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From Amazon. Will arrive on Dec 24th. The best Chrismas gift for my self.

It's walmart super center near Waukegan, IL.
There are around 20 hillstream loaches there, some died, some sick. I choosed the most healthy ones. They are in a quarantine tank now and doing OK so far.

I never buy fish from Walmart because of the poor quality and selection. Yesterday I went to Walmart to buy a 10 G tank. And I found those hillstream loach! They are labelled as common pleco:) I bought three of them. Id help please? http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/tangtangfish/Picture177.jpg...

SK02 looks extremly beautiful. Hope I could have one in my tank.

What are they fighting for? They are claiming the mussel? Too big to eat through.

From Frank, right? Congradulations, look good! How many/who else is in the tank? How did you know that? Thanks Frank for getting these beatiful fishes. My tank is 25G, three hillstream loaches, two biota dario, non loach fishes include half beaks, pipefish, gobies, galaxy rasbora, catfish, and glas...

Gastromyzon ctenocephalus
Sewellia lineolata

Thank you guys.
Now I see.

Look at the color pattern of the tails you will tell the difference.
Also the yellow stripes are wider than B. dario.

I have all these books

I don't think it's Botia dario:)

Just bought two small biotas from LFS.
Can anyone help me ID them? Are they the same species or different?