Loach ?

[Amerce]

Hi I've purchased what was being sold as horse faced loaches, now I know they can't be cause the originals only ever grew to around 2.5/3 inches, anyway I wanted some more and found these two other types, diff markings from the first ones and now know that they aren't horsefaced but possibly something like a Cobitis ?

Anyone know which subspecies they are cause I can't find an identical one on this website but then again I'm getting tired of looking

http/www.loaches.com/species-index/cobitis-choii

 

[Fella]

Loach aren't catfish. Alert a mod and I'm sure they'll move it to the right section for you.

 

[Rubix]

as said above... this is in the wrong place so your likely to not recieve the information you need...

do you have any better pictures? it's hard to determine which loach it is, not to mention those two do not look like the same fish at all.

 

[Amerce]

I have no idea who moved them here I certainly didn't as I've only posted on the catfish area.

Nope they are the best photo's I've got as this was the first time they sat still for any length of time, and they are two diff. types which is why their markings are diff.

The lfs is selling them as horse face and I bought them a month or so apart and didn't realise about them being diff markings till I had them together.

 

[Rubix]

your topic was moved because this is where loach discussion belongs, loaches are not catfish. no need for angry face, people just doin their job - and for your benefit

now, i do not know much about these kind of loaches, im a Botia and Yasuhikotakia person myself, but i can tell you neither of those are the common horseface loaches. i'd say your barking up the right tree with your Cobitis deduction though.

 

[mikev]

The identification is almost certainly wrong. Choii is unlikely to show up in imports, it comes from the area where there is not much fish collection.

There are MANY loaches that look similar to yours. Check other cobitids, and specifically Lepidocephalichthys and Misgurnus genera.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

The first loach kinda looks like a giant pepper loach;

http/www.loaches.com/species-index/lepid...hthys-berdmorei

Or Guntea Loach;

http/www.loaches.com/species-index/lepid...lichthys-guntea

Or Indian Spiny Loach

http/www.loaches.com/species-index/lepid...hthys-thermalis


Do any of these loaches match the first one, closely or not ?

 

[mikev]

Probably not Thermalis. (I keep them, it does not feel like a match, and the black line in the 2nd photo would be very atypical).
Guntea is what I was thinking of.

If ID is desirable, a decent photo would help.

 

[Amerce]

Not a giant loach as all of them are max 2.5/3 inches and are fully grown.

Not guntea or thermalis

Will try to get decent photo's but as they spend most of their timein the gravel or hidden in pots it can be quite hard, also think that one of the striped ones is a female as it is much fatter than the other. They all seem to gather together at meal times and stroke each other with their barbels so it is quite nice. May try to get more as I think they are great for moving gravel about and preventing dead spots.