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Post by Martin Thoene » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:12 pm

http://www.petfrd.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20174

I think Schistura disparizona will become everybody's new "must have".

INCREDIBLE!

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Post by Demon Yoyoloach » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:23 pm

I seldom wander over here, but that is one cool looking loach!
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Post by Graeme Robson » Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:11 am

Yeah, amazing pictures! The Schistura disparizona looks like two different species 'stuck' together.
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Post by Emma Turner » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:48 am

Drool!
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Post by avant » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:59 am

I'm still drooling over it since i first saw the photos yesterday :lol:
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Post by Jim Powers » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:22 am

Very cool!!
Of course I have two other species ahead of it on my wish list.
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Post by Gary Herring » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:30 am

Nice 8)

Definately simular to Emma's S. Balteata in that 'half and half' kind of way.

Wonder what purpose those extreme markings serve in their natural habitats? Must be some reason for them to have evolved that way. Hmmmm.... front halfs more camoflaged becouse it rests half in / half out of caves or tight spaces, perhaps?

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Post by Graeme Robson » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:22 am

Or it's a 'male' showing a strong breeding colouration. All in all. It's amazing!
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Post by HylaChristine » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:18 pm

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This one is sweet!
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Post by Lo@chNessMonster » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:38 pm

Are some of them weather loaches? Some of them definatly had the body style, but I'm sure thats not all you can go on.

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Post by andyroo » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:14 pm

What a fantastic critter !

Now that this is the new must-have how is the industry at the first-world consumer-end going to ensure sustainable harvest/availibility? I'm sure the national regulator in its home region won't carry that potato.

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Post by mikev » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:48 pm

One weird fish (drooling a bit)...I wonder if the head and the dorsal are as they supposed to be or damaged?

But I'm drooling even more about

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(from the same thread)...a half-erased hillstream-like pattern... 8)
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Post by Graeme Robson » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:00 pm

mikev wrote:One weird fish (drooling a bit)...I wonder if the head and the dorsal are as they supposed to be or damaged?

But I'm drooling even more about

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(from the same thread)...a half-erased hillstream-like pattern... 8)
Yeah this are Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei. Lovely peaceful loaches which are 'vast' in appearance and distribution. I keep 3 of these chaps.
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Post by Emma Turner » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:01 pm

Likely that we won't be allowed to import the Schisturas into the UK, due to the recent legislations. :cry:

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Post by Gary Herring » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:11 pm

Oh yeah, I keep fogetting about that. Gutting really. Just as well I got the S. Nicholsi in time then.
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