Leptobotia taeniops Profile*x

[Martin Thoene]

*work in progress*

Scientific name: Leptobotia taeniops (Suavage, 1878)

Common name: Chinese Loach

Synonyms: Cobitis cha-ny, Leptobotia taeniaps (mis-spelling), Parabotia taeniops, Botia purpurea, Leptobotia purpurea.

Distribution: China.

Sexual Dimorphism: Not known.

Maximum size: Not known.

Similar to: Other Leptobotia

Care: This family of fish are sub-tropical and live in fast to medium flow streams throughout China. They therefore appreciate current in their aquarium, good aeration and filtration.

Feeding: Easy to feed. Eagerly accepts all proprietary aquarium foods. Needs bulkier foods as it grows.

Water parameters: pH: 7.0- 8.0 . Hardness: Medium . Max dh:

Temperature: 68ºF to 75ºF (20-23.8°C)

Breeding: Not bred in aquaria.

Notes: Most of this family like to hide under rocks, so their aquarium should be furnished with lots of large pebbles and flat pieces of slate or other inert rock to provide multiple places for the fish to hide and provide security.

Leptobotia generally get quite large and have large mouths. they should therefore be kept with suitably sized fish as small fish may be eaten. Otherwize peaceful.

This specimen came in as a contaminant with a batch of Sinobotia pulchra.


Caption: Leptobotia taeniops
Credit: Ken Childs

[shari2]

question--is it taeniOps or taeniAps? In our list it is with an A...

nevermind. I get it. It's 'O', right? I'll fix it...

[Martin Thoene]

You will note that in my list it also had an a, but when I discovered that this is a common mis-spelling of the name during researching the profile, I in fact altered the name in Cyan and put a note beside it. I think you made your list version before I changed the spelling.

Martin.

[Mark in Vancouver]

I moved this thread as a test. It's easy once you're in. I bet it's not ready to be moved yet, and we'll want to remove the subsequent notes? Great site dynamics, JS.

[Martin Thoene]

Nah...it's pretty much ready Mark. I did find something unitalicized that had been missed before though

Martin.

[shafer]

Maybe we're thinking of something different here... I figured that we'd move threads to this forum after we've copied the text and images over to the new website. Mark, did you already make this page on the community site? I can't find it anywhere...

We don't necessarily need to move over finished pages, since we can certainly edit things on the new site. But maybe it would make more sense from an organizational standpoint to only move over finished pages?

[Mark in Vancouver]

No - sorry, I did not copy this to the new site. We should probably delete it and wait until we (I) know how it works.

[Martin Thoene]

I did though!

Martin.

[Mark in Vancouver]

Then you have to take it out of the descriptions, Herr Doktor!

[Martin Thoene]

It is out of the Species Descriptions Forum....you're looking at a shadow entry because I forgot to check the box wnen I moved it. Did that with something else (forget what) and decided to eradicate the shadow. If you do that you lose the original also, so I left these few files here on that list ....they're all done.

They're a different colour....it's a clue

Martin.