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Northern Monkey
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Baby Emperors

Post by Northern Monkey » Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:38 pm

Hi Got these off the man himself last week , They are ever so cute .
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They dont keep still :lol:
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newshound
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Post by newshound » Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:06 pm

sorry to say but if that is the case i have a whole bunch of those...and cheap!
drain your pool!
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Northern Monkey
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Real thing.

Post by Northern Monkey » Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:44 pm

Hi these are the real thing ,why dont you think they are, they are Botia udomritthiruji.
I am very good friends with Kamphol Udomritthiruji who the fish are named after he sent them to me .
The problem is that maybe they look like rostrata,kubotai,histrionica.
I am confident they are the real deal.
Check colour , dorsal marking and collection locality.
Maybe you would like to use the photo in the loach index.
Keep your powder dry !
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Bully
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Post by Bully » Fri Dec 04, 2009 6:43 am

*Drool*

A fish on my wish list that will remain only a wish :) I simply do not have the space for a tank that would do them justice.
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newshound
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Post by newshound » Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:53 pm

that is great then (thumbs up)

did they come at a reasonable price?
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Botia Robert
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Post by Botia Robert » Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:08 am

Hi, I recently got something similar. I thought mine were Histrionica. Any chance mine could be Botia udomritthiruji? :lol:

Would the collection point have Botia udomritthiruji, Botia Histrionica and Botia Kubotai co-habbitating?

I know they are really hard to distinguish when they are young. I have read the articles at LOL especially TDO's article.
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Northern Monkey
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Emperor loaches

Post by Northern Monkey » Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:27 pm

Hi,There is a man who might be able to answer these questions .
The problem with that is he may not be able to with his exclusivity?
They are in a tank next to some similar sized histrionica
The emperors are more yellow and the bars are splitting in straight lines not x's and y's .
I willl ask Kamphol , maybe he is looking in?
They are £9.50 , a lot cheaper than the big boys we've had in .
Keep your powder dry !
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Graeme McKellar
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Post by Graeme McKellar » Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:01 am

Hi All, Botia Robert PM'ed me and let me know about these fish that were at a shop in Brisbane so I went up and grabbed three. In his PM he mentioned that he thought that they could have been Kubotai due to the light-blue dots that most had in the centre of the dark bands and I can say they certainly had the look of a young Kub but the dark band was certainly different. I asked the guy in the shop to catch me ones without the dots - heres a few photo's.
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And a pic of one of my Rostrata's.
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Cheers Graeme. And thanks again Botia Robert.
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