Imagine a Clown that is basically yellow instead of pinkish, and has 8-9 thinner black vertical stripes and you've pretty much got Botia Dario. I'll try to find a nice picture.
Are you sure the queen loaches aren't mistakenly called queens? The pic you posted looks to me like the tiger loach picture in one of my fish books. I have actually been looking for them as they don't grow as large as the clowns.
Deb
Unfortunately, such is the way with common names. Many species have several common names. The name I used to see Botia dario under most often was "Banded Botia" for example - all the same fish.
according to my lfs they were queen botias, I researched and found them on loaches.com as queen under the botia species . The "queen's" is merely what I refer to them as
AWESOME WEBSITE!!! I LOVE LOACHES! I guess there are so many of them. The book I had said Tiger Loaches and the Loach site says Queen. So I guess my book was wrong. Anyway, they are adorable. I want some. I really love my liitle Loachy, Spanky and Jarr Jarr!! Keep us up tp date on their antics.
Debo