Picture 060 by Frederick Miles, on Flickr6 fish 5 species, two of them blurs. Yes I know what the blurs are. Have fun identifying them.
Identify fish for entertainment
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Picture 060 by Frederick Miles, on Flickr6 fish 5 species, two of them blurs. Yes I know what the blurs are. Have fun identifying them.
True, but not specific enough. I'll accept common names if they are species specific, but one of them will require the species because the common name is the genus. I'll give it a week and if they haven't been identified by then and there isn't an active discussion going I'll post the answers and put up a new photo.
See if you can deduce what the blurs are, I think there is still enough information in both blurs to give a hint.
Otos and yoyo loach, female guppy? . Blurs...hmm, just don't know lol. Bottom left is albino dojo? Top right is female cherry barb?
I think I see a blurry pangio kuhli, a botia histrionica, a female guppy, 2 otos of some usual kind & maybe a very speedy zebra danio
I'll go by first post that is correct.
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yes on these two. I didn't get a yoyo because those get a bit to large for a 20 gallon tank. The pattern would have changed on my loach once it reached maturity.
Well, you may have bought it as a b. kubotai, but I'm not so sure. It's pretty small & I've been seeing mixed lots of kubotai, histrionica & maybe rostrata or even birdii. I think you'll have to wait until it grows a bit to know better. I got small histy loaches that changed a lot but looked like yours.
It was sold as Sargent Major loach which is what rostrata gets labeled with, and it is been long enough I don't remember what happened to it. I had a decent lfs that would take stuff back so I may have returned it. This shot is from '03.
You are right that it could be something else. I do know that it was not easy to get then. I put it on the wish list at the fish store for a portion of a year before they got some in.
You are right that it could be something else. I do know that it was not easy to get then. I put it on the wish list at the fish store for a portion of a year before they got some in.
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Ooh, cool! I'm not sure rostrata would be any smaller or less aggressive than yoyos but definitely more unusual. Neither for a 20g at 6+ inches. But on third look that gray area between the dark lines says to me not yoyo, probably not histrionica & I don't see any lateral stripes forming at all so maybe not kubs either. Dang, if I could be sure of getting 6+ of the same species I'd do it soon! But like I said, lately they seem mixed lots. Histys or kubotai would be great but only both in a big enough tank...rostrata seem too much for any tank I'm likely to have any time soon.
I've wondered about possible hybrids too. Neat that you got him in '03 but too bad you can't be sure anymore, I was hoping for you'd know in a year or so.
I've wondered about possible hybrids too. Neat that you got him in '03 but too bad you can't be sure anymore, I was hoping for you'd know in a year or so.
I found that there was much less interaction between the rostrata and the other fish than the yoyo that came with another larger tank I had. The information I had then was that it was smaller than yoyo and I had no clue the adult appearance was different than the juvenile at that point. I lost it at one point when it swam up into the eclipse style filter in the hood. It was up there under the filter for about a month before I found it. So quite able to swim up swift current and through small spaces.
So only the ottos left to identify.
So only the ottos left to identify.
