Loach Identity

[o0ric0o]

could someone please identify this loach sorry for the pic quality i have a crappy camera

 

[Camad727]

could someone please identify this loach sorry for the pic quality i have a crappy camera

looks like a polka dot loach. maybe a colour variation of the common polka dot loach

 

[stang1]

Looks like a Chain Loach but not 100% sure.

Chain Loach

 

[o0ric0o]

it doesnt have the blueish tinged spots like the polka dot tho thats why im struggling to identify it.

Looks like a Chain Loach but not 100% sure.

Chain Loach

i thought that but his body isnt silver it is yellowish

im thinking maybe a hibreed or somthing.

 

[stang1]

Have a look through the other Loaches on the site I gave a link to, might help you ID him.

 

[o0ric0o]

on this site

http/www.loaches.com/species-index/picto...er-body-striped

his markings are exactly the same as the middle black and white picture. but on clicking that none of them look anything like him

so frustrating

thanx for the help tho.

 

[The-Wolf]

botia rostrata

 

[Saedcantas]

Perhaps Botia kubotai ?

Loaches online - B. kubotai


How much did it cost you?
Y. sidthimunki is tempting me, but you'd know it if you'd spent a tenner on a tiny tiny loach! lol

 

[o0ric0o]

i didnt pay anything for him

 

[Davo86]

from the pic i'd say Botia Kubotai

 

[Saedcantas]

Yeah, looking at my Y. sidthimunki the overall build of the fish just isnt right for it and the black areas are too pronounced really.

 

[loachman]

b. kubotai.

These fish change appearance alot as they grow. The dead give-away is the vertical bands mixed with the connected lateral line/mid-line. As they mature, the light areas fill in and the fish becomes mostly black with golden spots. The mid-line is where the filling in begins.

The other loaches with similar body shapes, like yoyos, histrionica and rostra don't have the horizontal connection along the lateral line. Their markings run vertically.

Y. sidthimunki is essentially white on the underbelly. The chain pattern exists on the upper 1/2 of the fish, with sometimes just a little extending below the mid-line.

 

[PRW1988]

looks like a yoyo loach.

 

[MermaidMel]

I thought a pygmy chain loach

 

[o0ric0o]

b. kubotai

These fish change appearance alot as they grow. The dead give-away is the vertical bands mixed with the connected lateral line/mid-line. As they mature, the light areas fill in and the fish becomes mostly black with golden spots. The mid-line is where the filling in begins.

The other loaches with similar body shapes, like yoyos, histrionica and rostra don't have the horizontal connection along the lateral line. Their markings run vertically.

Y. sidthimunki is essentially white on the underbelly. The chain pattern exists on the upper 1/2 of the fish, with sometimes just a little extending below the mid-line.

yes he has the virtical lines andthey are linked with a horizontal line also mid body as you can see, he's about 2inch in lengh.
im just confused with the golden spots part of your post, hes golden allover apart from the chain like black markings. he also dosnt have the silvery purple spot's like on the b. kubotai .