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Old October 27th, 2007  
Fish Master
 
Other loach photos

Please use this topic to post your other Loach photos (i.e. species that do not have their own sub-forum). I'll leave it stickied so it appears at the top of the posts.

Please use your own photos, and not material from the internet.

Please post your photos as attachments, rather than links.

While your compliments on the photos are really appreciated, text-only posts will be removed after a while to keep the gallery pictures-only. If there is a discussion you do not want to loose, please start it again in a separate thread.

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Old October 27th, 2007  
Fish Master
 
My 5 brand new dwarf loaches. They live in my 29G.

I bought them so they could eat my snail and so far it's snails 1 - loaches 0. They haven't as much as LOOKED at the snails. The first picture actually has a snail in the shot which they are, of course, blissfully ignoring.
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Old October 27th, 2007  
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And this just about blew my mind. The loaches are schooling with ... the otos. It's really fab to watch. Very difficult to get a good shot of it, so I've only got two half-decent pictures of this behaviour.
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Old November 13th, 2007  
Fish Master
 
Here's more of my dwarf loaches. It's really funny to watch them 'school' with anything that moves. They've taken up to schooling with my mollies now.

Oh, and on the first two pictures, on the fake starfish, that's one of their snail victims. Hurray! Snail infestation over!!!
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Old November 13th, 2007  
Fish Master
 
And here's one of the loaches playing in their favorite floating plant.
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Old December 19th, 2007  
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OK, then. Feeling lonely here. Carol? Got any good pix of other loaches pictures?

Anyways, here's some more of my dwarf loaches schooling with my otos.
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Old December 19th, 2007  
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OK, then. Feeling lonely here. Carol? Got any good pix of other loaches pictures?
You know better than to ask
1) First is a not real good picture of Botia kubotai (commonly called Angelicus Loaches)
2 & 3)
Botia striata (commonly called zebra Loaches)
4 & 5)
Beaufortia kweichowensis just one kind of Hillstream Loaches
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Old December 19th, 2007  
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And last but not least "The Brat Pack" Yasuhikotakia morleti ( commonly known as Skunk loaches) Skunks wrestle and chase each other and aren't good tank mates for most fish. but in a species tank I love them.
1) is when I first got them 2 yrs ago so tiny snails were a challenge.
2 & 3) they were about a year old.
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Old April 10th, 2009  
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Botia Striata:

There are eight of these guys in the tank but it's about impossible to get them all in 1 shot at one time. They usually stick 3-4 to a pack and only all get together when they huddle up after dinner. These guys are insanely funny nearly 100% of the time. Absolutely love em.


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Old September 16th, 2009  
Fish Addict
 
Just thought I would share a pic or 2 of my new loaches ( I thought at first they were some sort of strange plec )
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Old September 16th, 2009  
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Beautiful little Hillstream Loaches. They look to be Gastromyzon sp.
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Old October 26th, 2009  
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I just picked up 5 new kubotai at the LFS Saturday. I've never seen them available locally, but they came along with the yoyo's in a recent shipment. Best part was, they were the same price, $3.99 each. I paid twice that plus shipping for the first group of 5. I was hoping they'd encourage the larger ones to come out more often, but so far it isn't working. At least the new ones are more active/visible, though that may change after they settle in. The new arrivals are just a bit more than half the size of the older group, hardly showing any spots yet. I like they way they become more attractively patterned as they grow, just wish I saw them more often. Here's a couple pics of the new arrivals.
Hoping for leftovers on the sponges:
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Just chillin' on the driftwood:
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Old August 29th, 2010  
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My Botia histrionica
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