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Re: The chestnut, again!

Posted By: Anne Webel <anne.webel@village.uunet.be>
Date: Saturday, 4 September 1999, at 5:21 a.m.

In Response To: Re: The chestnut, again! (Martin Thoene)

Hi,

Has anyone else got the "Aquarium Fishes of the World" by Axelrod? When going first through it, my reaction was that they'd put the wrong picture against the Botia Almorha (Gray or Almora Loach) because it looks like a YoYo. Now after all this discussion, I just don't know.

I've got four 'yoyo' and none of them have the same depth of colouration. They range from a 'black on real silver' to a 'greyish black on grey'. So are they all the same species? The shapes all look the same, pointed nose, long, hardly arched body, lovely set of 'whiskers' and they play together. But what criteria can we really go by? As Martin will testify, they are not the most easy of creatures to catch, so please don't say 'count the .... '!

Or is it just because their range is so great (Pakistan, northern India) that these variations are regional and there truly is only one fish with yoyo markings?

Anne
 

Messages In This Thread

• Book Review.....Ornamental Aquarium Fish of India.
  Martin Thoene -- Wednesday, 1 September 1999, at 10:56 p.m.
  • Thanks Martin!
    Hans -- Thursday, 2 September 1999, at 3:15 a.m.
    • Re: Thanks Martin!
      Martin Thoene -- Thursday, 2 September 1999, at 5:41 p.m.
      • The chestnut, again!
        Hans -- Friday, 3 September 1999, at 2:36 a.m.
        • Re: The chestnut, again!
          Martin Thoene -- Friday, 3 September 1999, at 11:07 p.m.
          • Re: The chestnut, again!
            Anne Webel -- Saturday, 4 September 1999, at 5:21 a.m.
            • Re: The chestnut, again!
              Vicky -- Saturday, 4 September 1999, at 11:01 a.m.
            • Re: The chestnut, again!
              Michael Ophir -- Saturday, 4 September 1999, at 11:15 a.m.
              • Re: The chestnut, again!
                Hans -- Sunday, 5 September 1999, at 7:36 a.m.
      • Re: lohachata/rostrata
        Dave Guest -- Friday, 3 September 1999, at 3:04 p.m.
  • Great write-up .... that's on the Xmas wish-list n/m
    Steve Burton -- Thursday, 2 September 1999, at 4:14 a.m.
  • Re: Book Review.....Ornamental Aquarium Fish of India.
    JD -- Thursday, 2 September 1999, at 7:53 a.m.
    • Yes JD it's a newbie.............................n/m
      Martin Thoene -- Sunday, 5 September 1999, at 10:26 p.m.
  • Re: Book Review.....Ornamental Aquarium Fish of India.
    Dave Guest -- Thursday, 2 September 1999, at 2:38 p.m.
  • Nice work Martin! n/m
    Michael Ophir -- Thursday, 2 September 1999, at 3:07 p.m.