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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?




http://www.flickr.com/photos/70962614@N00/8683593371/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/70962614@N00/8684710996/

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.

Thanks that looks right.