has yet to be bred in captivity. Skunk botia require a high-protein diet. Live foods are best. Frozen foods, such as bloodworms, brine shrimp, daphnia, krill, and tubifex worms are well liked. They do like an occasional flake food, as well as various crushed wafer foods. Their nose and body shape is naturally evolved to consume mollusks and crustaceans; all species of botia will readily hunt and consume any species of pond snail, baby crabs, or small shrimps (such as Amano shrimp Or cherry shrimp) that are present in their aquarium, provided it is small enough. This includes predatory and cannibalistic snails, such as the assassin snail. List of freshwater aquarium fish species References Riehl R, Baensch HA (1996) Aquarium Atlas. Vol 1. pg: 368. Botiidae Fish of Southeast Asia Fish of Thailand Fish described in 1885 Taxa named by Gilbert Tirant