Darren regarding your question, consider rasboras, barbs and danios for tank mates for you kubotai. these fish are more likely to have similar water requirement and are less likely to hassle your kubotai. i have rasbora heteromorpha, rasbora dorciocellata and brachydanio rerio with my loaches.
have a look at this website.
http://www.danios.info/home.asp
please do not take offense by what people here are telling you. here you will find some of the world's experts on loaches, and you seem to ignore some of the advise you are given. maybe you should spend a little longer considering what you are reading before reacting?
I would have to say honestly that on the cichlid forums i go to 85% of the people have clown loaches in there mbuna tanks and they all keep there ph around 8.0, so again we are just assuming and not asking or geting facts you people just have some towards of hatred towards me
these people on the cichlid forums are quite correct to keep thier mbuna in these conditions. it seems you didnt understand my reply to you properly.
if you went on a cichlid forum saying that you were keeping lake cichlids in the soft low pH water that some of the loach species require, you would probably get a slating there.
i would not consider keeping mbuna in these conditions. if i was i would expect people to have a go at me.
just because some people think its OK to keep fish in the wrong conditions doesnt mean it is RIGHT to. please try and understand the difference.
i have never been treated like this on any other forum i have visited and i muct say that it is terrably upseting that people in this world could be so ignorent
i am sorry you think people on here are being ignorant. they are most likely upset that you are not understanding that it is wrong to keep loaches and cichlids together. when you changed from gravel to sand, that was
good. where you went wrong then was not taking out the remaining cichlids when you had an ideal opportunity. you were given advice then. have you followed that advice? you have had similar advice on this site numerous times before. because people here have passion for their fish, they are quite entitled to be upset with you.