Horse-Faced Loach...Any Experience?

[HawkEye_Pierce]

anyone ever have a Horse-Faced Loach? I just got 2 0f them along with 3 leopard Danios...the loaches are cool but VERY fearful...one is buried under the gravel (which is normal) and the other is hiding in a plant...I read that stress can very easily kill these fish...

Hopefully they will like their new home and be less stressed!!

Thx

 

[Igor The Cat]

id put in nsome stress med or a little bit of melafix in there tank for about 4 days

-Java

 

[dana307]

I LOVE MY HORSE FACED LOACH. Feed em frozen bloodworms - took me a long while to figure this out. The other day I tossed in a froz bworm cube and found horse faced up on the 1/2 clay pot chowing away. They do hide for a while but come out after getting used to the tank. I think they look so cool. Don't try catching him/them ever again - especially if you have plants. They are fast and a bit shy.

 

[HawkEye_Pierce]

thx dana...I know what you mean about catching them...they just dig into the gravel...LOL...I was watching the person at my LFS and it took her 5 minutes to catch just one!! They are more active now they they are settling down...I watched them a little last night when the lights went out...they were ALL OVER the tank!! One still seems a little shy in the light but the other is much less timid...they are so cool!!! I want to get a dwarf pleco to finish off my cleaning crew and then get some color in the tank with the danios

 

[dana307]

good luck and keep us posted or me specifically about your horsies. I love em although I am wondering if my tank is a bit cloudy because he digs and burrows, stirring things up. anyone ideas about this?

 

[steve535]

i had two for years they got to 6".GREAT FISH .they would sit with there heads sticking out of the gravel.blood worms, and the shake from the bottem of the krill can.watch your temp when you water change. good luck steve