the mean fish

[newshound]

man are eos mean little buggers!
kick the crap out of larger Modesta all the time.
Tonight I saw a eos do a weird thing on a flat rock. It was trying to bite it or something on the flat surface. Perhaps grabbing a bit of algae growing on it? The eos loaches in my tank love to tear apart my plants. One bite does it all.
The rock was tougher than the loach

[Icewall42]

Oh I've heard that Botia Eos is a really aggressive loach, but I've never been able to obtain one. How big is your modesta?

I've had some mean fish, though probably not as mean as your eos. I had a very fiesty skunk loach that wouldn't let anything near his resting spot. I've also had a large red tail shark that was more grumpy than anything. And my biggest modesta was beating up his companion modesta over a hiding place under a log before I buried that log in the sand.

[Vancmann]

Of all the botias I have had, the eos is by far the most agressive towards other loaches. There was one exception of a Modesta. One of my first modestas (now dead from skinny) was the tank ruler of a tank but never messed with the boss eos. One day though, the Modesta was grumpy and retaliated. They fought for an hour then the Eos 80-90% the size of the modesta had to retreat. IMO, although the Eos was more agressive and ill tempered, against this modesta he was no match.

[newshound]

I have had to remove all 4 of my skunks from my eos/modesta tank because they were taking a beating. Interesting that the yoyos i have don't seem to mind the aggression of the tank.
I think the eos are mature but I obtained them from someone else so I don't know. They are 4 inches in length.
Tuff buggers