Chinese loaches

Mad Duff · Post by **Mad Duff** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:56 pm

I got this picture sent to me today by Kamphol, it shows a selection of Chinese loaches:

I especially like 10, 11 & 12

janma · Post by **janma** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:42 pm

We have similar taste, 11 & 12 are my favorites. 1 & 2 looks huge, did he give you the sizes?

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:50 pm

Hi Mark,

could you ask him about no. 13 please? They looks very similar to this:

they should be also from china. Maybe he has a name for the guys.

Thanks,
Thomas

Matthew · Post by **Matthew** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:55 pm

I think I will have to go with 8,10,12 as my favorites! A Schistura sp. I currently have that I have been unable to identify has a spotted pattern similar to #10, unfortunatley I have been unable to get a clear picture yet.

Mad Duff · Post by **Mad Duff** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:08 pm

Number 2 is Leptobotia elongata which can reach 20"+, number 1 could be juvenile L. elongata

Kamphol told me that he wasnt sure about names on these but I will ask.

3 & 4 could be Parabotia
5 ?
6 Sinibotia robusta
7 Sinibotia pulchra
8 & 9 possibly Leptobotia species
10 could be a variant of Leptobotia tientaienensis
11 possible Traccatichtys taeniatus
12 something similar to Paracobitis variegatus
13 ?
14 ?

Mike Ophir · Post by **Mike Ophir** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:13 pm

10 is absolutely phenomenal, phenomenal! Did he say if its a described species or color morph, etc? 14 looks like a botiid I had seen years ago at Uncle Ned's in MA.

Mike

mickthefish · Post by **mickthefish** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:26 pm

i've seen this poster at BAS in their office, but i'm sure insteadof numbers it had names, next time i'm there i'll ask to see it and take a pic of the poster.

mick

Mad Duff · Post by **Mad Duff** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:32 pm

Yeah its the same one that was sent to Neil as well MickI remember him showing us it when I got the first batch of big kub's, I put the numbers on myself.

Kamphol hasnt been able to give me any details yet.

mickthefish · Post by **mickthefish** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:52 pm

trouble is mate will they be allowed in, ( i doubt it ) by you know who DEFRA, the prats.

mick

Mad Duff · Post by **Mad Duff** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:28 pm

You never know Mick

lf11casey · Post by **lf11casey** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:32 pm

I'll take 8,10 and 13. 10 is just spectacular.

mickthefish · Post by **mickthefish** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:56 pm

i ceertainly hope so Mark, if any of us bought them so they think we be callous enough to doss them out in the waterways.
mind knowing the mentality of those t---s, they think we would.

mick

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:51 am

Droooooooool.

Keith Wolcott · Post by **Keith Wolcott** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:47 am

I really like #11.

mickthefish · Post by **mickthefish** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:37 am

ive seen the Traccatichthys pulcher a few times in a local shop but they always looked drab in the tank.
but the fish in the pic has'nt got the black markings on the first few rays of the dorsal that i've seen in the fish at the shop.

mick

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