Loaches Online Forum

Hi all,

first I'd like to thank you for LOL-website and this forum, I've found it very useful and interesting.
I've started a river-tank project (200 litres) for hillstream loaches. I'll post some pics later and will surely ask for your advise at some points. I already have some Vanmanenia and Gastromyzon waiting for their new home.

I'm also interested in Beaufortia, especially B. leveretti. I'd like to know how to tell it apart from Beaufortia kweichowensis?

Thanks for reading this!

Kalevi

Hi Kalevi and welcome to Loaches Online.

I seem to remember an old thread which discussed Beaufortia leveretti. This is the name that is erroneously used in the trade by most suppliers instead of B. kweichowensis. I'll try and find the thread - I am sure it doubted that the real B. kweichowensis had ever been imported in any great number (if at all).

Looking forward to seeing your photos!

Emma

Here's that old thread from the archives:
http://aquaweb.pair.com/forums/archives ... read=91735
If you click on the responses to the original thread (underneath) you will see that ichthyologist HH Ng believes the real B. kweichowensis is unlikely to have enetered the trade.

Emma

I love that man. :0

Thanks, Emma!

Sorry to take so long to answer. I've been busy with my tank project and spent yesterday all day at a local aquarium society's auction buying plants and stuff for my tank.
Unfortunately the picture in your link above didn't work. Where can I find pics that can be trusted to be of the real species? I don't think f.ex. google is reliable enough.
I don't know about the trade abroad, but in Finland it seems to be almost impossible to get B. leveretti, B. kweichowensis is sold more frequently. One store claimed to have had real B. leveretti and sold them for 25 € (Gastromyzon are often sold for 8 € and Sewellia for 15 €). I didn't see them so can't tell if they were real or not.
So if anyone has a picture of a real B. leveretti to post here or can point one out for me, I'd be very grateful.

Kalevi