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i got my single weather loach 2 more friends





these guys are a little more gold colored
same price 2.49 us

Very nice, hemi. I think these 2 are a different species to your other one, I'd say Misgurnus mizolepis.

Emma

thanks emma
i notice there barbs are alot longer also
will they get along if there diffrent?
i mean like my clowns didnt hang out with my skunks or yo-yos

You'll have to wait for someone else to answer that hemi, as I myself have no experience at all with that particular species.

I would think that they would get along fine, being similar, but they may not behave as they would if they were all the same species. Misgurnus mizolepis prefers slightly warmer temps to the M. anguillicaudatus though, which may prove a bit tricky.

Emma

I hadnt realized there were two distinct varieties of wether loaches... is one much more common than the other? Just by the one and only pic in the species description its hard to tell. Just curious because I am planning on setting up a big dojo & goldfish tank and depending on what room I eventually decide to put it could put it in either of those temp bands (one room is 65*-69* and the upstairs room would be 70*-74*.

We only tend to get M. anguillicaudatus over here these days. There is another very beautiful species (not currently featured on our LOL species index) called M. fossilis, which is banned for import to the UK because of its cold temperature tolerance:

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/species ... e=fossilis

It would appear that this species is considered as Low Risk on the IUCN red list, so whether exports to other countries are still occuring, I do not know. A very striking-looking loach though.

Emma

Thanks for posting on this.

I'd love to know if you guys have a site on how to tell the differences. I bought "weather laoches" also and assumed there was one main kind.

I'm in Canada so i'm not sure if we have the same restrictions as the UK.

We've never come up with a page for telling them apart. If we had specific information we would though.

In Canada, we have no specific species bans when it comes to "weather loaches". Most of the ones on sale seem to be of mixed species depending on supplier and there are suspicions of hybridization which further clouds the issue.

I've just lately noticed a few more around than usual and Walmart have had them at insanely cheap price. I'm gradually get more and more tempted after over 8 years of loach-keeping to actually set up a tank for some.

Martin.

Hi,
Since we're talking about weather loaches, has anyone kept
them in pond? My small pond ~200g is fairly empty, and I was thinking
about adding some sand in the bottom and adding 4 or so
weather loaches. Has anyone here done this? What has been your
experiences with it?

Thanks,
Batch

I've heard of them surviving in garden ponds in Canada, so you ought to be ok down there. Don't expect to see too much of them though.

Martin.

One concern may be the temp of the water in a pond possibly. Would be kind of neat though.

Would it get to hot in the summer? I guess if your pond is deep perhaps it would be cooler but I dont know much about ponds... would love to have one but our current yard isnt large enough.

I've got one/maybe two of those; I've never been entirely sure if they're mizolepis or not as some of the photos I've seen seem to be of different species Misgurnus don't seem to be terribly enthusiastically described and I think there are several species.

Mine is/are very happy in a cold-water tank; unheated, and I think a good six inches. They eat everything - including my fingers - and get on fine, though they're not truly social fish in the way that my yoyos or kuhlis are; the kuhlis live together and the yoyos play together; the weathers just seem to exist in the same tank! I'd like some more but they're really hard to get hold of round here for some reason. I may go see Emma's shop tomorrow, transport permitting....