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can I call them Lepidocephalichthys sp. uknown?

piggy4 wrote:Is it possible these are a type of Kottelatlimia sp/

Maybe kottelatlimia pristes

Thomas wrote:Take a look at the fins, your loaches have markings in their fins, the tuberoschistura in your link has clear fins.

I am not saying is the same. I am takling about body shape in the comparison. The loach I have seem to be quite small...

To me it looks very similar to this one but different coloration:

http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Photos/Pic ... at=species

but I am not an expert on loaches.

Hi there. I have had this loaches for around a month or so. They are from Myanmar. They came as tuberoschistura_sp. There current size is around 3/4". They seem to me like they are dwarf loaches. Any ideas what they are? http://www.invertzfactory.com/images/tuberoschistura_sp/Tuberoschistura_sp.jpg ...

Hi there. I recently got some sumo loaches and some of them have been dying. They seem to be getting bloated and getting some red spots underneath. Tank has very good filtration and oxygen. Ph: 7.2 Ammonia: 0 Nitrites: 0 Nitrates: 10 Do you know what it might be and how to treat it? See pictures bel...

I had somthing similar rescently , I did eventually manage to treat it but did have some losses , personally I used Velvet cures , it looks like a sort of velvet whitespot and slime combined thing :evil: I have been searching for this in google to see how It can be cured and nothing. If anyone know...

Do some research for Super Ich, but this looks more like a really bad case of regular Ich. I would move these fish to a bare bottom tank so that you can do daily vacuuming and be sure to remove the Ich as it falls off. If you have several species of fish that can handle different medications then s...

I have some Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki that are suffering from a disease that seems similar to ich. The spots seem a little bigger than ich and they seem to protrude from the body. The fish have been in the tank for 6 weeks. The tank has been established for more than a year. The fish are breathing h...

Loaches are doing better and eating live bloodworms released to areas were there is flow and movement in the tank. No more deaths.

Very interesting behavior when they hunt for the food.

thanks for all the advice.

Thank you for the responses! No unusual behavior. The fish don't really breath hard either. I have a hard time telling if they eat because I don't see them get excited about the food. But the food does not accumulate, maybe because of the few snails in that tank. Our experience with the Nitrofuracin...

* How long has the tank been set up for? More than a year. It has never had a filter crash (cloudy water) * Water temperature. 78F * Your maintenance regime (e.g. how often water changes are carried out, what percentage of the water is changed each time, how often you clean your filter/s and how do...

Pictures of the fish (big files):

http://www.invertzfactory.com/images/ca ... weedei.jpg
http://www.invertzfactory.com/images/ca ... eedei2.jpg

I have an established 20gal. tank with quartz substrate. It's about 1/3 full with Hornwort. It has an air sponge filter and an internal filter that shoots air across the tank. The internal filter provides about 120 gph of flow. I have about 30 Homaloptera tweedie in that tank. They have nice colorat...