Botia Striata - Update

The forum for the very best information on loaches of all types. Come learn from our membership's vast experience!

Moderator: LoachForumModerators

Post Reply
User avatar
Mad Duff
Posts: 2821
Joined: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:58 am
Location: Middlesbrough, UK
Contact:
Contact Mad Duff

Botia Striata - Update

Post by Mad Duff »

Today I managed to get a couple of decent photos of the strangely marked Botia Striata I recently purchased, it has settled in well with the other 6 but it does stand out from the crowd :lol:
Image
Image
Image

:D
Image

Pardon my honesty - I am a Northerner

14 loach species bred, which will be next?
Top
User avatar
sophie
Posts: 1883
Joined: Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:15 am
Location: birmingham. definitely not Alabama!

Post by sophie »

what an interesting fish! reticuloyoyo mixed with striata; fantastic.
you're a lucky man.
sophie.
there is no them
there is only us

http://www.duckduckgoosestuff.co.uk
Top
User avatar
Emma Turner
Posts: 8901
Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:07 pm
Location: Peterborough, UK
Contact:
Contact Emma Turner

Post by Emma Turner »

Great pics, Mark. :D Certainly a very uniquely patterned B. striata you have there. Excellent stuff!

Emma
Image
East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
Image
Top
User avatar
Barracuda518
Posts: 609
Joined: Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:24 pm
Location: Alabama, USA

Post by Barracuda518 »

That fish has very cool markings. Nice find 8)
Top
User avatar
Jim Powers
Posts: 5208
Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:15 pm
Location: Bloomington, Indiana

Post by Jim Powers »

:shock: Very cool!!
You sure that fish didn't come from the Czech Republic? :wink:
Image
Top
wasserscheu
Posts: 995
Joined: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:29 am
Location: Munich

Post by wasserscheu »

... even though I schould be doing other things right now, .... was looking at them a looooong time, wondering striatas? But I think they are - what I know: they are fascinating
Top
User avatar
Mad Duff
Posts: 2821
Joined: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:58 am
Location: Middlesbrough, UK
Contact:
Contact Mad Duff

Post by Mad Duff »

Thanks for all the comments :) , I have been assured that they were shipped direct from an Asian wholesaler/distributor. That one and the other that I got with it were among the 50 Botia Striata that were ordered, I am hoping to be informed about any more unusually marked fish when the next lot come in :)
Image

Pardon my honesty - I am a Northerner

14 loach species bred, which will be next?
Top
User avatar
angelfish83
Posts: 1560
Joined: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:53 pm
Location: none
Contact:
Contact angelfish83

Post by angelfish83 »

Jim Powers wrote::shock: Very cool!!
You sure that fish didn't come from the Czech Republic? :wink:
haaaa haaa haaa :roll:

Those loaches were friggin $$$ too, and they weren't the right species... I was so dissappointed :(
Top
User avatar
Jim Powers
Posts: 5208
Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:15 pm
Location: Bloomington, Indiana

Post by Jim Powers »

anglefish83 wrote:
Those loaches were friggin $$$ too, and they weren't the right species... I was so dissappointed
That's got to be frustrating after looking for them for so long. Keep looking, REAL histrionica are bound to turn up eventually.
Image
Top
User avatar
Graeme Robson
Posts: 9096
Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:34 am
Location: Peterborough, UK
Contact:
Contact Graeme Robson

Post by Graeme Robson »

Excellent markings!!

Lovely Loach! 8)
Image
Top
User avatar
mikev
Posts: 3103
Joined: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:06 pm
Location: NY

Post by mikev »

Great fish!

Just how rare are these markings? Did anyone ever see it before?
Top
User avatar
Emma Turner
Posts: 8901
Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:07 pm
Location: Peterborough, UK
Contact:
Contact Emma Turner

Post by Emma Turner »

Helen also has a unusually marked specimen, and I have to say I myself have only ever come across 2 or 3 in all the hundreds I must have imported over the years. That might not mean all that much though, as it could be down to luck of the draw. I see a lot of pattern variation in clowns, histrionica, rostrata etc etc (and on one occasion a dario) but rarely in B. striata.
Be interested to hear what others have to say about this.

Emma
Image
East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
Image
Top
User avatar
mikev
Posts: 3103
Joined: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:06 pm
Location: NY

Post by mikev »

Interesting...

There are a couple of strangely patterned 2" Dario's in a store around here. Not as good as your strange pattern, but still: a semicircle, and one with two stripes forming an "X".

I'll try to make pictures if they are still there next time.

(Actually, I am very tempted. Unfortunately, most fish from this store dies on me: their fish *always* brings ich, darios are suspiciously skinny, and probably some other disease too....and the only way to quarantine them is with Confuzona's....seems just a little risky...)
Top
User avatar
helen nightingale
Posts: 4717
Joined: Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:23 am
Location: London, UK

Post by helen nightingale »

thats a lovely fish Mark. im not surprised iy stands out :D

i wonder what the outcome would be like if yours and mine were to breed? anyone know how to do home aquarium artificial insemination?
Top
User avatar
Joemid
Posts: 8
Joined: Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:35 am
Location: Portland, OR, USA

Post by Joemid »

These are really nice. I have seen some interestingly-patterned striata in my neighborhood but nothing as asymmetrically-jaguar patterned as this.
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Loach Forum”