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I went shopping today. I have been looking for Botia Striata, I found them at a LFS in San Diego.




The one on the left is it Striata?




I am in love, again is it all your guy's fault. If I hadn't seen the pictures of Emma's striata I would never have gone looking for these.

I womanfully resisted the Hillies, I will not be assimilated that easily.
I will admit it was hard, my husband would have a cat is I wanted to set up ANOTHER tank.

What an interesting bunch of pictures! Looks like a Botia rostrata to me.

Yup, B. rostrata! Great looking fish though, I really want a group of these some day.

You take great photos, Anne Marie

Yes, those are Botia rostrata. Nice photos AnneMarie.

Emma

Well.....they may not be Botia striata, but they look like nice healthy little fishies.

You will be assimilated.....resistance is futile.
I foresee felines bursting forth in your husband's future. He has but one recourse.....keep you away from here

Martin.

Oh well if the are B. rostrata! I will just have to keep looking. <sigh>
It's just so hard to go to LFS after LFS to look for new and interesting fish, but I think I am up for the challenge

Don't <sigh> These chaps are lovely additions! And not that common compared to the Botia almorhae's!

I remember searching for years to find these back in 2001.

Oh I'm not giving them up, can you belive they were in a tank with Africans? Ha I would taken them anyway just to get them out of that tank. Ofcourse it took two hours to drip them but I wanted to be sure. I will post pictures on the FW forum of the apistogrammas and the Mikrogeophagus ramirezi I got also.

Great rescue, AnneMarie. You will really enjoy these, they undergo such amazing pattern trasformations, so you'll want to take lots of photos as a record of their development. (hint hint!).

Emma

Emma Turner wrote:Great rescue, AnneMarie. You will really enjoy these, they undergo such amazing pattern trasformations, so you'll want to take lots of photos as a record of their development. (hint hint!).

Emma

Oh I don't worry I will.

sorry, messed up my posts.

Speaking of B. striata, how many would you recommend keeping in a 1m long 180l. tank if they're the only loach?

wow they look really good. cute little guys.

palaeodave wrote:Speaking of B. striata, how many would you recommend keeping in a 1m long 180l. tank if they're the only loach?

I'd say you'd be good to keep 9 or 10 in there, Dave.

Emma