Urbanaquatics Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 So I went to my LFS the other day and bought a bunch of new fish. I was sold these as kuhli loaches but I am sure that is wrong. I tried searching through the loach index on loaches.com, but I cannot find anything with the same markings. Anyone know what these are? https://imgur.com/O01ICJ4 https://imgur.com/a/ZXWORHm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickS77 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 My first guess is some kind of Darter Tetra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shkote Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Looks like a half banded loach- Schistura savona, not the half banded Kuhlis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbanaquatics Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 Lynze, thats not it, but thank you because looking for those helped me find them. I believe they are serpent loaches, Serpenticobitis octozona. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shkote Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 The bands do look more uniform on the serpent loach, I think you are correct. I've gotten all sorts of different things when I order Kuhli loaches. Half banded loaches were 1, got a panda garra once, I also got a handful of shelfordii, which was cool, I like them. They aren't "buds" with my banded kuhlis though and that's why I ordered them. I'm starting to think a lot of places just label "things with stripes that wiggle" as kuhlis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nataku Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Lynze said: I'm starting to think a lot of places just label "things with stripes that wiggle" as kuhlis They don't even have to have stripes to get called kuhli loaches! One store I went to had young dragon gobies listed a kuhli loaches. Those things get huge! And also arent even a loach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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