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Tinman has Sinibotia robusta on the brain!

sigh........I will find them someday again. My personal Holy Grail
Here fishy, fishy, fishy.....Did'nt Styx write a song about them ?


ughhhh, old debate...did I do that again ? Sorry old timers

Jim, are you saying that 1 robusta can be kept quite happily on its own? it doesnt take much to confuse me

I was talking about PULCHRA
not Robusta.
For some reason everyone seems to be getting confused over that.
I have no experience with robusta so I don't know if they like going it alone or not.

You can keep these Sinibotia sp's easily in larger groups. With the 10 that i keep, i've never witnessed any aggression with each other. I often see them all huddled among each other under some bogwood. I wonder if Ashleigh has a couple of males who can a times find each other a little bit intimidating.

If you can find more Ashleigh, then great but for the time being, loads of shelters and aquarium space should be fine for them.

There is a paper online which seems to have a slight descirption of some Sinibotia sp but it keeps timing out before it will open

Anyway fishbase gave; Color pattern consisting of 7-9 wide bars, not always very distinct; no black longitudinal rows of spots or thin stripes fror Sinibotia superciliaris, nothing for Sinibotia pulchra.

They have their own tank but its a working progress and I want them a little plumper before I return them back to there permentant.

Heading to Emma's next Sat so hopefully will come home with a nice little group, maybe they will get on, maybe they will not... we shall see

Just wish we could get to the bottom of this id business

Ashleigh

We've had up to 60 of them in the stock tanks at any one time and they all squash in together under the bogwood pieces, just as Graeme describes. They can easily jump between 4 tanks on that part of the system (through a small gap under the coverslides) so could get away from the others if they wanted to, but on the whole they choose to pile in together. I know a shop tank situation can be different, but this sort of behaviour still bodes well for when they go into larger tanks.

Emma

Newbies from Emma's have arrived

Fair bit of variation-four along the same lines as each other, one slightly darker and broadly build and more stripes, and one which stands out by far (I had thought he was just having a 'spat' with others in the stock tanks but he still has not coloured up so I assume this is how he is-the tail is more spotted than stripped). My two are still not socialising with the newcomers typical....

Quality is awful-floating tank for two ticks and then into the tank-I have not been well enough to take better pic's yet and Ive become a Mum over night with Cherry barb fry who are seeking refuge in the photo tank they sure do pick the times right

There are 4 like the one below-look a lot like the ones posted up by others before





Darker and broader??



Together



And the 'special one'




These Sinibotia are an interesting lot


Ashleigh

Some gorgeous loaches there Ashleigh!!!!

I'm glad they caught out the ones you wanted. There are some beauties there. I particularly like the one in the 5th & 6th pics - that looks really different.

Emma

Yeah, very Leptobotia like.

Lovely!

Fantastic fish ! superbly conditioned fish !