Pics of my new Blue botia

[Bderick67]

Picked these guys up yesterday, my 72 gallon planted is slowly turning into a loach tank. Other tankmates include 4 clowns, 3 yoyos, 4 red bay snooks, lots of mollies and a couple of gouramis

 

[santoury]

Sweet pickup! They get monster!

Fatten up those clowns and snooks

 

[H3D]

Nice! Hope you are ready to deal with its agression. Good luck.

 

[ewurm]

Hope you don't mind if it loses it's unnatural color. I think they are great fish anyway.

 

[is300zx]

yeah blue botias are dyed.

 

[Bderick67]

yeah blue botias are dyed.

Well that sucks, would not have bought them if I had known, I don't care if the loose color I just don't like to support that sort of thing. Sad thing is that I researched cause I was looking for another large type loach but completely missed the part about the possiblity of them being dyed.

 

[is300zx]

http://www.loaches.com/species-index/yasuhikotakia-modesta

 

[Bderick67]

http://www.loaches.com/species-index/yasuhikotakia-modesta

That was the page I pulled up for research, but unfortunatly I only skimmed over the notes.

 

[Euge]

i always heard that they were naturally blue. i guess you learn something new everyday

 

[H3D]

yeah blue botias are dyed.

Not all blue botia are dyed. From the pics these do not appear to have been.