Botia I Couldn't Resist.

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Botia I Couldn't Resist.

Post by Martin Thoene » Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:10 pm

But what is it?

Appears to be called SOOO-GOOG or GOOG-SOOO

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It was in a tank by itself with some Rift-Lake cichlids and I got it for the same price as regular Yoyos. It's still floating in the bag and faded. In the tank at the shop the markings were very dark. Far more than normal Yoyos. It's about 1.75" SL.

I picked up 10 nice fat and healthy Cherry Barbs too. This guy's going in with them but eventually it'll end up in the Clown tank. I'm wondering if it might end up turning out like the one that Emma had reserved for Helen. Right now it looks like a Yoyo/Kubotai combo. Should be interesting to watch the development.

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Post by Ashleigh » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:03 pm

Beautiful fish, be interesting what he/she will indeed turn out like :D

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Post by mikev » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:32 pm

Arrgh...a nice Yoyo indeed. No wonder resistance was hopeless...:D
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Post by tariesindanrie » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:39 pm

Nice find...I wouldn't have resisted that one either...but I did resist some baby horse-faces today. Probably kick myself later :roll:

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Post by Whitey_MacLeod » Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:14 pm

Wow, very cool fish 8)
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Post by newshound » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:07 pm

OMG
you got that out of my tank!
I got one of those 3 months ago.
Mine was in a batch of yo yos
drain your pool!
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Post by Martin Thoene » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:24 pm

Any chance of pics newshound? It would be interesting to compare others like this. I'm betting TheDarkOne is going to be all over this :wink:

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Post by Mike Ophir » Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:39 am

Hmm, looks like a slightly reticulated B. almorhae to me. Nice find, Martin!

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Post by Graeme Robson » Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:21 pm

Ahh! Given the Botia almorhae pattern and the charmed looks of a Botia rostrata (head wise), i would predict the possibility of a juvenile Botia birdi.
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Post by Martin Thoene » Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:29 pm

Yeah....that is what I was thinking Image

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Post by Blue » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:20 pm

Graeme Robson wrote:Ahh! Given the Botia almorhae pattern and the charmed looks of a Botia rostrata (head wise), i would predict the possibility of a juvenile Botia birdi.
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Post by Diana » Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:41 am

I have one Yoyo that I call 'the dyslexic Yoyo' because the pattern is so far out of the norm for Yoyos. This post has raised the possibility that my 'dyslexic Yoyo' might be some other species, mixed up with Yoyos.
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Post by sophie » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:41 am

I'm pretty sure that's what my yoyos look like? I can see what you mean about the head, but....
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Post by sophie » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:47 am

actually, there's something not-yoyo as well about the body-shape, too, isn't there?

hrrrrrm...
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Post by helen nightingale » Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:10 am

so how is it behaving? is it cocky enough for a yoyo?

will you give us more photos of it settled in please?
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