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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.












Formosania lacustre is one kind of HillStreamLoach which lives in Taiwan likewise.

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

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

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

Beautiful how nature's creatures adapt to their surroundings .

Wonderful pics as always !

Lovely fish Odyssey!

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

A good New Year to everybody

I can see where it get's its name. What an interesting looking fish!!

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