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Post by Emma Turner » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:14 pm

These beauties came in last week listed as Acanthocobitis urophthalmus:

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They faded a little on being put into the photo tank, but as you can see the markings still look pretty amazing. 8) Does everyone agree with the ID? Fishbase lists the maximum size for A. urophthalmus as 4cm TL, these are 6-7cm TL.

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Post by clownloachfan » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:37 pm

Send some of those beauties over to the usa, we never get variety here.
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Post by Blue » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:48 am

clownloachfan wrote:Send some of those beauties over to the usa, we never get variety here.
Me too.8)

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Post by Graeme Robson » Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:05 am

Superb! 8)

They look like Acanthocobitis urophthalmus although a bit on the large side. Perhaps FishBase is just using the odd small specimen for their references.
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Post by Mad Duff » Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:25 am

Stunning fish Emma :)

Going by the fact that some of them have a lot of red in their fins and the fact that they are quite a bit bigger than the accepted size for Acanthocobitis urophthalmus could they be Acanthocobitis rubidipinnis :?:
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Post by The.Dark.One » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:28 am

Nice fish and photo's Emma. Where were they caught?

The full name is now Acanthocobitis (Paracanthocobitis) uruphthalmus! :wink:
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Post by MoonPye » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:09 am

clownloachfan wrote:Send some of those beauties over to the usa, we never get variety here.
It's true!!! I've been sitting here eating my heart out with all these beautiful photos.. I have never seen these loaches here.
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Post by Martin Thoene » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:15 am

My LFS has these on order for next week so they should be in Toronto soon. For anyone not a million miles from New York look at Franks Aquarium website as I bet he'll get them in soon and he ships.

Funnily enough, I saw a bunch of really nice fish labelled as Zipper Loaches a few moths back at my local Big Als that looked identical to Emma's pictures. They had the same redness in the fins.

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Post by Emma Turner » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:20 am

Thanks all. :D
The.Dark.One wrote:Nice fish and photo's Emma. Where were they caught?
Unfortunately, I'm unlikely to be able to find out with these. They came from a different supplier (in Singapore) who doesn't tend to give much away. They just suddenly appeared on their specials list last week. They always have A. botia listed as a permanently stocked species under the Zipper nametag, but these were a new addition to the weekly specials list and are not going to be a permanent addition.

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Post by clownloachfan » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:29 am

Hey moonpye, want to go protest and demand that the fish stores around here start getting a wider variety of loaches in? :D
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Post by Mark in Vancouver » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:46 pm

Gorgeous fish, Emma.
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Post by Blue » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:58 pm

clownloachfan wrote:Hey moonpye, want to go protest and demand that the fish stores around here start getting a wider variety of loaches in? :D
And it'll be great if Singapore ships on its neighboring countries.:cry:.
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Post by The.Dark.One » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:12 pm

They do match the pictures in Pethiyagoda's Freshwater Fishes of Sri Lanka (where urophthalmus is described from). Also, there are three populations there, one of them having red fins (Kalu River system). Very nice fish and one to keep hold of I would say.

The size of 4cm is taken from Pethiyagoda's book, and in turn was probably came from the original description, which was only based on 2 specimens.
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Post by MoonPye » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:22 pm

clownloachfan wrote:Hey moonpye, want to go protest and demand that the fish stores around here start getting a wider variety of loaches in? :D
Yeh, hee hee. Too bad I won't have the time for a protest for a while.. maybe when the baby is a few months old.. :wink: I already made a deal with hubby no more fish till after baby settles in. Ah, ha ha ha ha! (Yah, ok, I'll try...)
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Post by Emma Turner » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:44 pm

Thank you T.D.O. :D

Graeme has promised to do a profile on this species when he gets a free moment.

(hint hint :P )
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