My Loaches :), Load warning ;)

[Tastyfish]

Hi everyone, Im new to this forum but i still have a big interest for loaches of every kind and im thinking of starting a aquarium only for loaches, but enough of that.
I just wanted to show you some pictures of my botias (and a schistura is the latest ID i got).

I'll start with the schistura!




Then i have my Tiger loaches (I think they are Helodes).



Then a little bit of both



And i do have some Clowns aswell!


And ofcourse the group foto!, but in bad quality


They live with:
1 Ctenopoma Acutirostre
1 Microctenopoma Fasciolatum (i think im gonna get a female though)
1 Crossocheilus Siamensis
1 Epalzeorhynchos Kalopterus

And the botias are 10 so they make up alot of the population.
4 Clowns
4 Tigers
2 Schistura's

Well hope you enjoyed the fotos!
Edit; Pictures of the other inhabitants can be provided and i do have fulltank shots.

[Mad Duff]

Nice photos and nice fish

The tree branches look interesting what tree are they from

[kellifish]

great fish. Thanks for sharing... until I found this site I never knew there were sooo many loaches!

[avant]

the setup looks terrific... absolutely natural-looking

[Martin Thoene]

Yes, very natural looking. I like it.

Your Tigers look like Syncrossus (formerly Botia) berdmorei.

Syncrossus helodes have vertically orientated oval spots in the area behind the pectoral fins, not the multiple horizontally oriented spots and streaks all over like on your fish.

Martin.

[Tastyfish]

thanks everyone .
the branches are from a tree that i dont know the english name for .
but branches are ok in aquariums as long as they arent to thick wich i think mine arent .
The only thing i thought of when choosing my branches were not to pick branches from pines and trees like that.
Thanks avant, i tried not to stray to far away from the biotope but i did with using swordplants and having ctenopomas .
but i absolutely love my ctenopomas .
I tried not to stray to far away from a natural look either so i tried to keep to one plant (well that didnt work so i have alot of each plant) since there arent a wide variety of plants in nature in one little spot.
and i tried to keep to 1 kind of stone (didnt work out since i wanted a big stone and the only one i had was the pale one).

I try to take good photos, its really hard.
those fotos are like the 9 best out of 500 photos so my fotoskills arent the best .

Thanks alot for your ID Martin!
i have discussed my loaches with a friend (who works were i bought them).
And he said that its really possible for my loaches to be berdmorei wich i though they were after looking around this page .
They sold them as superciliaris (or however their latin name are spelled).

[Martin Thoene]

They sold them as superciliaris (or however their latin name are spelled.

Spot on with the spelling

Superciliaris is a Sinobotia from China and looks nothing like your fish.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/ ... imgAnch181

It amazes me sometimes how shops can be so innacurate with names.

"Botia superciliaris" is often the wrong name which Sinobotia pulchra get sold under. There at least I can see the possible confusion.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/ ... imgAnch179

Martin.

[Tastyfish]

Oh cool .
it would be fun to have some superciliaris!
they look really nice, i think they can get superciliaris!
Im gonna check with them!
How would superciliarisar be with the fish my loaches are with now?

[Martin Thoene]

Because they're of Chinese origin, they do better in cooler temps. I have S. pulchra in an unheated River-Tank setup, although in actuality it never drops below around 74F and is much higher right now. They do like lots of flow and good oxygenation.

Martin.

[Tastyfish]

Oh ok, maybe not the best match .
will have them in mind for my new loach tank though!