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Post by Martin Thoene » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:50 am

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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.

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Caption: Barbatula toni, from "Raising Korean Fish"
Credit: Won-Kyu Lee
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Post by Martin Thoene » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:56 am

NAME CHANGE Was Nemacheilus toni.

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Post by shari2 » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:16 pm

Could you please translate this into layman's terms?
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Spawns once a year in low productivity streams, but exhibits multiple spawning within a season in high productivity environments.
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Post by Martin Thoene » Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:15 pm

Spawns once a year in low productivity streams, but exhibits multiple spawning within a season in high productivity environments.
Yoda translation: Much eating not available, will breed but once, much eating to be had, will breed much.

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.

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Post by Jim Powers » Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:38 pm

Ah...strong the farce is in this one. :wink:
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Post by Graeme Robson » Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:27 pm

I understood it perfectly!



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Post by shari2 » Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:40 pm

Shall we perpetuate the farce, or translate the farce for the paduwans who so close to the farce are not? 8)
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Post by Graeme Robson » Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:46 pm

Lets farce it! Some paduwans dont know the farce all to well.
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Post by Martin Thoene » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:07 pm

Thinking I am that the revisions made by myself may clearer make this text a reader for to understand.

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