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grizzlyone
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They call me Mr. Loach

Post by grizzlyone » Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:36 pm

Walked into one of the local Pet Stores and one of the Fish guys hollered, its the Loach Guy and was pretty excited. He had gotten in about 40 hilstreams. I was hoping they were my favorities, but no luck, but I'm getting closer.

Here's a link to the album with the bad pictures, and there was also a contaminant in the striatas he got, which I think is a zodiac loach. He has pink on his mouth and I'm waiting for him to destress to take some more pics.

Here's a link to the album on putfile.

http://www.putfile.com/fishface1/images/123382

There's about 40 more in there and if they hadn't wanted $4.99 each, I would have bought a few more.


Cheers,

Kevin
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Mark in Vancouver
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Post by Mark in Vancouver » Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:39 pm

That's something I bet a lot of us have experienced. When the fish clerks know you are the loach guy or gal, you know you have a problem! It happened to me!

Nice kind of reputation to go with.
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Post by helen nightingale » Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:43 am

last time i went to Emma's, the man how served me asked "are you one of them loach people?"

nowhere else round here really has laoches worth buying :roll:
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Post by grizzlyone » Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:48 am

pictures are fixed now...
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Post by revhead » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:20 am

Mark in Vancouver wrote:When the fish clerks know you are the loach guy or gal, you know you have a problem!
I think exactly the opposite applies to me. If my lfs gets some or even sees some nice loaches or L number Loriicardae on their list, they ring me at home & bet on how long it will take me to get my ### on down there...lol.
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Post by Graeme Robson » Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:51 am

I'm glad you warned us about the picture quality Kevin! It's hard to give an accurate identification but they do look similar to some Erromyzon sinensis or Vanmanenia sp's.
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Post by Jim Powers » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:34 pm

Notice the lower lobe on the hillstream's tail fin. Its all black.
That would indicate Homaloptera zollingeri.
Take a good look at it before you put it into your tank. You probably won't get a good look at it for quite some time. They tend to be VERY shy.
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Post by grizzlyone » Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:02 pm

The loner has colored up and I'm pretty sure that he is a Nemacheilus Masyai. I wish I could get a couple more of these guys...


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Post by Mike Ophir » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:00 pm

Haha everyone greets me as the "Loach guy" in the shops around here. Good times!

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