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i am going to swing both ways on this.

in that first picture, the one that graeme copied, the one at the top looks like my rostrata.

the first one i bought was in with yoyos, and looked like an unusually marked one, and grew out to look very different. 2nd one i got looked rostrata like, and was the last one left. it looks quite different too.

then i got 4 juveniles, and a couple looked similar to the histies??? in that picture. as they are growing, they keep changing. i must get round to getting my scuba gear on and scrubbing the algae off the bottom inch of the tank to get better photos.

it would be good to see more photos of these fish as they get bigger. incidently, how big is that yoyo in picture 5? it looks like it has pretty markings

It gets scary when you guys can't agree! Thank goodness I have neither.....

the histrionica/rostrata debate is ongoing since ancient times...

Botia histrionica, I would say.

Emma

3 year i have keep those fish. B. Histrionica i bought. Picture 5 yoyo is over 12cm long. First 4 pic. are juveniles in year 2005 and 2 last picture in last week.

This is a tricky one , I'd say out of the three on the pic the bigger one on the right was a Histrionica , not sure about the others ?

new pic





is this B. rostrata?

I would say so, I have a couple of rostrata with nigh on identical patterns.

yup i agree also, how big are these fish btw.

mick

Did you buy this rostrata at the same time as the others jwp

That is a Rostrata !
I think there might have been some confusion when there are more than one fish in the pic ?


The first pic with the three on it , I would say the two bigger fish are Histrionica ! the smaller fish ?

Smaler is about 8cm long and other in about 9cm.
No I didn't buy B. rostrata in same time whith those two.

in picture 1, i would say its a rostrata on the right.

they are beautifull fish you have. its good to hear about more big yoyos, they are wonderfully marked that sort of size