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Try http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...21&pCatId=1590
They have some beautiiful loaches
I have this one and he doesn't bother anything
he is pricey but wonderful

I have two of those in my 110g tank, both are over 4" long. Too big for
the small tank. I might settle on B. sidthimunki (sp?)

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Home wrote:
Try http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...21&pCatId=1590
They have some beautiiful loaches
I have this one and he doesn't bother anything
he is pricey but wonderful

I have two of those in my 110g tank, both are over 4" long. Too big for
the small tank. I might settle on B. sidthimunki (sp?)

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Normally these are the best, B. striata. Nice, peaceful, schooling,
not too mean to eachother, available and don't cost too much.

The thing I didn't like about them is that I never saw them! For a while
I thought they had died on me! They're much more active in the 110g tank
for some reason.

Dwarf loaches are great(cost alot though).

Are those Botia sidthimunki (sp?) ?

Kuli's are nice also. There a number of Noemachilius sp and similar
families that are now common in the trade.

I have lots of kuhlis in the big tank (two or three are full of eggs!),
but I have yet to see one eat a snail. Do they?

I had horseface loaches in the past with large sword plants etc, they
acted as worms like in a marine DBS substrate keeping it from
compacting etc.Smaller plants will be uprooted by these though.

Yeah, and fluorite is so light uprooting is already an issue just with
MTS in the tank.

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wrote:
Normally these are the best, B. striata. Nice, peaceful, schooling,
not too mean to eachother, available and don't cost too much.

The thing I didn't like about them is that I never saw them! For a while
I thought they had died on me! They're much more active in the 110g tank
for some reason.

Dwarf loaches are great(cost alot though).

Are those Botia sidthimunki (sp?) ?

Kuli's are nice also. There a number of Noemachilius sp and similar
families that are now common in the trade.

I have lots of kuhlis in the big tank (two or three are full of eggs!),
but I have yet to see one eat a snail. Do they?

I had horseface loaches in the past with large sword plants etc, they
acted as worms like in a marine DBS substrate keeping it from
compacting etc.Smaller plants will be uprooted by these though.

Yeah, and fluorite is so light uprooting is already an issue just with
MTS in the tank.

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Yeah, and fluorite is so light uprooting is already an issue just with
MTS in the tank.

Oh, right you are. I wouldn't trade for my horseheads for anything, but
then I use a blend of coarse sand and fine gravel - in two or three years
they've never so much as uprooted a cutting.

I'd forgotten about kuhlis. I have'nt had any since I was a kid. I never
fed mine so they must have subsisted on snail spawn and planaria.

Victor Martinez wrote in message
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wrote:
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Yeah, and fluorite is so light uprooting is already an issue just with
MTS in the tank.

Oh, right you are. I wouldn't trade for my horseheads for anything, but
then I use a blend of coarse sand and fine gravel - in two or three years
they've never so much as uprooted a cutting.

I'd forgotten about kuhlis. I have'nt had any since I was a kid. I never
fed mine so they must have subsisted on snail spawn and planaria.

I thought Khuli loaches were in a totally different family altogether. They
aren't Botias. Are you guys sure that khuli loaches eat snails?

I've had several botias over the years.. from yoyo to tiger to clown to
dwarf. I've had bad experiences with dwarf loaches. They can get very mean..
I've found my guppies missing all their fins one night because of a dominant
dwarf loach. None of the other loaches have ever done that (Tiger, clown,
and yoyo) although they sometimes chase my guramis away ..

Veronique


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Victor Martinez wrote in message
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Hi. I used to have B. striata in my 20g long planted tank (fluorite
substrate), but I moved them to the big tank. Now I have too many snails
in the little tank, so I'm thinking of adding 1-3 small loaches to be
permanent residents. Which species would you recommend? The tank has 4
species of shrimp in it, some ottos and 3 pigmy cories. And thousands of
snails, 3 different species.
Any help would be most appreciated.

Normally these are the best, B. striata. Nice, peaceful, schooling,
not too mean to eachother, available and don't cost too much.
Dwarf loaches are great(cost alot though).
Dojo's, golden's are very very nice fish as are the others in that
family.
Kuli's are nice also. There a number of Noemachilius sp and similar
families that are now common in the trade.

I had horseface loaches in the past with large sword plants etc, they
acted as worms like in a marine DBS substrate keeping it from
compacting etc.Smaller plants will be uprooted by these though.

Regards,
Tom Barr

I thought Khuli loaches were in a totally different family altogether. They
aren't Botias. Are you guys sure that khuli loaches eat snails?

I've had several botias over the years.. from yoyo to tiger to clown to
dwarf. I've had bad experiences with dwarf loaches. They can get very mean..
I've found my guppies missing all their fins one night because of a dominant
dwarf loach. None of the other loaches have ever done that (Tiger, clown,
and yoyo) although they sometimes chase my guramis away ..

Veronique


" wrote in message
om...
Victor Martinez wrote in message
...
Hi. I used to have B. striata in my 20g long planted tank (fluorite
substrate), but I moved them to the big tank. Now I have too many snails
in the little tank, so I'm thinking of adding 1-3 small loaches to be
permanent residents. Which species would you recommend? The tank has 4
species of shrimp in it, some ottos and 3 pigmy cories. And thousands of
snails, 3 different species.
Any help would be most appreciated.

Normally these are the best, B. striata. Nice, peaceful, schooling,
not too mean to eachother, available and don't cost too much.
Dwarf loaches are great(cost alot though).
Dojo's, golden's are very very nice fish as are the others in that
family.
Kuli's are nice also. There a number of Noemachilius sp and similar
families that are now common in the trade.

I had horseface loaches in the past with large sword plants etc, they
acted as worms like in a marine DBS substrate keeping it from
compacting etc.Smaller plants will be uprooted by these though.

Regards,
Tom Barr

Veronique wrote:
I thought Khuli loaches were in a totally different family altogether. They
aren't Botias. Are you guys sure that khuli loaches eat snails?

They are indeed not Botias. However, it seems the genus has been
rearranged and clown loaches are no longer Botia macracanthus, but
Chromobotia macracanthus. Kuhli loaches can be of two genus (geni?)
Acanthophthalmus and Pangio, IIRC. I've never seen one eat a snail.


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