Loach Identification

[Steve P]

The pet store told me that it was a horsefaced loach but after looking at the site here, it does not resemble the horsfaced loach at all. It is similiar to a dwarf loach but the stripe on each side from the tail up through the eyes is not connected by the checkerbox pattern on top. I have not been able to find anything similair on this site or any others. Anyoen have an idea? I have a picture I can send if someone can help. Thanks, Steve

 

[smithrc]

post the picture up in the Member's Aquarium and Fish Pictures section and put a link in here - We'll help you out no problem

 

[Steve P]

I only have the picture on my hard drive no Internet url to host it to. Thanks, Steve

 

[Steve P]

I can't get the post to work but here is alink to the pic

http/www.imagehosting.us/imagehosting/sh....jpg/?id=146098

Thanks again, Steve

 

[mwm]

Thats some type of cory cat

 

[Leslie]

That doesn't look like a Loach at all to me. I'd say it's a Skunk Cory.

 

[Steve P]

Thanks, I looked up Skunk Cory and it looks like I have a match.

 

[LoachLover]

Not a loach, it's a cory

 

[smithrc]

here ya go... slightly better size

Anyway... Its a corydoras catfish...

a corydoras arcuatus.

>> PlanetCatfish Link <<

 

[LoachLover]

Wait a minute this just sunk in, he told you it was a horsefaced loach? Holy crud, is that guy just insane?

 

[Steve P]

What's worse is I didn't know any better and went to a different pet store today to try and order a replacement for one that died. I have to call back in the morning and tell him I ordered the wrong thing.

 

[LoachLover]

What's worse is I didn't know any better and went to a different pet store today to try and order a replacement for one that died. I have to call back in the morning and tell him I ordered the wrong thing.

Hey you're a newbie, it happens.

 

[mwm]

yah stuff like that happens, it did to me atleast

 

[LoachLover]

But it is a nice looking fish, so nothing to really worry about.