Getting Cut by a Loach

[H3D]

Yes Haytch the genus botia is included in the family (super family?) botiine & sub-family botiid, but lets not split suborbital spines over it

There is NO family or super family called Bottine or sub family called botiid! :duh: I already explained why people use these words.

As already mentioned several times in this thread there family (super family) is called Cobitidae.

 

[jpappy789]

There is a subfamily Botiinae...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botiinae

 

[H3D]

There is a subfamily Botiinae...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botiinae

Correct. Also know as botiidae, not botiid.

 

[fishorama]

You're right, botiinae & botiidae, I should have looked up those endings :silly:. Botiid is used for botia like loaches & is a more correct term than botiine

 

[cam191919]

boating?

 

[fishorama]

Not enough vowels, maybe boatiiaingae

 

[H3D]

:rofl:

 

[jpappy789]

Not enough vowels, maybe boatiiaingae

:lol:

 

[jet_mek]

Back to the spikes, does any body know at what age they start to develop and are they found on both sexes? I have a pair of clowns that I've had for almost ten years and as far as I can remember(I'm at work)I've never noticed either of them to have spikes.

 

[fishorama]

The spines are "always" there, they don't develop as part of sexual maturation & both sexes have them. Like I said earlier, I have kept loaches for years & have only seen them once. They sit inside a groove under the eye & are not visible unless extended.