ID - Schistura??

Bubblewrap · Post by **Bubblewrap** » Fri May 22, 2009 4:58 am

Hi, I've spent quite some time trying to find which loach this is. I guess it is a Schistura, but which one? Can you tell me?

mickthefish · Post by **mickthefish** » Fri May 22, 2009 5:51 am

it's a cf balteata. i have a few of them and what you'll find is they are not sociable with each other but not to badly damaging each other.
they have been bred by a member of this site.

mick

Mad Duff · Post by **Mad Duff** » Fri May 22, 2009 7:31 am

A local shop near me got a shipment of the cf balteata in two days ago, they put them in a 2ft x 1ft x 1ft tank and by the next morning they had literally ripped apart 10 juvenile (2") bristlenoses and started on each other.

5 have since died with nasty wounds and not one of the remaining 15 fish have a full fin.

Mine were nasty with each other when I had them but this is a bit extreme

mickthefish · Post by **mickthefish** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:11 am

forgot to mention this in the last post i did, BAS of Bolton have balteata in but whatwas slightly different from the normal fish was it had similar dorsal markings as the cf ?.
poss regional variant.

mick

janma · Post by **janma** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:47 pm

I have two, which appear to me male & female. They have shown no bigger aggression towards each other or other fish, yet. Even a Sewellia fry has survived them. But after reading the comments above they will be in closer inspection.

Bubblewrap · Post by **Bubblewrap** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:41 pm

It indeed looks alot like cf balteata, thanks.

Untill now I have not seen any agression between them or towards other fish, but I will keep an eye on them.

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