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Today I managed to get a couple of decent photos of the strangely marked Botia Striata I recently purchased, it has settled in well with the other 6 but it does stand out from the crowd

what an interesting fish! reticuloyoyo mixed with striata; fantastic.
you're a lucky man.

Great pics, Mark. Certainly a very uniquely patterned B. striata you have there. Excellent stuff!

Emma

That fish has very cool markings. Nice find

Very cool!!
You sure that fish didn't come from the Czech Republic?

... even though I schould be doing other things right now, .... was looking at them a looooong time, wondering striatas? But I think they are - what I know: they are fascinating

Thanks for all the comments , I have been assured that they were shipped direct from an Asian wholesaler/distributor. That one and the other that I got with it were among the 50 Botia Striata that were ordered, I am hoping to be informed about any more unusually marked fish when the next lot come in

Jim Powers wrote: Very cool!!
You sure that fish didn't come from the Czech Republic?

haaaa haaa haaa

Those loaches were friggin $$$ too, and they weren't the right species... I was so dissappointed

anglefish83 wrote:

Those loaches were friggin $$$ too, and they weren't the right species... I was so dissappointed

That's got to be frustrating after looking for them for so long. Keep looking, REAL histrionica are bound to turn up eventually.

Excellent markings!!

Lovely Loach!

Great fish!

Just how rare are these markings? Did anyone ever see it before?

Helen also has a unusually marked specimen, and I have to say I myself have only ever come across 2 or 3 in all the hundreds I must have imported over the years. That might not mean all that much though, as it could be down to luck of the draw. I see a lot of pattern variation in clowns, histrionica, rostrata etc etc (and on one occasion a dario) but rarely in B. striata.
Be interested to hear what others have to say about this.

Emma

Interesting...

There are a couple of strangely patterned 2" Dario's in a store around here. Not as good as your strange pattern, but still: a semicircle, and one with two stripes forming an "X".

I'll try to make pictures if they are still there next time.

(Actually, I am very tempted. Unfortunately, most fish from this store dies on me: their fish *always* brings ich, darios are suspiciously skinny, and probably some other disease too....and the only way to quarantine them is with Confuzona's....seems just a little risky...)

thats a lovely fish Mark. im not surprised iy stands out

i wonder what the outcome would be like if yours and mine were to breed? anyone know how to do home aquarium artificial insemination?

These are really nice. I have seen some interestingly-patterned striata in my neighborhood but nothing as asymmetrically-jaguar patterned as this.