Kuhlii loach and natural habitat/behaviour
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Kuhlii loach and natural habitat/behaviour
Hi folks!
I have recently gotten engaged in a debate about Kuhliis on a local forum in Norway. My claim has been that this is a schooling species which requires a minimum number to experience safety and to be "happy". However, there has come some references to litterature which claimes that Kuhliies prefer to be alone and live separate from theyre fellow species. We all agree that in an aquarium they seem to thrive from beeing in numbers, but this is not necessarrily theyre requierments in nature. I would really appreciate some comments on this
Kind regards
Marius Podolski
I have recently gotten engaged in a debate about Kuhliis on a local forum in Norway. My claim has been that this is a schooling species which requires a minimum number to experience safety and to be "happy". However, there has come some references to litterature which claimes that Kuhliies prefer to be alone and live separate from theyre fellow species. We all agree that in an aquarium they seem to thrive from beeing in numbers, but this is not necessarrily theyre requierments in nature. I would really appreciate some comments on this
Kind regards
Marius Podolski
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Like Mick I have seen photos of them in the wild and like Graeme said they are always in large groups among the leaf litter.
I have 5 different pangio species together at the moment and they regularly group up in amongst the java fern and anubias, the plants end up looking like Christmas treas laden with tinsel
I have 5 different pangio species together at the moment and they regularly group up in amongst the java fern and anubias, the plants end up looking like Christmas treas laden with tinsel
Pardon my honesty - I am a Northerner
14 loach species bred, which will be next?
Hi!
Yes, this has pretty much been my point of view aswell. Are any of these pictures from the wild avilable on the net? It would be good to have something to link to.
Kind regards
Marius
Yes, this has pretty much been my point of view aswell. Are any of these pictures from the wild avilable on the net? It would be good to have something to link to.
Kind regards
Marius
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Hi Marius,
Here is the link to Michael Lo's fantastic work: http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/articles.htm There are pics of Pangio habitats in there somewhere.
Emma
Here is the link to Michael Lo's fantastic work: http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/articles.htm There are pics of Pangio habitats in there somewhere.
Emma
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Here is one of the links that show the leaf litter habitat where huge colonies of Pangio species live: http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/JVL1.htm
Emma
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these don't look like loners to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D-8BodW-8g
On a side note. I found this video of taiwan.. If you want to see Crossostoma lacustre and a whole bunch of hillstreams in their natural habitat, check it out. It's at 6:00 into the video.
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v7028455rw5enJSa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D-8BodW-8g
On a side note. I found this video of taiwan.. If you want to see Crossostoma lacustre and a whole bunch of hillstreams in their natural habitat, check it out. It's at 6:00 into the video.
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v7028455rw5enJSa
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Here's also another link to our old friend Antti Vuorela on one of his many adventures.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/vuorela.antti/indexenglish.htm
http://www.kolumbus.fi/vuorela.antti/indexenglish.htm
There seems to be an explotion in interest of kuhliies in Norway these days. Can some of you experts identify this kuhlii? http://akvaforum.no/forumimage.cfml?img ... 2Fforum%2F
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