BTW - the 14-15" CL's that were in that LFS that I previously described, were in a display tank with a large adult Chili Red Asian aro, so they got a lot of shrimp, fish etc over the 15 years that he had them. They were not slender by any means.
I don't want to appear picky here because that is a magnificent specimen of a clown loach. But when measuring fish, as a keen angler, we measure from nose to fork for "true" length, so that beauty is 12"....right? And not 14". To be fair i'd call it 14" and be done with it because whatever it is, 12 or 14, most of us will never have such a thing of beauty in our tanks.
When measuring fish their are several methods that one can use, standard length (SL), total length (TL), and even fork length (FL), are routinely used by State & Provincial fisheries as well as in commercial aquaculture circles.I don't want to appear picky here because that is a magnificent specimen of a clown loach. But when measuring fish, as a keen angler, we measure from nose to fork for "true" length, so that beauty is 12"....right? And not 14". To be fair i'd call it 14" and be done with it because whatever it is, 12 or 14, most of us will never have such a thing of beauty in our tanks.