What is the name of this fish?

[professorjimjam]

Can you please identify this fish?
Also can this fish eat my Malaysian trumpet snails?

 

[Deadeye]

Yo-yo loach I think.
M MultipleTankSyndrome is the one to go to for loaches.
It would go after snails, and generally does well in groups.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

I wouldn't be so sure that that's a yoyo loach. Its patterning does resemble a young ladder loach to some degree (second picture): https://www.loaches.com/species-index/botia-rostrata
Do keep us updated as it grows, if possible.

Deadeye is right, all Botia loaches do best in groups of at least 5 or 6. Yoyos and ladders included, so if you don't already have at least 4 or 5 more, that many more should be purchased ASAP.
And yes, I would expect this species to eat snails as well.

Good luck and enjoy the fish. Botia loaches are excellent species to have.
Here is a quality guideline written by Loaches Online on their general care: https://www.loaches.com/articles/an-introduction-to-keeping-botia

 

[professorjimjam]

Thank you

 

[professorjimjam]

Will it die if he lives alone? I only bought one.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Quite possibly. As 'An Introduction To Keeping Botia' says:

Numbers:

Botiine loaches are shoaling species and must always be kept in groups. In my opinion, five is the absolute minimum. Kept as solitary specimens they can become either aggressive or reclusive, the latter causing them to pine away, sometimes refusing to feed, leading to a painful and premature death. These fish develop social bonds with each other and find comfort in the form of a shoal of others of their own kind. They will usually form a pecking order, with a fish known as the ‘Alpha loach’ quite obviously in charge – this is usually (but not always) the largest loach in the aquarium and is often a female. Follow this ‘numbers’ rule and you will get the chance to see them behaving naturally and at their fullest potential; put plainly, keeping just one (or a low number) of these remarkably social fish is simply cruel.

Even if it doesn't die, keeping it alone would still be very bad for it. If you can't find more, I'd suggest returning it, or even better rehoming it to someone who has more.

 

[professorjimjam]

Thanks. I will go and buy two more. Will a group of three be sufficient?

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Not quite. Also from the quote:

five is the absolute minimum.

And of course, the more the better. If you don't have space in your tank for 5 or more, it would be best to return the fish.

 

[professorjimjam]

Thank you.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Glad I could help.