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Not all of these Pangio anguillaris pics are in brilliant focus (teeny fish!), but I'm sure you'll get the idea.

First there was one:





Then there were more. Lots more:











Emma

Gotta love those wrinkly face's! Picture number 3 has to have 'Caption of the week' installed.

Excellent images!

Those are about the coolest pics I've ever seen.

That's amazing .
They remind me a bit of garden eels.

those pics just made my night

Brilliant! They look like whales spy-hopping.

Martin.

amazing! It's like they swim through the sand.

Those are sensational, Emma! I'm hoping you can get some better, hi-res versions of these? I took shots of mine doing this a long time ago, but to see a little forest of heads is pretty cool. I think we can safely assume that this is a behaviour to expect in their habitat, which is why you are lucky to see them in a planted tank at all.

More great observations from Ms. Turner!

We have seen some specialty tanks come along since Martin's manifold system for hillstreams. A species tank designed for these chaps would be rather good. To see them in numbers like that, not just in a crappy bare tank as they appear around here, is wonderful.

Awwwwwww was all you heard in this house as we looked at the photos!

Followed closely by "I want some"

Lovely pictures Emma!

Thank you, I'm glad everyone liked them. These actually do this most evenings, which I see whenever we happen to be working late, but never during normal opening hours.

The difficulty I have with these photos is the depth of field, as quite often the big bundles of these kuhlis are spread about in the tank, and it is impossible to get them all in focus. But I will keep persevering!

I think we can safely say that in the wild, these are likely to congregate like this in their thousands, rather than the odd few that are usually kept in the home aquarium. Like I've mentioned before, large single species shoals/groups/bundles (whatever you want to call them) of loaches have to be very beneficial. And this is not only to the fish in terms of natural bahaviour, but also to us, the observers.

Emma

Wow, thats really cool. Ive never seen a picture like that before

Emma,
There was a photo I remember seeing a while back from one of the tanks in your shop. It had the highest number of B. striata I have ever seen in one place. Absolutely stunning, but I haven't been able to find it since!

palaeodave wrote:There was a photo I remember seeing a while back from one of the tanks in your shop. It had the highest number of B. striata I have ever seen in one place. Absolutely stunning, but I haven't been able to find it since!

Hmmm, I will have a search. I'm wondering if it was a shot taken by one of the British LOL gang at one of our meets?

Emma

Yup! It was I

It's in the forums somewhere.

Found it!