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We stopped into Big Als on Kennedy tonite on the way home from work, and found these guys. The first 3 pics are of the pinkish ones with the spots and bands, and the last pic is from another tank.

I looked through the pictures in the Species Index, and I may have missed them - any idea what kinds they are? The pink ones with the spots, theres about 4 of them in that tank mixed in with bunches of the others.

the last pic looks like acanthocobitis botia, the spots and bars fish i would say is nemocheilius pallidus.
the red tails are the shisturas poss mahnerti's

mick

mickthefish wrote:the last pic looks like acanthocobitis botia

Id agree with Mick on that one

On a side note-Regarding Acanthocobitis botia, is the only way to tell the diff between them and Acanthocobitis rubidipinnis due to the redness on the finnage-mine (what I had thought to be Acanthocobitis botia) are starting to take on red finnage-does this make them infact Acanthocobitis rubidipinnis????

Ashleigh

Thanks for your help!

Snap up the Nemocheilius species. Not often seen are these little chaps!

Ashleigh wrote:
On a side note-Regarding Acanthocobitis botia, is the only way to tell the diff between them and Acanthocobitis rubidipinnis due to the redness on the finnage-mine (what I had thought to be Acanthocobitis botia) are starting to take on red finnage-does this make them infact Acanthocobitis rubidipinnis????

Ashleigh

Hi Ashleigh. No its not just the red in the fins; at least three Acanthocobitis can get red fins. rubidipinnis tends to have more dorsal fin rays, and I think from memory that males of rubidipinnis have a suborbital flap whereas botia have a ridge.

Graeme Robson wrote:Snap up the Nemocheilius species. Not often seen are these little chaps!

Ah, i'd love to... sadly, i'm at fishy capacity and can't convince the bf that another tank is a good idea (not enough space)