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Does anyone have a best guess to how long it takes a fry to grow to full adult size for these guys?

I bought 5 of them early this fall and I just counted 6 in my tank. I am currently searching for more. I have a lot of sand/good hiding places and finding the 5 i thought i had was difficult at best. So, when i counted 6, it was a complete shock. With all the other loaches in the tank, I would consider it a minor miracle that any fry would survive.

I am now doubting my memory, but I know I only got 5 of them, lol. The hard part is with so much current food particles go into every nook and cranny of some of the hiding spots; the dominant loaches pick these prime hiding locations and let the food comes to them. So I do not see all my loaches at feeding times and it is possible that a young Pangio could stay under cover feeding... Since they find all the extra small locations to hide.

Well perhaps I will just stay undecided until i find a 7th one

I found when my oblonga spawned that the fry grew quite quickly, I would say that in 3 months they just looked like slimmer slightly shorter replicas of the adult fish, but obviously not adult fish if you get what I mean

Congrats!!! I'm still hoping that mine will spawn some day!