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had a beezer of a time today, shopping for fish at BAS fish bought.

10 Shistura corica
2 Botia hystrinicas 4.5 inch SL
4 Sewelia lineolata
5 Shistura sp
1 Nemochelius poss selengoricas borneo fish

none loach , a raimas forgot the bloody name, it's my age.

mick

and i'm skint until i can get to a cashpoint

Guttattus ?

Andy pandy spot on mate as usual, so what does it make the other bugger i picked up from neils?.

i need your knowledge people here,s the fish i bought yesterday,
ive checked on the sp index i'm a bit mixed up with the corica and another fish can you cast your eyes on them and tell me which you think is the correct one.
i think one of the Shistura sp could be rupecula, i'll post that as the first pic, and the others look like sp 7.
the rest i know.
thanks



coricas ?



mick

another couple then i'll leave you's in peace. haha





cheers
mick

Mick I don't know about the IDs but have to say GORGEOUS FISH!

ta luv,
but i only picked and bought them, it's all to the shops credit for getting me these fish that i can't resist having in my tanks.

mick

mickthefish wrote:ta luv,
but i only picked and bought them, it's all to the shops credit for getting me these fish that i can't resist having in my tanks.

mick

Glad I wasn't shopping with you, because I'd be setting up a few more tanks right now because I couldn't resist them either.

The Schistura with the broad face looks a little kongphengi-ish to me.

Cmon the experts where are you, give us a bit of help here.

mick

Mick

Not sure about rupecula for the first one. It does almost key out to that species if it is from the mainland, however it doesnt look like its got enough bars to me. Do you know where it was caught?

The other one does look at first glance like a selangoricus although the top lobe of the caudal on that species tends to be quite long; I think it is closer to N. spiniferus. However, both these species have acuminate scales above and below the lateral line and I cant seem to see any on the photo. I wondered about N. kapausensis but this doesnt have tubular nares. It could also be N. saravacensis as this doesnt have acuminate scales and the number of bars differ in some specimens of this species - it can have 13-17 bars (8-12 in selangoricus, 10-13 in spiniferus).

Can you get a close up of the back end of the fish? I cant seem to see any acuminate scales. If no acuminate scales it is possibly saravacensis.

steve lad, only the first pic is what i think could be rupecula the next two pics are the fish it come in with.
on to the other fish that come in with kottelatlimia, so i'm thinking it came from either borneo or sarawak.
only trouble is bud is that Patrick is the exporter, and as we know he only collects the fish who go out in the field to collect them.
so the fish could have come from there or not?.
i'll try to get a closer shot from the dorsal to the peduncle bud.

mick

Mick, the first one looks very much like the some of the ones in the thread below (minus the red colour). The body shape, head shape, position of fins, lateral line, bands (you can see faint bands in the body), caudal shape, dark bar in caudal peduncle, all match.

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... t=denisoni

The fish in the 2nd and 3rd photos looks a similar shape etc to the one in the 1st. Have you got a side shot of them and did they come in together?

right steve, yes to them coming in the same shipment, ive done a few more pics for you to look at as well as the scales on the other fish.
me cameras red hot now bud. it's getting someusage at the mo. haha

here's the pics









cheers for the help steve

mick

ayyup Mick

The first fish is the same species as the 2nd and 3rd, all their characteristics match exactly. Its just that the top one doesnt have as much body and is showing a darker base colour (probably a male). Difficult to tell for certain but IF they are from India, they are probably rupecula or a similar undescribed species. I thought about multifasciatus but that has less branched dorsal rays and has a distinct nasal barbel. The ones on your photos seem to be tubes rather than barbels but its hard to tell cos when I magnify it blurs and I cant tell for sure.

I still cant see any acuminate scales on the other one so IF it is from Borneo its probably saravacensis.