|
The Burmese Border Loach, Angelicus Loach, or Polka Dot Loach (Botia kubotai) is a recently described species that quickly becomes a popular tropical fish in freshwater aquarium. In 2002, some fish collectors, working in western Thailand, began to explore into Myanmar (Burma) area from the Three Pagodas Pass Thai-Myanmar border to look for new fish for aquarium trade. This is one of several species discovered and hence the origin of the common name Burmese Border Loach. Its scientific name came from Katsuma Kubota of an aquarium export company in Thailand who first purchased the catch and sent them for identification. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria Acoelomorpha Orthonectida Rhombozoa Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ...
Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascideiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with...
Orders See text The Actinopterygii are the ray-finned fish. ...
Families Suborder Cobitoidea Balitoridae (hillstream loaches) Catostomidae (suckers) Cobitidae (loaches) Gyrinocheilidae (algae eaters) Suborder Cyprinoidea Cyprinidae (carps and minnows) The Cypriniformes are an order of ray-finned fish, including the minnows and some related families. ...
Loaches are freshwater fishes of the family Cobitidae, small bottom-dwelling fishes with a flattened ventral profile. ...
Species Botia is a genus of freshwater fish in the Loach family (Cobitidae). ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ...
2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ...
Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus, the most abundant fish species in the world. ...
For the village on the Isle of Wight, see Freshwater, Isle of Wight. ...
A 335,000 US gallon (1. ...
2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Three Pagodas Pass (Thai พระเจดีย์สามองค์, pronounced Phra Chedi Sam Ong) is a pass through the Bilauktaung Mountains on the border between Thailand and Myanmar, at an altitude of 282 metres. ...
The fish, a bottom feeder, is found in Salween River system. It could grow up to 15 cm but most tends to be smaller at around 10 cm. It has gold, black, and grey colors arranged in pattern that varies greatly depending the fish growth. Juvenile fish at about 2.5 cm are very similar to Botia histrionica. It has yellow body with only black vertical bands. Typically around this size grey dots begin to appear on the black bands together with a middle horizontal bar joining the bands. At about 5 cm, top and bottom part of the vertical bands start to merge producing pattern of big yellow ovals along the body. More grey dots continue to appear as fish grows. The Salween River (also spelt Salwin, a. ...
This fish, like most other loach species, should be kept in group in aquarium. Suitable water parameters are 25 - 30 °C, pH 6.5 to 6.9 dGH to 8.0. Lots of hiding places should also be provided. Newly purchased, it is a good idea to treat them for internal parasite, a very common problem for wild caught bottom feeder fishes. The degree Celsius (°C) is a unit of temperature named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed a similar system in 1742. ...
pH is a measure of the activity of hydrogen ions (H+) in a solution and, therefore, its acidity or alkalinity. ...
The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
A parasite is an organism that lives in or on the living tissue of a host organism at the expense of that host. ...
Links to more photos: Loaches.com
See also
A vast number of species of fish have been successfully kept in the home aquarium. ...
References - "Botia kubotai". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. March 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.
|
Feeds |
Contact