Locating rare pangios

[Joe Khul]

Hello everyone,

I am wondering how I would go about obtaining some of the pangios located here. I have spoken with my local fish retailers and they claim they cant justify obtaining some of the non standard breeds do to the high mortality rate during and after shipment. Ideas? Advice?

Thanks in advance,

Mike

[tariesindanrie]

Hi Mike,

If your local retailers can't or won't supply what you want, you might find it here www.franksaquarium.com

A little pricey with the shipping, but Frank's stock is always healthy, and he quarantines all of his loaches and pre-treats them to guard against 'skinny disease' and parasites. If you don't see what you're looking for, send him a note or call him. Since it's the dead of summer, you may have to wait for an order for a bit, since he won't ship when the weather is too hot or cold. Lots of good reviews from members here


Kate

[Thomas]

Hello Mike,

I've found some interesting pangio between "standardpangios" All what you need are good eyes and the permit to catch the loaches with your own hands out of the tank....and of course some luck while catching. Normaly a dealer isn't happy if he had to catch one special pangio in a tank with 50 other...

In this way I got one P. shelfordii, P. cuneovirgata and some other. Sometimes no rare species but with interesting markings like a yellow line on the back.

Good Luck

Thomas

[Thomas]

I again

A small Hint: If you are interested in P. doriae than take a closer look to the tanks with Black kuhliis (P. oblonga) inside. In many P. oblonga imports I've seen some P. doriae (not many, the "record" is 4). I know at least from two other aquarists who made the same experience.

Thomas

[starsplitter7]

I have found interesting Pangios in feeder tanks in the mega fish/pet stores. Got them for free too. I am hoping I found something interesting at my LFS today. Pictures soon.

[Joe Khul]

Sorry for the delayed thanks, but... thanks!!

Thomas - Thanks for the hints!

Tanja - I will try to keep a look out.. now if only yhe mega stores around here had feeder tanks.... )

[Joe Khul]

Thanks for the the hints. I was able to locate 3 unknown kuhli's in a batch of p. oblonga at my LFS. I got them for the same price as the p. oblonga since the clerk was happy that someone took them off their hands. I have some pictures that I need to clean up for posting, and should have them up soon. The color is deceptive in my pictures. They have gold irredesences to them

I believe I have them narrowed down to the two in this link.

http://www.loaches.com/species-index/ph ... 2.jpg/view

Will post pics soon.

Joe Kuhl

[starsplitter7]

I have found both of these mixed with P. oblonga and in with feeder fish. At Petsmart 2 of 5 "oblongas" were anguillaris or maybe doride sp?.