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Lifespan of B.Kubotai?

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:45 pm
by iL0veCichlids
Hello. I have an african cichlid aquarium (45gallon) with some loaches and catfish in there. I have a yoyo loach and a zebra loach. They are all happy together and my cichlids are breeding.
But I just saw a nice deal on Kijiji. Someone is selling 3 B.Kubotai loaches for 25$... But the problem is that they are around 4" and around the age of 3-4 years. Now I have just read that these guys just live up to 4 years maximum. Would it be pointless to buy these? And is this a good deal?
Thanks all! Im new to this forum

edit: at around 3 websites ive been at they say that it lives up to 4 years. but one of them says 10 years +. Which one is right?
http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/to ... polka-dot/

Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:29 pm
by Martin Thoene
Botia kubotai has not been available in the hobby for long enough for anyone to make a specific statement about lifespan.

Welcome to this site, but we have bad news for you:

http://www.loaches.com/articles/why-loa ... i-cichlids

Martin.

Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:13 pm
by bookpage
Martin, this is a very good article. Does this article also apply to the other lake cichlids?

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:21 am
by iL0veCichlids
mm alright ! thank you very much. I turned down the offer.