Loaches Online Forum

I've seen both names at the same store, and I swear they were selling the same loach under two different names. Granted, my husband is the loach fanatic not me, but I was wondering if there is a difference and if so how to tell. Thanks for any help.

The problem I'm running into is that stores only have a few names for long loaches, and only sell them under those names. And with the variations inherint in the species, it's hard to find a definitive match.

I'm just looking for one that has the line across the head through the eye, a round tail ...

Hmm...I'm looking at a pic of a Dojo (Chinese version) and it looks really close, so you guys might be right.

Hmm...I guess we won't know until it's older. When we bought it the store owner didn't even know what it was.

We got this little one a week now, and he's doing fine. We went through the species index, and we think it might be a "Graceful Loach" ("Cobitis choii"), or a "Cobitis striata". But as you can see, our loach is made up of spots, not lines, though he does have a black eyespot on his tail fin, even ...