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Yes, it is a Cobitis. Maybe it is the undescribed Taiwanese species that is sometimes in trade last few years.

Cheers,
Thomas

It is a Cobitis.

Cheers,
Thomas

Dieter Tönsmeier, Einheimische Fische im Aquarium, Ulmer Verlag (Not easy to get, at amazon for a horrible price: http://www.amazon.de/Einheimische-Fische-Aquarium-Dieter-T%C3%B6nsmeier/dp/3800171953/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342365888&sr=8-1) Andreas Vilcinskas, Ihr Hobby - Heimische Aquarienfische, ...

In german books about cold water fishes you can read that breeding of barbatula in aquariums is possible. Of course they need an overwintering. There are also pictures of spawning Barbatula. If you want to breed them, you need a group with both gender. I bet there aren't an exact sex ratio which cer...

Gastromyzon crenatus? For me the cranbrooki looks not very similar to mine and Stefs loach.

Hi Jim,

I have compared with mine, that I thought it could be zebrinus. Am I wrong?


Cheers,
Thomas

Hi,

Gastromyzon zebrinus
Pseudogastromyzion fasciatus

Goby don't know, think somehow of the Rhinogobius duospilus group

Cheers,
Thomas

Hi Karen,

You can take a look at the caudal fin, at Misgurnus it is outside rounded. You can see what I mean on this pic.


Pangio have always a bit concave caudal fins, at least (as I know) never convex.

Thomas

sometimes the golden form of Misgurnus anguillicaudatus called "golden kuhli loach". If so, they don't interbreed.
Are you sure your "golden Pangio" are really member of the genus Pangio? A pic would be nice

Cheers,
Thomas

You can try to feed them with artemia nauplii. I've raised some Cobitis fry last year with it.

That's very cool news!

Are swords and guppies native to Indonesia?

No.

Hi,

Chinensis is neither a valid species nor a synonym in the genus Cobitis. The main thing is they are very nice!

The second one has two dorsal fins, so it isn't a loach. It's a goby, but I've no idea about the genus.

Cheers,
Thomas

Hi,

The skinny loach seems to be a Misgurnus, too.

The third loach is a nice patterned Lepidocephalichthys guntea