Small hillies

[Emma Turner]

I forgot to mention last week that one of my suppliers was offering some very small hillstream loach specimens for sale on their weekly specials list - Pseudogastromyzon myersi at 1.5cm TL . They must be miniscule, that's smaller than my first batch of Sewellia lineolata fry are now, and I still think of them as tiny!

Emma

[Martin Thoene]

Emma, Jim, LES, et al......go check the "Chinese Sucker Loach" thread on Petfrd.com.

http://www.petfrd.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20537

Interesting.

Martin.

[Jim Powers]

Thanks!
Very interesting. It's good to know that what we have is probably cheni as we had thought. With all the changes in names in the last few years, it is nice NOT to have to change one.
I wouldn't be surprised, however, if myersi has been showing up from time to time, too.

[LES..]

I forgot to mention last week that one of my suppliers was offering some very small hillstream loach specimens for sale on their weekly specials list - Pseudogastromyzon myersi at 1.5cm TL .

Hi Emma,
That does sound very small, the majority of our cheni fry are larger than that, some of them are approaching an inch in length now and i am only just starting to think they might be ready for Garry to collect. I would hazard a guess that these might be captive bred fish, i can't imagine that it would be sustainable to catch fish that size in the wild.

Emma, Jim, LES, et al......go check the "Chinese Sucker Loach" thread on Petfrd.com.

Oh to be able to find that stream and fish like this less than an hour from my home...
Thanks Martin, i'll now go to bed with a headache ;-) after reading all that i have a suspicion that one of our cheni may be a myersi... It would explain a lot he has always been treated as an outsider by the other loaches, we had just assumed he was bottom of the pecking order. Time to break out the macro lens for the camera, smear brine shrimp on the glass and study those (non)scaly behinds.

LES..

p.s. today did not go to plan, i now aim to hit the fish shop tomorrow and i just hope those "contaminants" are still there...

[Emma Turner]

That does sound very small, the majority of our cheni fry are larger than that, some of them are approaching an inch in length now and i am only just starting to think they might be ready for Garry to collect. I would hazard a guess that these might be captive bred fish, i can't imagine that it would be sustainable to catch fish that size in the wild.

I would have thought so too, but with quantities of 400 per box, I'm not so sure. Someone would really have to have a dedicated myersi/cheni production facility on the go!

Good luck with your loach shopping tomorrow, LES..

Emma