Loaches Online Forum

Dont count your petsmart out. I have found contaminants at Petsmart and they have no clue what they are. One time I was there and I got a loach (cant recall what it is at moment lol) and they had no clue what it was so they gave me it lol. Anytime you get groups of fish in there is a chance for a co...

Need to figure out what the cloudiness is. Is it a Bacteria Blood or Algae bloom. In my 150 gallon tank I had trouble with cloudiness and it did not look green at all as an algae bloom you would think would but when i took a filter out of my overflow and rung it out in the sink the water was green. ...

My kuhlis which I have a few types all come out at all times of the day be it day light or darkness. I believe that the main key into having them come out of hiding most often is to have more than a couple of them. I have at minimum of five of whatever type is be in my tanks. They just feel more com...

Thank you very much for your reply. Nice to just have someone think the same thing.

I was around a Petsmart today and so i went in and they had the usual fish but suddenly i spotted in their Pangio oblonga tank a contaminant that they had not a clue what it was. I told them I would take it and any others they had but to my sadness only had the one. I believe it is Nemachelius plati...

If you cant tell color or something with fins or something you want to know about the loach that may help just ask and i will check. The pictures are not that great and the fish are showing up faded out a bit too. The dorsal fins have some darker spots than surrounding color just like the body. Ther...

Heres two really bad pictures of the loaches. They were like i said in the horse face loach tank but their was horse face loaches same size and they looked like horse face loaches and not like these so.. here you are if it helps at all. Sorry for bad quality as didnt have my camera set up that good....

Hmm Emma you could be onto something with the Kottelatlimia pristes cause they do look similar to that from memory and are rather small. I am going to have my girlfriend when she comes up this evening stop and grab four or so of them. I will attempt to take pics from a q-tank of them and put them on...

Anyone been in a PetSmart lately? In the horse face loach tanks that they have they have young loaches mixed ((by mistake i am sure)) that are enlongated body being greenish brown in color and mottled. Almost looked like the Moosefaced loach, Somileptes gongota, but i am not sure. I wish someone els...

I am going to be starting a 150 gallon tank fairly soon and am wanting a nice dark substrate to bring out the colors of my fish. I know that in a dark substrate such as the one i am questioning i may not see my bottom fish as easy but i dont mind that long as they are happy. I am wanting to know iif...