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I woke up this morning to find my red-finned loach on the floor next to the aquarium. He had gotten out of the tank and got quite far before dying. Has anyone ever heard of a botia doing such a thing? The tank was well maintained but he had taken to hiding in some baby hideout grass and...

Cool! Thanks a lot.

Thanks for all your responses. I moved my aggressive guy over to a bigger tank and now everyone seems happy. I really love these loaches, so my plan is to start up a 75 gallon tank and eventually have a school of four or so. In the meantime, your feedback really helped!

I just set up a new 5.5 gallon hospital/quarantine tank about a week ago. After a few days, I put in three zebra danios to help cycle it. At the same time, I seeded it with some bacteria from an established tank by putting in the following: a live plant, a rock ornament, and a semi-used...

Thanks for your reply.... Blueberry appears to be an Orange-finned Loach (aka Blue Botia) (Botia modesta). Strawberry is exactly the same, but is red instead of blue and I don't see anything like him on the botia site. Like the Blue Botia, the red Botia has orange fins. I see from the site...

I have a 10G tank that has been set up for a couple of months. I started it with three platys, then later added a botia, and again recently added another platy and another botia. The new platy didn't survive 48 hours... but the real topic of my post is the interaction between the two botias...