Other loach photos

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Armadillo

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.

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.

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!!!

And here's one of the loaches playing in their favorite floating plant.

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.

EDIT: broken links have been removed

 

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

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.

 

Just thought I would share a pic or 2 of my new loaches ( I thought at first they were some sort of strange plec )

 

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:



Just chillin' on the driftwood:

 

My Botia histrionica

 

Pictures of my Dwarf Chain Loaches

Six Sids swiftly swimming.

 

Squeee

 

Here's my sumo. Love this guy. So much personality

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Popcorn my dojo loach and smokey my kuliI loach

 

Here is Dyson and Kirby with two guys who haven't grown yet.
Why do they sometimes stay verticle? Any ideas?

 

Botia dario

 

My last picture of Kirby & Dyson together. Kirby past a few weeks ago. Not sure why. Her ( I'm guessI g) stomach was very bloated. I sad for Dyson his swimming partner is gone. They were about 7 inches long in a 55 gal tank

 

So I heard you like sumos.


How about those sumos..

 

A few of my Red Tail Botia Loaches taking a break.

 

3 Sumos added to my 40g, they need names though.

 

one of my new Red Tailed Squirrel loaches. Hopefully they teach me to properly spell "Squirrel".

 

Well many small pond snail have perished to make it happen but I think one of my Red Tailed Squirrel girls is egged up.


My god I'm bad at photos.

 

Here is my one and only loach named Charlie he is a splendid loach

 

I got a picture of "crime loach". It stopped growing quite a while ago.
I though it was a banned weather loach hence "crime loach" but it isn't big enough and it is not spotted.