View Full Version : Any loach fans help with an ID?
j_chicago
10-17-2007, 10:02 PM
So I have this loach that a friend unloaded on me, And he's a pain to try to get a pic of, since he's only really out at lights out.
But this was best I could do tonight.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f161/morris14/DSC02522.jpg
Blueiz
10-17-2007, 10:10 PM
http://www.loaches.com/species-index
check this site out..
Lupin
10-17-2007, 10:11 PM
Syncrossus helodes is my best guess.
http://www.loaches.com/species-index/syncrossus-helodes
fishorama
10-18-2007, 8:56 AM
Maybe 1 of the sinibotia, we need a better side pic.
mrfryc
10-18-2007, 12:58 PM
He has the face that my horseface loach has, and like my horseface loach, he only comes out at night. I never really planned on getting the horseface loach, but he was 3" long and only $3 at PetSmart so I took a gamble and he's still alive, just buried 90% of the time.
He has the face that my horseface loach has, and like my horseface loach, he only comes out at night. I never really planned on getting the horseface loach, but he was 3" long and only $3 at PetSmart so I took a gamble and he's still alive, just buried 90% of the time.
He isn't an Acantopsis though. A lot of Botiine loaches have different head and body shapes.
Joergen.Schoppe
10-22-2007, 8:35 AM
Sinibotia longoventralis, but to be 100% sure we need a picture from the side.
Martin Thoene
10-26-2007, 9:08 AM
Difficult to see accurately in that picture but it appears to have vertically oriented oval black spots in the area behind the pectoral fins. That means it's Syncrossus helodes.
http://www.loaches.com/species-index/syncrossus-helodes
Martin.
j_chicago
10-26-2007, 10:08 PM
Yeah, looks like its S. helodes. Looks like I'll be donating to the LFS