G'Day all I was wondering if anyone kept or has had any experience of breeding Pakistani Loaches (Botia lohachata) ? I currently have 3 one of which I can only assume is a female that is ready to breed (if her girth is anything to go by). She is absolutely huge 
around the middle so much so that her stomach literally holds the rest of her off the floor of the aquarium. Any way I was hoping that somebody might be able to tell me how to hopefully get her to spawn. She (along with the 2 smaller ones and the growing out Bristlenoses) all eat plenty of squashed snails, they get flakes, sinking algea wafers and sinking shrimp pellets. If one of the smaller Pak's turns out to be a male would I be better off issolating the two and possibly have either warmer or cooler water with less or more light to try and encourage them to breed. The current water temp is around the 20 degrees C mark and they currently get around 8hrs of light in the tank. Also if they do spawn does anyone know the colour of the eggs and where they are likely to hide them (since kuhli loaches are known for having greenish eggs stuck to plants near the water surface). Any help would be appreciated by not only me but probably also the loach as I can't imagine she'd be very comfortable being as huge as she is. Thanks
around the middle so much so that her stomach literally holds the rest of her off the floor of the aquarium. Any way I was hoping that somebody might be able to tell me how to hopefully get her to spawn. She (along with the 2 smaller ones and the growing out Bristlenoses) all eat plenty of squashed snails, they get flakes, sinking algea wafers and sinking shrimp pellets. If one of the smaller Pak's turns out to be a male would I be better off issolating the two and possibly have either warmer or cooler water with less or more light to try and encourage them to breed. The current water temp is around the 20 degrees C mark and they currently get around 8hrs of light in the tank. Also if they do spawn does anyone know the colour of the eggs and where they are likely to hide them (since kuhli loaches are known for having greenish eggs stuck to plants near the water surface). Any help would be appreciated by not only me but probably also the loach as I can't imagine she'd be very comfortable being as huge as she is. Thanks
of either putting all the Pak's in either the bathtub that doubles as a pond in the yard that currently only has some reject guppies and weed in or the 1000L pond that has some huge goldfish and 2 Gold gouramis in there (with a water lilly the Gold fish haven't managed to destroy 
and plenty of bricks as hiding places) however if either of these did induce the Pak's to breed I would be still none the wiser on how they went about it or what triggered a spawning. Although if they did breed at least I would know that it is possible. I did read on another site somewhere that somebody reckoned their Pak's spawned and the female guarded the large yellow eggs but I can't find any further referance to the one off posting.
