What Kuhli Loach Is This?

[haleem8777]

I picked up this fish from my LFS as it didn't look like the usual black kuhli loach, so what species is it?
 


 
It was hard to take clear pictures, all i can say it is slightish brown and is eel like so very thin

 

[RRaquariums]

So LFS often sell lots of loaches as kuhlis but they are often one of four or five different species now I know the one you have is brown just like the ones I have but they are called the black kuhli loach no idea why since they are brown but that's what they are called

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Start here http/www.loaches.com/species-index/pictorial-species-search-index/serpentine-loaches

 

[haleem8777]

I am 100% it is not a black kuhli loach as when i brought it it was in a tank with normal blacks and it was very different, also i have black kuhlis in my tank and it aint the same. its hard to see from the image but it is very very very thin.
 
I was searching and could it be a Pangio anguillaris or a similar species

 

[Baccus]

Does it have a forked tail or a rounded one?
I know there is a type of swamp eel that is often caught with khuli loaches and shipped off accidentially with the wanted khuli loach.

 

[haleem8777]

The loach has a normal tail that kuhli loach have. i was just looking at the loach closely and it is two shades a light brown on top and a even lighter colour on the bottom side. similar to this picture of google 

 

[haleem8777]

I managed to take some good shots of the loach, these be easier for identification.
 

 

[haleem8777]

Bump

 

[betta fish]

I think you are right in that it is probably anguillaris, I have an unknown Khuli that I got in a shipment some four years ago now I think it may be Filinaris? got the usual striped and then an oddity! strangely all the striped died off ( I think they had internal parasites ) but this one is still going strong, may have to get a few friends for it.


It could also be Doriae which is similar.

 

[haleem8777]

Yeah, it is probaly the eel kuhli loach, i have tried to get more in,so it can have some friends