Angelicus Botia Loach

[LoachLover]

They are called a burmese loach around here

 

[bunjiweb]

Their common name is Polkadot loach everywhere I have seen them and in books - Angelic loach is certainly not the right term for them as this denotes darker colour with lighter spots... and as for "Golden Burmese Border Loach"... do your local fish shops make up the names? lol..

Ben

 

[LoachLover]

Well they have a lot of names. The proper name is....Botia Kubotai

 

[bunjiweb]

Yes, that is their scientific name...

Ben

 

[LoachLover]

Well sometimes it's just easier to go by the scientific name because this loach has so many common names it's rediculous

 

[G_Sharky]

golden burmese border loach was the name we got from the importer/breeder...mine actually has that golden yellow, but I was wonderin if that would turn into a flat yellow or almost brown cause, we have big burmese border loach that don't look as bright and colorful as the small once the once I have right now....

 

[LoachLover]

the pattern on the can vary quite a bit. If you go to loaches.com and look them up it's amazing how many different patterns you see on one species of fish.

 

[bshockstubb]

Great looking loach~ BTW how maany loaches do you have?

 

[LoachLover]

Great looking loach~ BTW how maany loaches do you have?

To be honest I've lost count. Especially when they bury themselves in the sand and they vanish for weeks on end

 

[mbbowman]

YAY for Botia Kubotai! I only have one (see my avatar)...I wish I could have 3 but my tank is only 38 gallons so I'm not sure it could support more than one.

Anyone?

 

[Barracuda518]

YAY for Botia Kubotai! I only have one (see my avatar)...I wish I could have 3 but my tank is only 38 gallons so I'm not sure it could support more than one.

Anyone?

What else do you have in the tank?

 

[x-fish]

nice

 

[mbbowman]

What else do you have in the tank?

See my signiture. I just can't imagine 3 fully grown, 6" loaches would be happy in my sized tank...there's just not enough space!


Re the "dwarf" mollies I speak of:

They were from my neighbor's tank and are very inbred. I've had these mollies since March and no one breeds and no one grows longer than 3/4 of an inch. Well, they breed, but we never get babies! Two are very pretty (black and white) and very healthy so they'll stay. The two others are developing orange tumors so they will be cichlid food shortly (we have a 75 gallon at work full of them). The tumors only appear on the yellow and white mollies, never on the black and white, and my neighbor has had the same problem for the last 3 or so generations. No other fish ever develop them, so we doubt it's something other fish can catch. The tumors dont seem to bother the fish but as they age they get pretty unsightly. We just assumed that it was a genetic issue because they've been inbred in his tank for so long. The one time my larger yellow and white had babies there were only 2 that I saw and both were missing an eye. Time for some new blood. As for the two dwarf ones I'm keeping...they were so happy when I added the tetras they started grouping with them; tetras don't seem to mind either . They are welcome to stay...afterall, how can I discriminate against the horizontally challenged when I am, myself, vertically challenged .