Can anyone ID this loach?

[Somonas]

I got this loach yesterday, it was not marked in the LFS tank with the yoyo's. it is about 3" long.

 

[Lotus]

It's Botia kubotai, there's more pics here: http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/botia_sp_myanmar.html

We got 4 of them last week, so far they seem pretty non-aggressive, they eat some snails (but mostly the smaller ones), and don't hide too much.

 

[420Loach]

those are sweet. i need to go check my lfs out hehe see if i have any luck.

 

[theeyrietrainer]

yeah i must agree with lotus, they look like angelicus to me too! there a good species, not too bothery, too scared (like clown loaches) and dont freak out so much. id buy some if there were some here, i think there one of the better looking loaches

 

[420Loach]

name an ugly one. hehehe

 

[Lotus]

It's the same loach as Botia angelicus, but that was a "bogus" fish trade name. It has recently been given a "real" name, which is Botia kubotai.

 

[theeyrietrainer]

ok i will
http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/botia_beauforti.html
that freaky one!

well, uglness perception differs from one person to another. as the quote goes "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." other loaches that scare me are horse-faced ones *shivers* but my mom doesnt like kuhli loaches, odd

 

[Cillana]

Yeah saw pics of those online and wanted some. I couldn't find any though.

 

[Somonas]

argh it has a bit of ich.
Now would be a good time to get a bunch of clown loaches. they always get ich anyway. and then treat the tank all at once
now some people know why I said I'll never get loaches again
grr.

 

[Lotus]

Yeah, ours have a touch of ich too. Hopefully it won't be a big issue. They seem to be less suceptible than clowns, which would have been covered by now. I have sometimes even had ich go away on its own, but not on clowns

The poor things have had a long journey from Asia to your tank, and I am sure that was a little stressful for them.

 

[Somonas]

well after bumping the temp up to 86 all the ich is gone (from this lifecycle anyway).
I might try those clowns again after all. it's nice to have some non-cichlid wildcaughts in my house.

 

[420Loach]

HAH! is that the best ye can do*hiccup* j/k

check out these roundtails...

http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/corbitis_rotundicaudata.html

id still get one if i had the room hehehe

 

[Lotus]

I just wanted to say, that these loaches absolutely adore tubifex worm cubes. They like bloodworms, snails and shrimp pellets fine, but went crazy when I put a tubifex cube in.

 

[phOOey]

those loaches are so neat, i've been looking in to getting some loaches, clowns 9 as there the only ones the stores round here have ) but wont be getting them for atleast another month