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Just a couple of photos of my chunkiest sid. She's a fatty for sure!

LOL, test her for steroids

Sure doesn't look like she's missed many meals lately. Is she gravid?

I thought that Polkadot loaches are Kubs and Dwarf chains are sids

Nice and full

Yikes, that is a chunky munkey!! It'd be great if some get fertilized, good luck.

I never saw a sid that fat before. Wow.

raecarrow wrote:I thought that Polkadot loaches are Kubs and Dwarf chains are sids

You would be right there. However who mentioned Polkadot Loaches? All I see in the pics are Y.sidthimunki and B.striata.

Doc wrote:

raecarrow wrote:I thought that Polkadot loaches are Kubs and Dwarf chains are sids

You would be right there. However who mentioned Polkadot Loaches? All I see in the pics are Y.sidthimunki and B.striata.

I see B.Striata and B.Kubotai. I've never seen a sid that was that close in size to a Striata or was tan and brown. The only sids i have seen have looked like this.


The loach in the picture looks like a B.kubotai to me


Then again, I could be wrong. Maybe this fish is just so old and so pudgy that it looks like a B.kubotai to me. Too bad you don't have a full side picture of the fish, that might make it easier to tell the difference.

The fish is definitely Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki. As sids mature the chain pattern tends to develop all over the body. This fish was bought as a small specimen approximately two years ago. Whilst, I see a passing resemblance to B. kubotai I would expect it be confused with Y. nigrolineata first

Bully wrote:The fish is definitely Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki. As sids mature the chain pattern tends to develop all over the body. This fish was bought as a small specimen approximately two years ago. Whilst, I see a passing resemblance to B. kubotai I would expect it be confused with Y. nigrolineata first

Gotcha, I didn't realize that their pattern grew like that. I have (aparently young) sids and a full patterned kub. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a Y.nigrolineata so I don't think that I could be able to confuse them. Thanks for the correction Now I know.

If you go into the profile for Y. sidthimunki and view the additional images you will see photos of more mature sids, including two of my own that were added:





and, the following photo, by Dave Rinaldo, of a group of adults which better shows the markings:

Beautiful fish. Now that I can see their sides they definately aren't Kubs.

Thanks for setting me straight

Bully those Sids look absolutely stunning how many have you got ?

I've only got 13.

If you're referring to the very last picture in the thread, then it's not my picture, I borrowed it from the species index gallery for illustration

That shocked me enough to make me actually comment...That is one fat sidthimunki!