Fish ID, long thin loach

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MuscaDomestica
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Fish ID, long thin loach

Post by MuscaDomestica » Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:28 pm

Might as well ask here. About 6 or so years ago I got a strange elongated loach from a pet store labeled as a "glass eel" It lived happly in my heavly planted tank with some Khulis, although I would only see it once a year or so. The tank had a leak this week and I transfered all the animals to a new aquarium, took about two days straight to find this guy, so I took a good picture and tried to identify him. I am stumped, he looks kind of like a forktail loach but his tail is not that long or forked. Any ideas?



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Francois van Brederode
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Re: Fish ID, long thin loach

Post by Francois van Brederode » Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:51 am

http://www.loaches.com/species-index/pangio-anguillaris

Probably one of these, or a species very much like it.
Enjoy it! I have several, they get pretty big.
You wont see it often, as you noticed, this is because they like to spend their days under the gravel/sand.
Pardon my English, I'm from Holland....

MuscaDomestica
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Re: Fish ID, long thin loach

Post by MuscaDomestica » Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:11 pm

Thanks that looks right.

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