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ID Please!
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:44 am
by Gar
I've had this guy for a while. He came in on a plant that I, thankfully, put into an empty plant tank, lol. He hitchhiked! After quarantining him I put him in my 20h. He looks great.
Anywho, it looks like a sort of catfish or loach. I wasn't able to get great pictures of it, since he keeps moving around and around and around - ow, my head.
Here they are - he does tend to go on the wall nibbling for algae or some such. Halp!
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:00 am
by Diana
Hi Gar, welcome to Loaches
I think you have a fish called a Garra. There are several species. A lot of them do like eating algae.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:50 am
by Gar
Oooh, okay! Thanks for the welcome, by the way.
I've been lurking for a while, I love the loaches. :3
Someone said Garra Flavatra... I'm beginning to think that's it, too! The fact you got it in the garra classification helped a lot. Thanks!
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:13 am
by Martin Thoene
It's a
Garra flavatra. Many people here keep them. They're fabulous fish.
Martin.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:52 am
by Jim Powers
And many people here wish they kept them.
Hitchhiker
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:54 am
by starsplitter7
Jim Powers wrote:And many people here wish they kept them.
Exactly what I was thinking. What luck to have such a great hitchhiker.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:17 am
by helen nightingale
you are very lucky to have such a wonderfull "free gift" with your plants
my garra cambodgensis move very quickly when they want to, and it took ages before i could get a photo, so i know how you feel regarding getting pictures
