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Martin Thoene wrote:Hmmmm...interesting. I'm not quite sure what you've got there.

Martin.

I'll try to catch the bottom view (but unlike the others, he prefers stones or the ground). I *thought* his mouth was Beaufortian. But behavior and colors are quite different.

I would like to see any angle you can get actually Mike. It looks a bit "taller" than Beaufortia in those pictures. Might be the angle or something.

Martin.

I'll get more pictures, when he moves (has been sloooly eating a shrimp pellet for an hour). Proportions and behavior do look more like Cheni's to (ignorant) me, but the dorsal does not have the red border.

Do you happen to have an image of a Beaufortia with the raised dorsal?

That's an interesting looking fish. It does look taller and a little more cylindrical than the standard beaufortia. Maybe another beaufortia or something. Doesn't look like a sinogastromyzon, though.

TY! I think we can ID him easily: SpE, what else?

A couple more views...





Actual dimensions: 1.75" length, 0.3in height.



Large scale image (click on to see):



Quite obviously this one knows the utility of flat round stones....

The bottom view.---very similar to the others, but this guy has much more fin shading visible from the bottom.

Note to Jim:

NOX Ich' active ingredients are Sodium Chloride and Malachite Green. The med I used is the same, plus Acriflavine, which is probably the least dangerous of the three. So use of Nox likely would have made no difference.

That's interesting. I never really paid that much attention to the ingredients (which I should have ) and haven't had to use it a long time.
Thanks for the info.

You are very welcome.

IMHO, this simply adds to the fact that we all are using the same meds which are generally suitable and work perfectly once we know how to use them -- that is, except for some extreme cases.

In light of the current negative developments, I'm seriously looking at ingredients and alternative approaches outside of the standard drug cocktail.

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Incidentally, the fellow above restored his normal colors when I was back. The only way to know who he was was to see who is eating all the time. Now, he moved to a red stone and became green again. Funny stuff.

Mike, I did a number on your picture. Makes things easier to define.



Still think it's some sort of Beaufortia.

Oh...and here's a dorsal raised pic.....



Martin.

did a number on your picture == ?????

mikev wrote:did a number on your picture == ?????

Compare it to your original pic. Changed contrast, saturation, tone, and filtered and sharpened.

Martin.

Got you... Thank you very much; it will be printed and placed on the wall here.

It is still quite likely that he is the same sp. as the rest; it is just that somehow he adjusted instantly unlike the rest. We'll see in a few days.

I vote for a beaufortia species, too.

All right, let it be Beaufortia, I asked it and heard no objections. Thanks a lot for the ID.