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I went on a stock buying spree!

Posted By: Martin Thoene <martin.thoene@lakenheath.af.mil>
Date: Monday, 2 August 1999, at 6:34 p.m.

I took a trip down to North London at the weekend, and came back with several new fish.

At one venue I bought firstly a Chinese Botia sp. (possibly pulchra). It looks very like the fish in the pic I submitted that is at the bottom of the Botia superciliaris section of the Species List. They had B. superciliaris in the same tank as these (they had a lot), but I'm utterly convinced they're not the same fish, being far longer in the body, and with the strong markings like the pic. They were actually in the coldwater section, but as our temps are currently in the 80's, I put him in with my modestas, darios, and lone superciliaris. He nee