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Dabula
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BFinley
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| Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure...  7/1/2010, 4:27 pm | |
| I have seen some LFS call it a yoyo loach but that could be wrong.I'm not good with those. | |
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Holey Rock of Texas
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Location : Dallas, TX
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/1/2010, 4:39 pm | |
| yeah i call them yoyo loaches or zebra loaches. i have a few and i love them. | |
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istrober
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/1/2010, 4:46 pm | |
| Nice good looking fish!!  | |
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Guest
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/1/2010, 7:40 pm | |
| Not yoyo, it is a botia of some sort though. With yoyo's you can see yoyo spelled out on their markings hence the name.
Tiger loach possibly? There is a large website I found one time with pics of all the different loaches on it........ |
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jeaninel
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/1/2010, 7:59 pm | |
| Looks closest to Yo-Yo loach (Botia Almorhae) but usually the markings are a little more defined and easier to see the "Y -O" spelled out. It's definitely in the Botia family. Here's a good website with all the loaches. Click on a name to see pics.
http://www.loaches.com/species-index/species-index | |
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Guest
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/1/2010, 8:07 pm | |
| That's the site!
Rough guess on age and length will also help with the ID
I really don't think he is a yoyo, I just caught and inspected a bunch of them recently......
I think we have a few that look like him in the shop, I will see what kind they are and that may help you ID yours....... |
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Dabula
Staff Sergeant
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Location : Fort Worth
Favorite Fish: : Any and All Peacock Cichlids
| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/1/2010, 8:13 pm | |
| THX, I don't know his age though, as he was a part of a 110G purchase. I would say he's at least 4". I checked that site and none of the botias there matched him. I am sure you know more about this species though, and wanted to ask if they were even possible to breed any botia in aquariums. I know clown loaches are not without the use of injections or steriods... | |
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Guest
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/1/2010, 8:26 pm | |
| Quite a few of them breed in tanks. |
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MarkM
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/1/2010, 10:00 pm | |
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Trippz
Private First Class
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Location : Crooked-I Nukkas
Favorite Fish: : Cichlids of course!!
| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/1/2010, 10:32 pm | |
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Dabula
Staff Sergeant
Posts : 176
Location : Fort Worth
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/1/2010, 10:52 pm | |
|  FO SHO, I just saw the G, right between the pelvic and anal fins... Nauwce! | |
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typicaltony
Master Sergeant
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Location : Dallas, TX
| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/2/2010, 12:04 am | |
| - Fern wrote:
- Quite a few of them breed in tanks.
From what i heard a majority of Botias do not breed in captivity unless you can prove me wrong.. Looks like a yoyo to me but with a weird pattern, i have a yoyo that does not spell out yoyo on it's side, more like yoy... not all yoyo will have 'yoyo' spelled out on the side  Thats pic of a yoyo on loaches.com and there are no 'yoyo' on it | |
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Holey Rock of Texas
Admin
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Location : Dallas, TX
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/2/2010, 12:15 am | |
| i know the clowns do not but maybe the yoyo's do. i am going to have to do some research tomorrow. | |
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Joe Reborn
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/2/2010, 1:33 am | |
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FO SHO, I just saw the G, right between the pelvic and anal fins...
Nauwce! i guess you need to name him G-Money then lol!!! | |
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Trippz
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Location : Crooked-I Nukkas
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/2/2010, 9:59 am | |
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khrister
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/2/2010, 10:04 am | |
| Maybe this one?!
http://www.loaches.com/species-index/photos/b/botia_almorhae_20.jpg/view
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deadman
Corporal/Specialist
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/2/2010, 10:13 am | |
| the common name is leopard loach. | |
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Dabula
Staff Sergeant
Posts : 176
Location : Fort Worth
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/2/2010, 11:09 am | |
| - khrister wrote:
- Maybe this one?!
http://www.loaches.com/species-index/photos/b/botia_almorhae_20.jpg/view
- deadman wrote:
- the common name is leopard loach.
Awesome you guys found him! W2G, and Thanks!!! | |
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typicaltony
Master Sergeant
Posts : 274
Location : Dallas, TX
| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/2/2010, 12:02 pm | |
| - deadman wrote:
- the common name is leopard loach.
leopard loach is commonly used for the kuhli loach not this kind.. | |
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CajunGator
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| | Subject: Re: Not Exactly Sure... 7/2/2010, 2:48 pm | |
| All in All , still very nice fish!!! | |
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