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Oh WOW! Check this out..........
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:12 pm
by Martin Thoene
http://www.petfrd.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20174
I think
Schistura disparizona will become everybody's new "must have".
INCREDIBLE!
Martin.
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:23 pm
by Demon Yoyoloach
I seldom wander over here, but that is one cool looking loach!
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:11 am
by Graeme Robson
Yeah, amazing pictures! The Schistura disparizona looks like two different species 'stuck' together.
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:48 am
by Emma Turner
Drool!
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:59 am
by avant
I'm still drooling over it since i first saw the photos yesterday
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:22 am
by Jim Powers
Very cool!!
Of course I have two other species ahead of it on my wish list.
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:30 am
by Gary Herring
Nice
Definately simular to Emma's
S. Balteata in that 'half and half' kind of way.
Wonder what purpose those extreme markings serve in their natural habitats? Must be
some reason for them to have evolved that way. Hmmmm.... front halfs more camoflaged becouse it rests half in / half out of caves or tight spaces, perhaps?
Just a suggestion, feel free to take the p**s if its ridiculous.
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:22 am
by Graeme Robson
Or it's a 'male' showing a strong breeding colouration. All in all. It's amazing!
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:18 pm
by HylaChristine
This one is sweet!
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:38 pm
by Lo@chNessMonster
Are some of them weather loaches? Some of them definatly had the body style, but I'm sure thats not all you can go on.
Shane,
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:14 pm
by andyroo
What a fantastic critter !
Now that this is the new must-have how is the industry at the first-world consumer-end going to ensure sustainable harvest/availibility? I'm sure the national regulator in its home region won't carry that potato.
Andyroo (bit of a killjoy... sorry)
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:48 pm
by mikev
One weird fish (drooling a bit)...I wonder if the head and the dorsal are as they supposed to be or damaged?
But I'm drooling even more about
(from the same thread)...a half-erased hillstream-like pattern...
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:00 pm
by Graeme Robson
mikev wrote:One weird fish (drooling a bit)...I wonder if the head and the dorsal are as they supposed to be or damaged?
But I'm drooling even more about
(from the same thread)...a half-erased hillstream-like pattern...
Yeah this are
Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei. Lovely peaceful loaches which are 'vast' in appearance and distribution. I keep 3 of these chaps.
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:01 pm
by Emma Turner
Likely that we won't be allowed to import the
Schisturas into the UK, due to the recent legislations.
Emma
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:11 pm
by Gary Herring
Oh yeah, I keep fogetting about that. Gutting really. Just as well I got the S. Nicholsi in time then.