Schistura vinciguerrae

[The-Lion]

Hi all, I've been keeping a couple of these for a few months now, the largest of which is around the two inch mark give or take a bit & has a hint of red in it's tail but no where near as bright as the specimen pictured in the species index.
Should i worry about the dullness of the tail or does the colour come with maturity?

[Graeme Robson]

Hi The-Lion. The distribution of these is wide. >> Irrawaddy and Salween basins in Myanmar, Irrawaddy basin in China. Possibly the Salween basin in Yunnan, China.

I wouldn't worry about the colouration in the caudal fin.

[The-Lion]

Sorry if i am being dim, are you saying colour varies from region to region? As ever i want my fish to be as content as possible, I'm still relatively new to the hobby so decoding colours is all going towards my learning.

[Martin Thoene]

That's what he means. Many loaches that are spread over wide areas in different river-systems have regional variation due to genetical seperation of the breeding communities.

Some can look like completely different species in certain cases.

Martin.

[Graeme Robson]

They are even reported to come from India. You have just reminded me that one of my lfs have some of these in. Hmm.....tempting!