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Loaches

Active, curious bottom-dwellers that often appreciate company of their own kind. Many loaches are notorious snail hunters and make good additions to planted tanks.

121 species

Eyespotted Borneo sucker

Eyespotted Borneo sucker

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Gastromyzon ocellatus

A patterned Bornean stream-clinger with a bold red tail and real personality.

False Spined Loach
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False Spined Loach

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Acanthopsoides namromensis

A tiny, rarely kept Vietnamese loach with quiet charm for the patient aquarist.

Fighting Loach

Fighting Loach

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Nemacheilus selangoricus

A scrappy little bottom-dweller from Borneo's fast forest streams.

Firefly Loach
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Firefly Loach

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Schistura devdevi

A tiny Himalayan stream loach sometimes traded as the firefly loach.

Gecko Loach

Gecko Loach

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Homaloptera ogilviei

A tiny blackwater loach that perches on its fin-tips like a lizard at rest.

Gecko Loach

Gecko Loach

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Homaloptera sexmaculata

A lizard-like hillstream loach that crawls and hops across rocks instead of swimming.

Gecko Loach

Gecko Loach

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Homalopteroides modestus

A tiny mountain stream loach that crawls and hops across rocks like no other fish.

Gecko Loach
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Gecko Loach

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Homalopteroides nebulosus

A tiny forest-stream loach that crawls and hops rather than swims.

Gecko Loach
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Gecko Loach

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Homalopteroides stephensoni

A rare Bornean hillstream loach that crawls and hops across rocks like a tiny lizard.

Gecko Loach
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Gecko Loach

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Homalopteroides tweediei

A tiny hillstream crawler that hops and clings its way across the riverbed.

Golden Chinese Loach

Golden Chinese Loach

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Sinibotia robusta

A stocky, sociable Chinese loach that rewards patient keepers with fascinating group dynamics.

Golden Kuhli Loach
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Golden Kuhli Loach

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Pangio doriae

A worm-like peat swamp loach that loves to pile into hiding spots with its companions.

Golden Zebra Loach
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Golden Zebra Loach

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Sinibotia pulchra

A sociable, sinuous loach that needs its own kind to truly thrive.

Gongota Loach

Gongota Loach

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Canthophrys gongota

A rarely traded loach from Himalayan foothills that rewards patient, specialist keepers.

Gray's Stone Loach
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Gray's Stone Loach

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Balitora brucei

A flattened hill-stream grazer that thrives where the current runs wild.

Homaloptera Hoffmani

Homaloptera Hoffmani

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Liniparhomaloptera disparis

A tiny mountain stream hillstream loach with surprisingly bold territorial behavior.

Honeycomb Loach
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Honeycomb Loach

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Leptobotia taeniops

A sociable Chinese loach with a bold personality and a taste for company.

Horse Face Loach

Horse Face Loach

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Acantopsis choirorhynchos

A burrowing, long-snouted loach that vanishes into the sand and rarely looks back.

Hovering Zebra Loach
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Hovering Zebra Loach

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Micronemacheilus cruciatus

A tiny Vietnamese loach that hovers in midwater and thrives in groups

Hovering Zebra Loach
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Hovering Zebra Loach

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Yunnanilus cruciatus

A tiny Vietnamese loach that hovers in open water, unlike most of its relatives.

Jaguar Loach

Jaguar Loach

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Yasuhikotakia splendida

A rare Mekong loach with bold spots, yellow fins, and fascinating social rituals.

Jonklaas's Loach
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Jonklaas's Loach

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Lepidocephalichthys jonklaasi

A rare Sri Lankan loach hidden beneath leaf litter, seldom seen in the hobby.

Kuhli Loach

Kuhli Loach

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Pangio kuhlii

The eel-like bottom dweller that disappears for weeks and reappears at midnight.

Kuhli Loach

Kuhli Loach

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Pangio cuneovirgata

A rare kuhli lookalike from blackwater peat swamps, seldom seen outside expert collections.

Kuhli Loach

Kuhli Loach

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Pangio filinaris

A slender, plain-bodied eel loach from the forested streams of peninsular Malaysia.

Kuhli Loach

Kuhli Loach

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Pangio malayana

A slender kuhli loach relative that travels incognito in mixed shipments

Kuhli Loach

Kuhli Loach

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Pangio piperata

A speckled, secretive kuhli loach that turns up as a mystery in mixed shipments.

Kuhli Loach

Kuhli Loach

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Pangio sp. "PAN03"

A mystery kuhli loach from Borneo that science hasn't named yet.

Ladder Loach

Ladder Loach

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Botia rostrata

A boldly barred loach with a complex social life and real personality.

Lake Inle Red-tailed Loach
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Lake Inle Red-tailed Loach

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Petruichthys brevis

A tiny loach from Myanmar's famous Inle Lake, best kept in groups.

Lizard Loach

Lizard Loach

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Homaloptera bilineata

A tiny torrent-dweller that crawls and hops across rocks like no other fish.

Lizard Loach

Lizard Loach

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Homaloptera leonardi

A tiny hillstream crawler that clings to rocks and hops across the riverbed.

Lizard Loach

Lizard Loach

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Homaloptera smithi

A fast-water hillstream loach that crawls and hops across rocks like a tiny lizard.

Lizard Loach

Lizard Loach

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Homaloptera zollingeri

A flattened, rock-clinging stream dweller that crawls and hops like a lizard.

Lizard Loach

Lizard Loach

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Homalopteroides smithi

A rock-clinging hill stream loach that crawls and hops like a tiny lizard.

Lizard Loach
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Lizard Loach

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Homalopterula gymnogaster

A tiny Sumatran hillstream loach that crawls and hops across rocks like a lizard.