Loach ID

[Swampman]

Can someone ID this Loach They eat snails.

 

[PassengerTN]

Yoyo loach aka botia lohachata

Jesse

 

[ImACoolguy]

Yoyo loach aka botia lohachata

Jesse

Looks like it.

Botia species of loaches will devour any snails you have.


Caleb

 

[Stacey W.]

Looks like it.

Botia species of loaches will devour any snails you have.


Caleb

Guess my 4 angelicus botia don't read the book because I've had my snails for a month and still kicking.

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[ImACoolguy]

Guess my 4 angelicus botia don't read the book because I've had my snails for a month and still kicking.

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That's strange! We had one and it are all of our snails.


Caleb

 

[Stacey W.]

I've had my loaches for 8 months before I added my 3 olive nerite snails . A person I know was going to just take them out of the tank and throw them away. I figured they are slower moving snails and blend into their surroundings and what do they have to lose. It's worked so far.

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[Swampman]

Thanks. I never thought it was a YO YO . I had one jump out of the tank. Where the opening was for the filter, I found him on the other side of the floor. Maybe one of our dogs picked him up. But I didn't see any bite marks at all.

 

[Stacey W.]

Thanks. I never thought it was a YO YO . I had one jump out of the tank. Where the opening was for the filter, I found him on the other side of the floor. Maybe one of our dogs picked him up. But I didn't see any bite marks at all.

They are yoyo loaches, you can see a distinctive Y on their back. That's how you identify them.

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[Stacey W.]

Here's a pic of one of my angelicus botia.

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[Swampman]

Thanks

Nice looking tank. What other occupants are in the tank?

 

[Stacey W.]

Thanks! It's a 55g column style tank with 3 oto's, 4 angelicus botia, 3 bolivian rams, 1 keyhole cichlid and a honey gourami.

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[absolutangel04]

I've had my loaches for 8 months before I added my 3 olive nerite snails . A person I know was going to just take them out of the tank and throw them away. I figured they are slower moving snails and blend into their surroundings and what do they have to lose. It's worked so far.

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They generally only go after smaller snails. Also, Nerites are hard to knock off the glass, so they may try a few times, then give it up and not bother with them anymore. I have kept nerites with loaches for years. Pond snails or mts that come with plants are gone though. I never even know I had them until I find shells sometime afterward.

 

[sinibotia]

Yoyo loach aka botia lohachata

Jesse

botia lohachata isn't the correct name anymore. It was revised to botia almorhae fairly recently.

 

[PoppaRyno]

Ooh.... Pantaloons de fancie!

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[sinibotia]

Ooh.... Pantaloons de fancie!

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Can't help it! The entirety of loach taxonomy underwent a pretty big revision in the last decade. Now some people think lohachata is a different species altogether.... It's a mess

 

[PoppaRyno]

Sounds like the discus naming issue.

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[Freakgecko91]

Sounds like the discus naming issue.

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Or basically ever cichlid genus lol specifically Central American species lately


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[sinibotia]

As my favorite professor once said, "Taxonomy is the work of the devil"

 

[PoppaRyno]

Or basically ever cichlid genus lol specifically Central American species lately


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Very true. But im finding discus is baaaad. I start looking at different breeders stocks and each one has a pigeon blood named something different than the next. None of them call it a pigeon blood. I get the nature of taxonomy, but dang.

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[ImACoolguy]

Very true. But im finding discus is baaaad. I start looking at different breeders stocks and each one has a pigeon blood named something different than the next. None of them call it a pigeon blood. I get the nature of taxonomy, but dang.

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I've seen that poppa. It's like everyone has their own image of what a Pigeon Blood looks like...


Caleb