Species

Nemacheilus masyai

A boldly patterned river loach that holds its own with attitude to spare.

Pangio oblonga

A slender, uniformly dark loach that loves company and hides in plain sight.

Ambastaia nigrolineata

A rare, sociable loach with bold racing stripes and fascinating group behaviors.

Balitoropsis zollingeri

A flat-bodied stream crawler that hops and clings across rocks like no other loach.

Nemacheilus troglocataractus

A blind, cave-dwelling loach from a single Thai cave system.

Schistura jarutanini

A blind cave loach from Thailand that science knows from just 22 specimens.

Pangio shelfordii

A patterned eel-loach from Borneo's blackwater forests, with surprising personality for its size.

Gastromyzon farragus

A tiny Bornean stream-clinger with a vivid red tail and bold territorial streaks.

Gastromyzon stellatus

A boldly spotted Bornean stream crawler that grazes rocks like a tiny vacuum.

Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei

A sociable little loach that thrives in groups and suits community stream tanks.

Gastromyzon viriosus

A patterned Bornean stream-clinger with surprising territorial attitude for its size.

Schistura deansmarti

A blind, ghostly cave loach found nowhere else on Earth.

Pseudogastromyzon myersi

A compact hillstream grazer that clings to rocks and cleans algae with surprising personality.

Nemacheilus corica

A spotted hill-stream loach that thrives with companions and a naturalistic setup.

Schistura pridii

A tiny, feisty loach with bold dragon-like patterning from Thai mountain streams.

Ambastaia sidthimunki

Tiny loach with big social rituals and a personality to match

Acanthopsoides molobrion

A pint-sized Bornean loach with a horse-faced look and big personality.

Acanthopsoides robertsi

A tiny burrowing loach with a distinctive caudal marking and big personality.

Acanthopsoides sp. "A02"

A tiny, sand-loving dwarf horse-face loach that's trickier to ID than to keep.

Pangio sp. "PAN02"

A mystery kuhli loach with sharp sub-ocular spines and a fondness for piling into hiding spots.

Gastromyzon ocellatus

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

Acanthopsoides namromensis

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

Schistura devdevi

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

Homaloptera ogilviei

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

Homaloptera sexmaculata

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

Homalopteroides modestus

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

Homalopteroides nebulosus

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

Homalopteroides stephensoni

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

Homalopteroides tweediei

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

Pangio doriae

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

Canthophrys gongota

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

Liniparhomaloptera disparis

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

Leptobotia taeniops

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

Micronemacheilus cruciatus

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

Lepidocephalichthys jonklaasi

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

Pangio kuhlii

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