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Well some of these lovely Yunnanilus brevis will be going home with Graeme on Friday.:D
There aren't too many photographs of these loaches around, so I took a few last week before they go to their new home.

First, a (crappy) old picture of what they looked like a few months back when acquired as juveniles, for comparison....

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And this is what they look like now....

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Fab-luss! Hope you're charging the ole b*gger for bed, board, feeding up into awesome looking fishes an' all that? Cute as a bug in a rug those guys Emma!

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Damn! Those would do my brook tank. Nice fish, Emma - and Graeme!
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Those sure cute little guys.
I wonder, Emma, if your customers know just how lucky they are to have someone like you around that gives all these cool fish such tender loving care.
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Mark in Vancouver wrote:Damn! Those would do my brook tank.
Thats mainly my intentions, Mark. I have three 40gal brook/river set-ups all ready to go. The loaches i will be mainly purchasing are for these.

Wow! Those are extremely good looking chaps, Emma. I'm really looking forward to owning these and many other lovely specimens. :D

Superb! 8)
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I've heard they're in LA, so we can all hope. I think they're really cute.

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I have 5 of them too. Cute fish that tend to stay in the midwater. I have also observed that they prefer to seek shelter among the plants (I have java moss and java fern in the tank) during lazy periods.

A different kind of loachy character altogether :)
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Thank you for all your comments, I'm glad you all liked them! :D

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Just to continue the discussion on them, how do we sex them?
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avant wrote:Just to continue the discussion on them, how do we sex them?
When the females get quite heavy with roe.
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Also, there were some comments on the species index from Kamphol back in 2003, where he stated that he thought there might be sexual dimorphism in this species with the males having redder tails and females having more defined body spotting. Don't know if this was looked into further?

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Graeme, I will definitely be happy if I can get to see the roe! :P

Emma, i have 5 of them currently, still juvenile. 2 of them have an obvious lateral line across their sides, while the other 3 only have scattered spots. I was just wondering what will be the reason for this distinct difference. I have them for over a month already.

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Heheh yeah Daryl :wink:

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Good luck with yours! Mine are still too young. But I'll be observing :)
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A little update on eating habits. The ones i purchased from Emma's store are incredibly eager on eating some veg between Blood's...etc. I've witnessed them basically 'ripping' sections from my plants with happiness! They have often picked at cucumbers, but the 'live' source seems more to their needs. Great entertainment to see them 'twist' a chunk off. Hovering for greens eh!

I'll try for some pictures soon.
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