pangios responding to weather?
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pangios responding to weather?
I've noticed that often when the weather changes, my pangios start loachy dancing all day and night. Lately the weather here in atlanta has been crazy. It was almost down to freezing last week, then this week it was in the 70s. Last night, it dropped again overnight. All week, the pangios have been dancing - they make me tired just watching them! The temperature in the house hasn't changed much, and the tank has stayed stable. Has anyone noticed pangios responding to barometric changes like dojos do? Or is it just a coincidence?
I have oblonga, khulii, myersi, and pulla. The only ones not dancing are the pullas.
I have oblonga, khulii, myersi, and pulla. The only ones not dancing are the pullas.
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Hi zmo63,
I was curious about your possible Pangio pulla, so I hope you don't mind that I searched to see if you'd ever posted pics of them on here. I stumbled across this thread showing your beautiful loach tanks: http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=16119 and saw your pics. Those Pangios are not the real P. pulla, as P. pulla are vertically striped (the description for the species is an entirely blackish brown body with 20-25 thin light vertical bands). Also a while back, some neon green kuhlis were exported and initially mislabelled in the trade. The name was changed on the lists from the initial misnomer P. pulla to P. cf doriae, although it's possible some stores ordered them in before they changed the name on the lists and didn't realise. I think it's highly likely that this is how yours came to bear that name. Here is an old thread of mine with some pics to compare with your loaches: http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=11668
Emma
I was curious about your possible Pangio pulla, so I hope you don't mind that I searched to see if you'd ever posted pics of them on here. I stumbled across this thread showing your beautiful loach tanks: http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=16119 and saw your pics. Those Pangios are not the real P. pulla, as P. pulla are vertically striped (the description for the species is an entirely blackish brown body with 20-25 thin light vertical bands). Also a while back, some neon green kuhlis were exported and initially mislabelled in the trade. The name was changed on the lists from the initial misnomer P. pulla to P. cf doriae, although it's possible some stores ordered them in before they changed the name on the lists and didn't realise. I think it's highly likely that this is how yours came to bear that name. Here is an old thread of mine with some pics to compare with your loaches: http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=11668
Emma
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Thanks for that, Emma, I was actually going to create another post specifically about these ones, because I wondered why pulla wasn't listed in the species index, and I've never been sure if the two I have are even the same species. Do you think they're both Pangio cf. doriae or simply P. doriae? The pinker one does look a lot like the P. doriae in the species index, but I'm not so sure about the greenish one.
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