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Skunk Botia?

Post by Frank M. Greco » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:25 pm

This fish came in with my order of skunk Botia. You can't really tell from the pic, but it's more elongate than the skunks, and doesn't have the dorsal stripe.

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Post by Mark in Vancouver » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:31 pm

It looks like a skinny Y. eos to me.
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Post by Frank M. Greco » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:34 pm

I'll fatten it up and see if the coloration of eos shows up.
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Post by Emma Turner » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:35 pm

I think that's an underweight young Yasuhikotakia lecontei.

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Post by Emma Turner » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:40 pm

Y. lecontei has 8 branched rays in the dorsal fin, whereas Y. eos is said to have 10-11. I don't think the picture shows as many as 10.

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Post by Martin Thoene » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:42 pm

Me too Emma. It's too long forward of the dorsal to be an eos IMO.

Years ago in England, I saw a whole batch of fish this shape. They had the caudal peduncle marking, but were silvery blue with pale yellow fins.
They definitely didn't look skinny though, just slimly built fish.

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Post by Mark in Vancouver » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:46 pm

Emma Turner wrote:Y. lecontei has 8 branched rays in the dorsal fin, whereas Y. eos is said to have 10-11. I don't think the picture shows as many as 10.

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Nicely spotted, Emma. When in doubt start counting the rays on all the fins.
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Post by Emma Turner » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:15 am

The sign of a real 'loach geek'! :lol:
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Post by helen nightingale » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:12 am

and there's nothing wrong with that :D
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Post by Graeme Robson » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:52 am

*Here here* :wink:
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Post by Mad Duff » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:42 pm

Could be a Yasuhikotakia Caudipunctata, they have 8 dorsal spines as well.
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Post by Graeme Robson » Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:17 pm

Frank, can you see any speckles on the Caudal fin? I see where your coming from, Mark. Juvenile Yasuhikotakia Caudipunctata.
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Post by Martin Thoene » Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:46 pm

The colour's wrong for a juvie caudipunctata Graeme.

Here's under 2" SL eos (left) and caudipunctata (foreground).

Frank's picture far more matches the eos in colour, but you can see that is shorter forrard of the dorsal.

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Young caudis have much more variety of colour within their bodies...

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Post by Frank M. Greco » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:22 pm

Emma Turner wrote:Y. lecontei has 8 branched rays in the dorsal fin, whereas Y. eos is said to have 10-11. I don't think the picture shows as many as 10. Emma
Emma, I fanned out the dorsal, and it looks like there are 10 rays. I'll know for sure once I narc the fish so it's not jumping around.

As to the caudal fin, here's a pic:

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Post by Emma Turner » Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:51 am

Hi Frank,

Are the 10 rays all branched?

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