A local fish shop that we're friendly with has just got a new batch of kuhlis in and found something in with them that is most definately NOT a kuhli.
They don't have a clue waht it is, although it's clearly a loach of some sort so as they know that oddballs are my 'thing' they asked me to try to identify it.
Now I've already managed to identify it after two hours poring over books and website but I though I'd set a change to all you loach-heads on TFF!
This is an ultra-rare import, usually only imported by accident in batches of wild-caught kuhlis.
It's about the size of a kuhli, but dark brown to black. It has a single bright orange stripe that runs the length of it's body along the spine.
The tail is very forked and the dorsal fin runs along the spine like an eel's
Can anyone name it?
Photo to follow if the description isn't enough!
They don't have a clue waht it is, although it's clearly a loach of some sort so as they know that oddballs are my 'thing' they asked me to try to identify it.
Now I've already managed to identify it after two hours poring over books and website but I though I'd set a change to all you loach-heads on TFF!
This is an ultra-rare import, usually only imported by accident in batches of wild-caught kuhlis.
It's about the size of a kuhli, but dark brown to black. It has a single bright orange stripe that runs the length of it's body along the spine.
The tail is very forked and the dorsal fin runs along the spine like an eel's
Can anyone name it?
Photo to follow if the description isn't enough!
/www.loaches.com/species_pages/vaill...lla_maassi.html
that's a tough competitor with your khulis Feeshy; sexy!
Reckon I'd have any luck getting any? I doubt it, they sure are drop dead gorgeous though 
