Rhyacichthys aspro (Loach goby)

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Rhyacichthys aspro (Loach goby)

Post by odyssey » Sat Dec 25, 2010 2:47 am

Hi everyone!

Fish was added to my tank newly recently.
Those seem to come from Taiwan.
It's also distributed over the Japanese most south. But it's rare to reach Japan.

It's fish of a goby family, but an English name is Loache Goby.
It's similar to Homaloptera for certain.

A Japanese name is TSUBASAHAZE and the meaning is wing goby.
They have no suckers.
However, they can fix a body on a rock in the rapids.
They make down force occur from a watercourse by the big pectoral. They seem to fix a body on a rock with that.
A blood worm is a favorite for them.
Somehow they don't seem to do alga grazing.

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Formosania lacustre is one kind of HillStreamLoach which lives in Taiwan likewise.
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Re: Rhyacichthys aspro (Loach goby)

Post by plaalye » Sat Dec 25, 2010 11:21 am

Really cool fish odyssey, thanks! I'd like to see more of the formosania lacustre.

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Re: Rhyacichthys aspro (Loach goby)

Post by odyssey » Sat Dec 25, 2010 10:24 pm

Hi plaalye.

You may already see, but there are a lot of pictures and information in the following thread.
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17525
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Re: Rhyacichthys aspro (Loach goby)

Post by plaalye » Sun Dec 26, 2010 12:46 am

Thanks odyssey. I didn't make the connection between formosiana & crossostoma.

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Re: Rhyacichthys aspro (Loach goby)

Post by piggy4 » Sun Dec 26, 2010 2:08 pm

Beautiful how nature's creatures adapt to their surroundings :) .

Wonderful pics as always !

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Re: Rhyacichthys aspro (Loach goby)

Post by Matt » Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:09 am

Lovely fish Odyssey!

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Re: Rhyacichthys aspro (Loach goby)

Post by wasserscheu » Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:33 am

These are combining my most favorite fish, loaches and gobies, in one "model" - fascinating. Thank you Odyssey for the excellent pictures and describtion.

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Re: Rhyacichthys aspro (Loach goby)

Post by Jim Powers » Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:09 am

I can see where it get's its name. What an interesting looking fish!!
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Re: Rhyacichthys aspro (Loach goby)

Post by odyssey » Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:41 am

Thank you for comments.

The good video clip couldn't be taken yet, but its short one was uploaded to Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEwxPhDXXTo
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