Acanthopsoides ID, TDO your needed mate.

mickthefish · Post by **mickthefish** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:32 am

I hunt for this genus everywhere i go, i have A molobrion for sure but this fish is different in pattern to them, so anyone with loads of books could you please spend a bit of time to find what species this is or is it just a well patterned molobrion.
here's a few pics of it.

thanks in advance.
mick

The.Dark.One · Post by **The.Dark.One** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:36 pm

According to Kottelat A. molobrion is differentiated from A. robertsi by not having a posteriorly pointed V shaped bar in the caudal, and yours doesnt have this either. It doesnt look like a A. delphax, A. gracilentus, A. gracilis, A. hapalias, or A. namromensis.

Therefore I would go for A. molobrion, although they are all quite similar!

mickthefish · Post by **mickthefish** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:05 pm

cheers steve mate.

mick

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:33 pm

I have some new tiny Acantopsis type loaches to ID. Graeme saw them when he last visited, but they had only been in for 3 days then. Unfortunately, they came in very skinny so we are working on getting a bit of weight on them. Will put up some pics soon. I think they look similar to yours, Mick, but from some very crap pictures I took on arrival, they have far less dorsal fin rays.

Emma

mickthefish · Post by **mickthefish** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:59 am

like this one Em, tell you what it's a bugger trying to put some weight on them, mine eat for fun but stay very similar to this pic.

mick

Cup · Post by **Cup** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:38 pm

Noiiiiice.

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