Question about Kuhli Loaches

[Tay690]

Hi there,
I'm going to get some Kuhli Loaches later tonight and I just had a couple quick questions

1. I want to put them with 6 gold zebra loaches in my 55g...are they ok to share a tank with the gold zebras? (they're really wild zebras...constantly swimming and boy are they fast!)

2. I was reading the profile information for the Kuhli Loaches and I saw they liked a pH up to 6.8
The water in my tap comes out at 7.5 pH...will they be ok with slightly higher pH? If so I guess the standard slow and gradual acclimation as usual (float bag for 30 mins...add 5% water from tank to bag every 10 minutes...add fish only with as little water as humanly possible from the bag etc)

Thanks in advance,
Taylor

[Mad Duff]

Kuhli's will be fine with histrionica, I have kuhlis in with mine and the histies dont bother the kuhlis.

I have my kuhlis in water around 7 to 7.6 and they are fine and have spawned, just acclimatise them carefully and you should be fine.

[Tay690]

Thank you very much Duffman lol

Your answer put my mind at ease...I knew someone would have the same situation and same params as me

Much appreciated

Sincerely,
Taylor

[Jason75]

If I may.... Make sure they can not swim up your pump filter. They can and will do it. I have some friends that this happened to.

[Tay690]

The tank I have has very very fine Silica sand

I have filter floss over the intake and it's always on there to prevent sand from getting into the impeller

I have the tetra ex 70 I believe and it has those very thin intake slits
Not quite as big as an Aquaclear intake