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gnr4ever8794  Enthusiast Posts: 253 Kudos: 222 Votes: 24 Registered: 12-Apr-2004   | any info on them? they look pretty mean lol I bought 2 today...stupid me not looking them up first. they're long look like a weather loach/CAE. so far theyre very active but nice unless someone messes with them first. |
 Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:06 |       |
Captain_Candiru Enthusiast Posts: 233 Kudos: 298 Votes: 0 Registered: 06-Feb-2004 | Try and find a picture, we need a little more to work with. With so many common names among dealers its hard to tell. |
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| gnr4ever8794 Enthusiast Posts: 253 Kudos: 222 Votes: 24 Registered: 12-Apr-2004 | good point...well I found a picture... http://www.fishba |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:06 | |
| gnr4ever8794 Enthusiast Posts: 253 Kudos: 222 Votes: 24 Registered: 12-Apr-2004 | ok did my own research and they're peaceful and don't get very big, and as I found out, a very good clean up crew, don't let anything sit on the bottom for more than 2 seconds. I'm not sure if they eat snails or like to school...so any help on that would be great. oh and their scientific name is Acanthocobitis urophthalmus |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:06 | |
| Captain_Candiru Enthusiast Posts: 233 Kudos: 298 Votes: 0 Registered: 06-Feb-2004 | Ah, fishba I know clown loaches eat snails like there's no tomorrow, not sure about the smaller botia species however. Your mountain loach might prey upon the smaller snails and their eggs due to their appetite for all things small and invertebrate, which wouldn't be a bad thing at all unless you want more snails. |
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synodontis    Fish Master Posts: 1403 Kudos: 2000 Votes: 1099 Registered: 02-Oct-2003  | well once i had a zipper loach http://www.fishprofiles.com/profiles/fw/profile.asp?id=Acanthocobitis+botia and he cleared my 20g of snails. and since the mountain loach is also an Acanthocobitis, id guess they'd be somewhat similer. And as for them schooling, i dunno sorry. cfd  -------------------------- Billy was a scientist, Billy is no more. For what he thought was H20, was H2SO4 |
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