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- Emma Turner
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Congratulations, Mike, you sound so excited! With the 5" specimens at the shop (some of which went home with Mad Duff & Graeme) we have all seen marked sexual dimorphism in that the males have a much larger head with fleshier lips. Females seem to have a more rounded snout. I have seen colourful specimens of both sexes.
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Thanks for the comments guys and gals. I really am enjoying them...they are such an active fish. They are constantly out and about, doing the loachy dance and shoaling around the whole aquarium. They seem quite placid as others had reported and in return, the other loach inhabitants do not seem to be bothering them either. Their color patterning is quite striking. How does their appearance change as they grow? The group I have now are 4 inches long on average....I am really happy that an opportunity came along to get some. Many thanks go to Frank for looking for some for me.
Will keep you updated on how they develop. Is this really the first shipment of them to the USA?
Mike
Will keep you updated on how they develop. Is this really the first shipment of them to the USA?
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- Emma Turner
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Frank received a shipment in May 2007, about a month after we received the first UK import if I remember rightly. This is only the second batch that has been collected for the aquarium trade though.Mike Ophir wrote:Is this really the first shipment of them to the USA?
Mike
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Hi Mike. Glad you liked the fish. This is not the first time I've had them. I got them about a year ago, and then they disappeared from the import lists. Now they are back, and at a much more reasonable price.Mike Ophir wrote:Will keep you updated on how they develop. Is this really the first shipment of them to the USA? Mike
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Lovely looking fish Mike
Like Emma said the key to sexing them seems to be the shape of the face males have longer faces with bigger lips while females are more rounded, also like Emma I have seen colour variations among my males and females, I have come to the conclusion that when they go paler its their version of greying out in clowns or going totally silver in sids.
I have 4 large Histrionicas in with my emperors and they get on really well and more or less permanently shoal together.
Like Emma said the key to sexing them seems to be the shape of the face males have longer faces with bigger lips while females are more rounded, also like Emma I have seen colour variations among my males and females, I have come to the conclusion that when they go paler its their version of greying out in clowns or going totally silver in sids.
I have 4 large Histrionicas in with my emperors and they get on really well and more or less permanently shoal together.
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