urgent ident required

[raving_wayne]

i have just been watching in my main tank and i have noticed that one of my loaches is attacking my neons and corys, the little swine has chewed the fins on 4 of my corys and its defo him as i have seen him doing it, i was sold this loach as a zebra loach but after looking at the images available im not so sure its a zebra. looks like a small tiger of some form















please please help

Rave

[raecarrow]

Definately NOT a Striata. Striatas are shorter and higher in body and their dorsal fin is not colored like that. Looks like some sort of tiger to me. Probably needs to be in a Grrr... tank

[mickthefish]

you have one of the grrrs bud, it's either hymenophysa or reversa.
my guess is the hymenophysa because of the black mark at the peak of the dorsal.

mick

[Emma Turner]

That's Syncrossus hymenophysa, a member of the aggressive tiger loach group: http://www.loaches.com/species-index/sy ... ymenophysa.

Emma

[raving_wayne]

darn grrrrrr i wish shops would correctly mark fish, now my problem is i dont have a grr tank for loaches and i dont think he will last to long in my malawi tank with my convicts, if there is anyone local to the kent UK area that has room for him he is going free but untill then he is going in my Q tank as its empty at present

thanks for the ident i now gonna fish him out

Rave

[Tinman]

That's a beauty. Too bad , I wish I could get those here. I love them grrrrs........

[raving_wayne]

if ya was closer you could havee had him lol, he defo had a big issue in the tank as since hes been removed every loack in my tank looks relaxed even my big clown as coloured back up and isnt shy of coming out the tubes now