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both me and Neil are a bit annoyed at his supplier, the toerag did'nt send my big striata , but thats another story. these are some of the loaches from India, Laos and Thailand.
these are a very cute schistura from Myanamar, all that was given for them is sp Rakhine, i got ten of these.

they have two types of homeloptera, one is yunnanilus and the other i'm not sure of, could be a new species for all i know.
here's a pic of the don't know.


and for Mark there's a couple of sinogastromyzons for you mate.



mick

here's a few more pics of a few loaches i've never seen before.
Laos redtail schistura.


anyone for a biggg modesta with nice colours.


and i know this is a catfish, but you had to see this fish to appreciate it.

pic has'nt been touched up, what you see is what i saw.

mick

Mick, how many Schistura's are left. I wouldn't mind a few of those chaps!

Second one looks like a Schistura nicholsi.

Both types...

loads matey, and reasonably priced

mick

Good Good!!

Very nice fish!!!
That cat looks like one of the Glyptothorox species.
The Homaloptera type hillstreams look something like this oddball species I have had for years that has never grown larger than 1.3" (3cm). I believe Emma has one like it.

Nice looking fish!

Do those Schistura in the first pic look like these ones? http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=17457 Seems coincidental that they are also being called S. sp Rakhine.

Those big Y. modesta are beautiful, what amazing colour on the fins. Jim is right, those Homaloptera do indeed look like an oddball I've had in my river tank these past few years.

It's a shame about the big B. striata though.

Emma

Jim the homaloptera are around 2 1/2 to 3 inches long, very nice but my river tank is over capacity now, so i had to leave them there. life sucks sometimes mate.

mick

How big are the modesta, and are both shots of the same fish? I've got a little one of the same iridescent aqua and orange/yellow, and the rest of mine look like the first one- blue/purple and orange.
Did they come from the same spot/river/country?

The cats are serious critters- i forget the name. Teeth like you wouldn't believe. This seems to be what a cat has to do (evolutionarily) to make it in the loach-lands of Asia: go mid-water or go very predatory.

Andyroo, i tried to get a size but it was hard as they were mostly staying at the back of the tank, my guess would be a good 7 inches body for the biggest going down to 6+ inch for the smallest.
the glypto's are not the giant ones these were around 4 inches, they had another sp that would suit the fastest current we could supply it was so streamlined. cracking fish.

mick

Lovely

Your cruel showing pics of these.... Im not getting up till next Wed

Ashleigh

i thought you were coming to the convention this weekend?.

mick

Me three........

Only for the loach talk tomorrow... I have a **** load of work to do

What day ya'll heading to Neils....


Ashleigh