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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.

It looks like a skinny Y. eos to me.

I'll fatten it up and see if the coloration of eos shows up.

I think that's an underweight young Yasuhikotakia lecontei.

Emma

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

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.

Martin.

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

Nicely spotted, Emma. When in doubt start counting the rays on all the fins.

The sign of a real 'loach geek'!

and there's nothing wrong with that

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Could be a Yasuhikotakia Caudipunctata, they have 8 dorsal spines as well.

Frank, can you see any speckles on the Caudal fin? I see where your coming from, Mark. Juvenile Yasuhikotakia Caudipunctata.

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.



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



Martin.

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:

Hi Frank,

Are the 10 rays all branched?

Emma