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Awesome loaches! Iv never had good luck with them unfortunatly.

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kissofcrimson said:
Nice clowns ;) I've got only one big loach, a dojo. The rest are pangio.

I'm doing a tank change atm so my tank looks like crap.

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I've been looking for another black khuli like that for YEARS. The banded one's here are a dime a dozen. The one black khuli I found was in a batch of banded ones. That was around 15 years ago... He's still healthy and active and is a survivor!!! Life got busy for me and he lived in a very neglected, non filtered, and lightly planted tank for at least a year with no food added in. One day I decided to finally clean out that tank. I thought everything in there must have been long dead. Lo and behold he was alive and healthy!!! Don't know how he survived but he is now (and has been for a while)one of my favorite fish. All the much less hardy banded ones died off much sooner. It seems they don't import them here because they don't look as fancy (thus don't sell well), but they are now my favorite. When I go to the LFS I always look through their khulis hoping to find another black one.
 
ECW said:
I've been looking for another black khuli like that for YEARS. The banded one's here are a dime a dozen. The one black khuli I found was in a batch of banded ones. That was around 15 years ago... He's still healthy and active and is a survivor!!! Life got busy for me and he lived in a very neglected, non filtered, and lightly planted tank for at least a year with no food added in. One day I decided to finally clean out that tank. I thought everything in there must have been long dead. Lo and behold he was alive and healthy!!! Don't know how he survived but he is now (and has been for a while)one of my favorite fish. All the much less hardy banded ones died off much sooner. It seems they don't import them here because they don't look as fancy (thus don't sell well), but they are now my favorite. When I go to the LFS I always look through their khulis hoping to find another black one.
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15 years? That's an old loach. lol I learned early that the banded ones die very easily. A friend bought me 5 and he got 6. Only one of mine survived & two of his did. They didn't do well in transport & I only noticed after they were in the my tank that they had scrapes on their bodies. I was so excited to have found the banded ones (only seen them online, never in my lfs's) I didn't care what shape they were in lol Brown (or cinnamon) are the common ones here with the occasional black. I have both a black & brown.

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kissofcrimson said:
15 years? That's an old loach. lol I learned early that the banded ones die very easily. A friend bought me 5 and he got 6. Only one of mine survived & two of his did. They didn't do well in transport & I only noticed after they were in the my tank that they had scrapes on their bodies. I was so excited to have found the banded ones (only seen them online, never in my lfs's) I didn't care what shape they were in lol Brown (or cinnamon) are the common ones here with the occasional black. I have both a black & brown.

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I'm not kidding! I got the loach way back in the day. I remember spotting him at a petland at alamoana (a mall) in one of their tanks and asked them how much. I think I got it for somewhere between a 1$ and 1.50$. To be honest I am very suprised he is still alive and is looking healthy as ever! He swims up and down the glass after every water change and is very active/never shy so I get to see him often. I know that's pretty old for a khuli and am dreading finding him dead one of these days. I know finding another one around here is next to impossible.
That's weird that the brown/black ones are so common in your area. All we ever get is the banded ones!:irked: Sometimes I find a banded one that looks like it may be a brown/black but upon closer inspection it never is. Just a weirdly/barely marked striped khuli.
 
ECW said:
I'm not kidding! I got the loach way back in the day. I remember spotting him at a petland at alamoana (a mall) in one of their tanks and asked them how much. I think I got it for somewhere between a 1$ and 1.50$. To be honest I am very suprised he is still alive and is looking healthy as ever! He swims up and down the glass after every water change and is very active/never shy so I get to see him often. I know that's pretty old for a khuli and am dreading finding him dead one of these days. I know finding another one around here is next to impossible.
That's weird that the brown/black ones are so common in your area. All we ever get is the banded ones!:irked: Sometimes I find a banded one that looks like it may be a brown/black but upon closer inspection it never is. Just a weirdly/barely marked striped khuli.
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I never knew they could live that long honestly. I always thought they had short life spans. The blacks & browns come out way more then my banded. They are almost always out "digging" or circling the glass. I've had mine for probably a year & a half. I seriously wish we had banded like that here. My tank would be stocked with them. I always thought the brown/black were more readily available then banded but I guess it depends on where you live.

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Very nice loaches! Beautiful shot anarekist :headbang2
I used to have a tiger botia but haven't seen one in years....
Those guys look so cool..
I see khulis almost everywhere around me though! Every type.
Make sure those dojo or weather loaches are in colder water!
 
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