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Feeding time in with the Pangio sp is never dull. I think there are around 35 in total including Pangio kuhlii , Pangio oblonga , Pangio sp and Pangio anguillaris. Few pictures of them last night, it gets to the stage its just a mess of tails and heads-a sight to watch






I love the markings on this guy






Ashleigh

Oh Wow!!

Superb pictures Ashleigh! Pangio's are one of my personal favorites.

Great Pictures

Fantastic pictures! I miss having pangio. Those P. oblonga are chunky!

Thanks for the comments

Thes have to one of my favourites out of the smaller loach species, very entretaining to watch. The Pangio kuhlii in particular are as bold as brass-funny to watch them all swarm over their food at dinner time, you would think they were starved the way the get on
always willing to pose for the camera as well, makes my life 10 times eaiser

Ashleigh

They look great Ashleigh,lots of fun to watch

Can you tell me a bit about their set up,size,decor,tankmates etc.

Thanks JAH

Yes, certinally;

Tank is 4 x 1.5 x 1.25, filtered by an aquapro 3 external and fluval 4+ internal (at lowest output) to provide a bit of current-its very little though.

Tank has a sand substrate base that has been coated in amond leaves (dried) and then bogwood has been added ontop of that to cover the entire tank apart from one corner under the filter were again, amond leaves have been added to create a sort of leave litter type area-this is the main Pangio domain. The tank is also lightly planted with a few large plants at the back and moss coating some of the bogwood. The only 'open' areas of the tank are at the front whcih I have left completly open and at one side of the tank-but then again this is still covered by overhands of bogwood.
Water is kept at a constant of 26 degrees but lowered during two water changes per week to 23-24 degrees. Amond leaves are topped up continuously, I think about 3-7 leaves are added per week depending how quickly the others are breaking down.

They have a number of tank mates- shoal of cherry barbs, a few cory catfish, 5 horseface loaches, fork tail loaches, and a shoal of 5 banded barbs.

All get along dandy and I think thats about it


Ashleigh

Thanks for that Ashleigh

I'll have to get some Almond leaves,I've never tried them before.

I've got 12 pygmy chain loaches and 6 sumo loaches in my planted 4'x2'x2' tank and I'm hoping to get some fork tail loaches to go with them.Do you think pangios would fit in too?There are a few non loaches like rasboras and honey gouramis but nothing large and/or aggressive.

No problem,

Im not to sure about the chain loaches-I have read that they can be a bit nippy, but they are a species I have never kept so I can't comment. For my honest opinion I would put the forktails and pangios in a seperate tank from them but that is just my opinion-I would be worried about the large tail of the vaillantella getting nipped.

Hopefully someone else can comment for certain about the chains and pangios together.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help

Ashleigh

Wonderful pics!

Those panda pangios are certainly gravid & very healthy. Beautiful fish!!

daspricey wrote:Wonderful pics!

Those panda pangios are certainly gravid & very healthy. Beautiful fish!!

Thanks

Yea, the Panda pangios are pretty gravid-trying to get them to release eggs via the amond leaves and cool water changes to try and give them some comfort-I had four that were pretty heavy and now Im down to 3-no idea how though They look like they are about to burst at times

Ashleigh

Do you just have females?

Sometimes for breeding some loaches & garra, they spawn during thunder storms- they think it's the beginning of the rainy season. If you add some Indian almond leaves a few days before a big thunder storm (Although the weather forecasters are usually wrong - get a weather loach lol) and do a big cool water change during the thunder storm, this could work? (Using a combination of ideas from accidental spawnings of a few fish)

No, I have a couple of very nice males (if I was a fish that is )

Thunder storms-can't remember the last time we had one its really sunny at the moment for a change. Good idea though, will try next time we have one

Ashleigh

Ashleigh wrote:Thunder storms-can't remember the last time we had one

Ours was quite a while back, probably a year ago! Of coarse we had several small thunder storms but far from big!
Hopefully one or to big ones come up in the summer.
Thats how Chester zoo aquarium got their blind cave garra to spawn that once a couple of years ago!

Great photo's. I'm in the process off setting up a Pangio tank and am really interested in your take on leaves.
Here,s a favourite photo from my set up.