Barbatula toni Profile*x
Moderator: LoachForumModerators
- Martin Thoene
- Posts: 11186
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:38 am
- Location: Toronto.....Actually, I've been on LOL since September 1998
Barbatula toni Profile*x
*work in progress*
Scientific name: Barbatula toni (Dybowski, 1869)
Common name: Siberian Stone Loach
Synonyms: Cobitis toni, Nemacheilus toni
Distribution: Korea, China, Siberia, Japan
Sexual Dimorphism: Females are generally larger with a rounder abdomen.
Maximum size: 6.5 inches (16cm)
Similar to: Barbatula barbatula.
Care: The aquarium should have a decent flow rate and be well-oxygenated. A substrate of fine sand to allow digging and lots of smooth rounded pebbles and numerous shelters such as bogwood and slate.
Feeding: Most foods accepted. Commercial sinking formulations and bottom-dwelling live-foods. Frozen foods such as Bloodworm, Brine shrimp, Daphnia.
Water parameters: pH: 6.0-7.5 Hardness: Soft-medium Max dh: 12
Temperature: 57.2ºF to 64.4ºF (14-18°C) Colder in Winter
Breeding: None reported in aquarium. Reported as spawning once a year in streams with low food production, but exhibits multiple spawning within a season if food productivity is high in a particular stream. Eggs are a dull white and laid among stones and water plants.
Notes: Regarded by many scientists as being a sub-species of Barbatula barbatula, or possibly the same species. Lives in multiple rivers and lakes throughout range. Known to eat benthic crustaceans, molluscs, worms, fish eggs and fry in the wild.
Sensitive to pollution and low oxygen levels, therefore, its presence in a river can be taken as an indication of good water quality. Not really suitable as an aquarium inhabitant in a domestic situation because of low temperature requirements.
Caption: Barbatula toni, from "Raising Korean Fish"
Credit: Won-Kyu Lee
Scientific name: Barbatula toni (Dybowski, 1869)
Common name: Siberian Stone Loach
Synonyms: Cobitis toni, Nemacheilus toni
Distribution: Korea, China, Siberia, Japan
Sexual Dimorphism: Females are generally larger with a rounder abdomen.
Maximum size: 6.5 inches (16cm)
Similar to: Barbatula barbatula.
Care: The aquarium should have a decent flow rate and be well-oxygenated. A substrate of fine sand to allow digging and lots of smooth rounded pebbles and numerous shelters such as bogwood and slate.
Feeding: Most foods accepted. Commercial sinking formulations and bottom-dwelling live-foods. Frozen foods such as Bloodworm, Brine shrimp, Daphnia.
Water parameters: pH: 6.0-7.5 Hardness: Soft-medium Max dh: 12
Temperature: 57.2ºF to 64.4ºF (14-18°C) Colder in Winter
Breeding: None reported in aquarium. Reported as spawning once a year in streams with low food production, but exhibits multiple spawning within a season if food productivity is high in a particular stream. Eggs are a dull white and laid among stones and water plants.
Notes: Regarded by many scientists as being a sub-species of Barbatula barbatula, or possibly the same species. Lives in multiple rivers and lakes throughout range. Known to eat benthic crustaceans, molluscs, worms, fish eggs and fry in the wild.
Sensitive to pollution and low oxygen levels, therefore, its presence in a river can be taken as an indication of good water quality. Not really suitable as an aquarium inhabitant in a domestic situation because of low temperature requirements.
Caption: Barbatula toni, from "Raising Korean Fish"
Credit: Won-Kyu Lee
Last edited by Martin Thoene on Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- Martin Thoene
- Posts: 11186
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:38 am
- Location: Toronto.....Actually, I've been on LOL since September 1998
Could you please translate this into layman's terms?
thank you...
thank you...
Spawns once a year in low productivity streams, but exhibits multiple spawning within a season in high productivity environments.
books. gotta love em!
http://www.Apaperbackexchange.com
http://www.Apaperbackexchange.com
- Martin Thoene
- Posts: 11186
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:38 am
- Location: Toronto.....Actually, I've been on LOL since September 1998
Yoda translation: Much eating not available, will breed but once, much eating to be had, will breed much.Spawns once a year in low productivity streams, but exhibits multiple spawning within a season in high productivity environments.
My translation: What I think it means (paste from Fishbase) is that in a stream where there is a low productivity of foodstuffs, the fish breed once a year. In a stream with a productive food chain the fish will breed several times throughout a (non-defined) breeding season. Species like Cobitis taenia for instance, are what they call fractional spawners. the female produces multiple small batches of eggs through a longer breeding season.
Martin.
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
- Jim Powers
- Posts: 5208
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:15 pm
- Location: Bloomington, Indiana
- Graeme Robson
- Posts: 9096
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:34 am
- Location: Peterborough, UK
- Contact:
Shall we perpetuate the farce, or translate the farce for the paduwans who so close to the farce are not?
books. gotta love em!
http://www.Apaperbackexchange.com
http://www.Apaperbackexchange.com
- Graeme Robson
- Posts: 9096
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:34 am
- Location: Peterborough, UK
- Contact:
- Martin Thoene
- Posts: 11186
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:38 am
- Location: Toronto.....Actually, I've been on LOL since September 1998
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests