Black Mountain Botia

[Frank M. Greco]

My Thailand exporter finally had some of what he's calling "Black Mountain Botia". It's not a Botia, but rather a Homaloptera or something similar.

[Frank M. Greco]

Here's another view:

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One last view:

[Frank M. Greco]

This also came in the same bag:



Also in the bag were a bunch of confuzona (Yawn!)

[mikev]

Smithi's again?
(this fin overlap...does it occur in any other Homaloptera species?)

[Frank M. Greco]

Smithi's again?
(this fin overlap...does it occur in any other Homaloptera species?)

The last pic is probably Smith's, but I don't think the other one is. Markings are very different.

[Martin Thoene]

Probably H. tweediei Frank.

http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/ho ... ediei.html

The term "Black" most often gets associated in exporter's lists with Homaloptera zollingeri, but these are 100% not those.

Martin.

[Frank M. Greco]

[quote="Martin Thoene"]Probably H. tweediei Frank.[quote]

Looks like it. The markings are identical to the ones on my fish.