia I Couldn't Resist.
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:10 pm
by Martin Thoene
But what is it?
Appears to be called SOOO-GOOG or GOOG-SOOO
It was in a tank by itself with some Rift-Lake cichlids and I got it for the same price as regular Yoyos. It's still floating in the bag and faded. In the tank at the shop the markings were very dark. Far more than normal Yoyos. It's about 1.75" SL.
I picked up 10 nice fat and healthy Cherry Barbs too. This guy's going in with them but eventually it'll end up in the Clown tank. I'm wondering if it might end up turning out like the one that Emma had reserved for Helen. Right now it looks like a Yoyo/Kubotai combo. Should be interesting to watch the development.
Martin.
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:03 pm
by Ashleigh
Beautiful fish, be interesting what he/she will indeed turn out like
Ashleigh
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:32 pm
by mikev
Arrgh...a nice Yoyo indeed. No wonder resistance was hopeless...
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:39 pm
by tariesindanrie
Nice find...I wouldn't have resisted that one either...but I did resist some baby horse-faces today. Probably kick myself later
Kate
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:14 pm
by Whitey_MacLeod
Wow, very cool fish
Keep us updated
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:07 pm
by newshound
OMG
you got that out of my tank!
I got one of those 3 months ago.
Mine was in a batch of yo yos
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:24 pm
by Martin Thoene
Any chance of pics newshound? It would be interesting to compare others like this. I'm betting TheDarkOne is going to be all over this
Martin.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:39 am
by Mike Ophir
Hmm, looks like a slightly reticulated B. almorhae to me. Nice find, Martin!
Mike
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:21 pm
by Graeme Robson
Ahh! Given the Botia almorhae pattern and the charmed looks of a Botia rostrata (head wise), i would predict the possibility of a juvenile Botia birdi.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:29 pm
by Martin Thoene
Yeah....that
is what I was thinking
Martin.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:20 pm
by Blue
Graeme Robson wrote:Ahh! Given the Botia almorhae pattern and the charmed looks of a Botia rostrata (head wise), i would predict the possibility of a juvenile Botia birdi.
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:41 am
by Diana
I have one Yoyo that I call 'the dyslexic Yoyo' because the pattern is so far out of the norm for Yoyos. This post has raised the possibility that my 'dyslexic Yoyo' might be some other species, mixed up with Yoyos.
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:41 am
by sophie
I'm pretty sure that's what my yoyos look like? I can see what you mean about the head, but....
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:47 am
by sophie
actually, there's something not-yoyo as well about the body-shape, too, isn't there?
hrrrrrm...
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:10 am
by helen nightingale
so how is it behaving? is it cocky enough for a yoyo?
will you give us more photos of it settled in please?