Loaches Online Forum

Hi there,
I'm going to get some Kuhli Loaches later tonight and I just had a couple quick questions

1. I want to put them with 6 gold zebra loaches in my 55g...are they ok to share a tank with the gold zebras? (they're really wild zebras...constantly swimming and boy are they fast!)

2. I was reading the profile information for the Kuhli Loaches and I saw they liked a pH up to 6.8
The water in my tap comes out at 7.5 pH...will they be ok with slightly higher pH? If so I guess the standard slow and gradual acclimation as usual (float bag for 30 mins...add 5% water from tank to bag every 10 minutes...add fish only with as little water as humanly possible from the bag etc)

Thanks in advance,
Taylor

Kuhli's will be fine with histrionica, I have kuhlis in with mine and the histies dont bother the kuhlis.

I have my kuhlis in water around 7 to 7.6 and they are fine and have spawned, just acclimatise them carefully and you should be fine.

Thank you very much Duffman lol

Your answer put my mind at ease...I knew someone would have the same situation and same params as me

Much appreciated

Sincerely,
Taylor

If I may.... Make sure they can not swim up your pump filter. They can and will do it. I have some friends that this happened to.

The tank I have has very very fine Silica sand

I have filter floss over the intake and it's always on there to prevent sand from getting into the impeller

I have the tetra ex 70 I believe and it has those very thin intake slits
Not quite as big as an Aquaclear intake