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Hi all. Does anyone have any experience with these. They seem to be new? Do they eat snails? any info on them at all would be greatly appreciated. my lfs just got some in.

I'm a big fan of loaches but don't have personal experience with these. I've seen them in just a few lfs here and they're quite expensive. I would assume like other botias they should be kept in groups, and also that they'd eat snails.

Here are a couple links with some info:

[link=http://badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile87.html]http://badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile87.html" style="COLOR: #FF66FF[/link]

[link=http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/botia_sp_myanmar.html]http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/botia_sp_myanmar.html" style="COLOR: #FF66FF[/link]

[link=http://www.fishinthe.net/html/fishguide/fishguide_fish.php?FC=203&nl=8&nt=5]http://www.fishinthe.net/html/fishguide/fishguide_fish.php?FC=203&nl=8&nt=5" style="COLOR: #FF66FF[/link]

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I think they're a relatively new in the hobby. I've just bought a couple last month, and added into the same tank as my other 3 botia striata.

They are very similiar to other loaches in the sense that they need company of their own kind, but i've noticed that their swimming method differs slightly from the botia striata. While b. striata is able to swim in mid-water quite freely and easily, b. angelicus (or kobutai) uses more of their pectoral fins to 'push' their bodies along the tank's bottom. B. angelicus seem to prefer to spend their time more on the tnak's bottom than B. striata.

Water chemistry is similiar to b. striata. They can be fed regularly using high quality flake, tablet food for bottomfeeders, frozen bloodworms, brineshrimp, and most definiltey, live food

Thanks, when I was at the lfs I noticed they were all playing on the bottom of the tank near one of the decorations (OK under it) and seemed to be all sticking together and having fun. I'm not too sure about the price tho, and the kid there didn't know anything about them. sigh
btw, thanks for the links, they were very informative, altough I did run thru loaches.com last nite

Last edited by divertran at 05-Apr-2005 11:21