New gastromyzon

[Jim Powers]

I just picked up a new gastromyzon today that was in a shipment of very small (about 2cm) G. scitulus and ctenocephalus. There was one striped fish in the bunch so I had to get it. I can't seem to get a good pic of it so I won't be able to post one. It's hard to say for sure what species it is. Most likely its a zebrinus, but I am not sure. Since the markings of many gastros such as zebrinus and ocellatus change as the fish grow, I will have to wait and see for sure. It does have the dash of blue down the middle of the tail fin of zebrinus but it differs from my adult zebrinus in its unbroken stripes.
It looks like the fish shown in this thread.
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... ht=#174782

[plaalye]

Do they look like the ones here Jim?
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/ ... 1263263735
Look forward to pics when you get them!

[Jim Powers]

It looks like the fish in the top pics of link on my first post and the zebrinus on the right hand side of the second pic in your post.
I imagine its probably zebrinus, but at under 1" length its hard to tell for sure.
I have two adult zebrinus that I have had for over a year and their markings are different than this new fish, but have changed in the time I have had them. The stripes that were once solid (more like the new fish) have now broken into smaller stripes.