Collecting Spined Weather Loach (Cobitis elongata)

[vitaly_marmeladov]

check out my pics of wild weather loach Cobitis elongata. caught them myself )))

 

[Tifftastic]

Thats pretty cool! Are you catching and keeping them or doing something else with them?

 

[vitaly_marmeladov]

Thats pretty cool! Are you catching and keeping them or doing something else with them?

just for fun. they were all released back. but now i have an aquarium set up. so i might keep some

 

[Hendre]

are you the vitaly on mfk? they look very different from all the captive strains.

also how do you catch them?

 

[vitaly_marmeladov]

are you the vitaly on mfk? they look very different from all the captive strains.

also how do you catch them?

yes, that's me on MKF ))) according to the internets, these guys are different species Cobitis elongata. the ones you see for sale are Cobitis tanie

i caught them out of Dniester River using crab/crayfish trap

 

[Hendre]

ah, cool stuff man!

 

[Aquaticfrog32]

That's cool. I'm very glad they were all realised.