Oleg Mihajlov from Ivanovo in Russia. now claims to have created a hybrid of clown and yo yo loaches. Any opinions?

have to say not something I am to happy about while i would always agree to captive breeding to preserve wild stock.

but now we face being sold these as new species and yet a another possible tank buster sold as something else!

totally agree with you mickey, we should be preserving the species instead of coming up with "frankensteins monsters", why would anyone want to do this
Seamus

Hybrids very annoying for a start, when you have a fish that may be a hybrid of a hybrid and you don't know what to be doing with it.

would agree with preserving rather than mixing and messing.

talking about preserving, Bala sharks. They are endangered in the wild, due to the aquarium hobby, over fishing, forest fires etc. they seem to get bought in, in huge amounts in some shops at a size of about 10cm sometimes little bigger...I wonder do customers be told of their eventual size(some sources say 35cm), and that they are happiest in groups??