Any loach fans help with an ID?

[j_chicago]

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.

 

[Blueiz]

http://www.loaches.com/species-index

check this site out..

 

[Lupin]

Syncrossus helodes is my best guess.
http://www.loaches.com/species-index/syncrossus-helodes

 

[fishorama]

Maybe 1 of the sinibotia, we need a better side pic.

 

[mrfryc]

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.

 

[Lupin]

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]

Sinibotia longoventralis, but to be 100% sure we need a picture from the side.

 

[Martin Thoene]

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]

Yeah, looks like its S. helodes. Looks like I'll be donating to the LFS