Wow, your loaches are huge, I really like them but their size is too much for me, and it is a shame that the vast majority of people don't bother to offer them a tank to suit them. Thanks for the links, the identification section is very helpful.
Calling the loach specialists
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Check out these other LOL sites Botia rostrata Image Search — Loaches Online look hard at the semi-adult & Botia kubotai - Development of Markings During Growth — Loaches Online
Lalo, again, what size is your mystery loach? Your first pic showed orange-y fins & yellowish background. That could be a trick of lighting or camera...I don't know...
Sprinkle is in the UK & they can get so called "czech bred " loaches that are often hybrids. We in the new world are much less likely to see them, thank goodness!
I really think you should join loachfantics FB group & see if some of the real experts know, not just us well meaning guessers
but you'll get those too there. Post up all your pics & its size too. & keep in mind it's the holidays for many & it may take some time...
Lalo, again, what size is your mystery loach? Your first pic showed orange-y fins & yellowish background. That could be a trick of lighting or camera...I don't know...
Sprinkle is in the UK & they can get so called "czech bred " loaches that are often hybrids. We in the new world are much less likely to see them, thank goodness!
I really think you should join loachfantics FB group & see if some of the real experts know, not just us well meaning guessers
but you'll get those too there. Post up all your pics & its size too. & keep in mind it's the holidays for many & it may take some time...I regret not having answered the size of the loach previously, she is very close to 2.5 ", only a few millimeters less than that. I have sent my request to the group that you suggest but I am still not accepted, it must be for the reasons you mentionCheck out these other LOL sites Botia rostrata Image Search — Loaches Online look hard at the semi-adult & Botia kubotai - Development of Markings During Growth — Loaches Online
Lalo, again, what size is your mystery loach? Your first pic showed orange-y fins & yellowish background. That could be a trick of lighting or camera...I don't know...
Sprinkle is in the UK & they can get so called "czech bred " loaches that are often hybrids. We in the new world are much less likely to see them, thank goodness!
I really think you should join loachfantics FB group & see if some of the real experts know, not just us well meaning guessers
, so I will wait, the important thing about all this is that this loach is doing very well, it has not had problems with my valued corydoras, they are my treasure, I just removed a Geophagus 'red tapajos' because it messed with my tiny Corydoras adolfoi, but my loach she's a model citizen, it's hard to get good photos of her, but here's another one, in the tank light, she's a subtle cream color.
LOL has 4 pages of kubotai pictures. From your most recent pic I would almost be willing to bet $$$ to donuts it is that.
Check out this pic https://www.loaches.com/species-index/photos/b/botia_kubotai_07.jpg/image_medium
Check out the some of the rest. There is a degree of variability in this species and I think your fish is clearly withing the range you will see.
3 pages of kubotai pics
It is the tiny dots inside the black markings that does it for me.
And here is the wierd thing about the only 3 species of loach I have kept. My first were YoYos. I had to give them away. Next came the clowns and I still have them as above. But I have kept one more species, one of the smallest, Ambastaia sidthimunki . I have had a group of them for about 16 years.
Check out this pic https://www.loaches.com/species-index/photos/b/botia_kubotai_07.jpg/image_medium
Check out the some of the rest. There is a degree of variability in this species and I think your fish is clearly withing the range you will see.
3 pages of kubotai pics
It is the tiny dots inside the black markings that does it for me.
And here is the wierd thing about the only 3 species of loach I have kept. My first were YoYos. I had to give them away. Next came the clowns and I still have them as above. But I have kept one more species, one of the smallest, Ambastaia sidthimunki . I have had a group of them for about 16 years.
Well, I'm back to guessing kubotai again, lol. Much smaller than rostrata & easier to house & find tankmates but study the pics...like I said they're often mixed with other loaches that look similar when small...I was almost ready to get kubotai a couple years ago but they were mixed with yoyos & maybe rostratas &/or histrionicas. I want to keep my loaches in groups of at least 6 of the same species...they can tell even if I can't.
Ambastaia sidthimunki is a fish that I would like to keep but I have never seen it available in Mexico, and Kubotai only on one occasion, but I see that it is easy to confuse the species, they may have been available but with the wrong name. So my loach could be kubotai or a rostrata semi-adult, although the opinions of people in the FB group are lacking. Interesting.
