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Post by Mad Duff » Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:25 am

I picked up these 2 lovely marked rostrata from Emma's last week:

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Post by plaalye » Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:57 pm

WOW! I've never seen this type of marking on rostrata here. I couldn't resist if I did. Thanks for all the great pics!!
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Post by palaeodave » Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:02 pm

Those are very pretty. Will be interesting to watch them grow.
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Post by newshound » Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:55 pm

wow wow wow wow!!!!
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Post by Jim Powers » Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:33 pm

plaalye wrote:
WOW! I've never seen this type of marking on rostrata here. I couldn't resist if I did. Thanks for all the great pics!!
This is often what they end up looking like as they get larger. Mine started out with the typical ladder type markings but now look like this at 3".
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Post by helen nightingale » Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:26 pm

thanks for showing the pictures. that one in the top tank never did show himself that clearly to me. wonderfull markings :D
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Post by Graeme Robson » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:33 am

Wonderful tight markings for such a small-er Rostrata. Looking forward to see how the pattern grows. :D
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Post by Jim Powers » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:27 am

What size are these?
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Post by Mad Duff » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:49 am

Both of these are around 6 to 6.5 cm, the one with the most developed markings (left hand side 1st & 2nd pic) is more silver in body colour and black markings, hopefully it should be a stunner when it grows to the size of my existing ones :)
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Post by Jim Powers » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:57 am

That will be interesting to see. They both look rather stunning to me as they are now.
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Post by slick666 » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:32 am

Amazing Loaches. I've never seen such markings. Very beautiful.
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