Species

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.

Nemacheilus selangoricus

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

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.

Sinibotia robusta

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

Pangio doriae

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

Sinibotia pulchra

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

Canthophrys gongota

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

Balitora brucei

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

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.

Acantopsis choirorhynchos

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

Micronemacheilus cruciatus

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

Yunnanilus cruciatus

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

Yasuhikotakia splendida

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

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.

Pangio cuneovirgata

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

Pangio filinaris

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

Pangio malayana

A slender kuhli loach relative that travels incognito in mixed shipments

Pangio piperata

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

Pangio sp. "PAN03"

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

Botia rostrata

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

Petruichthys brevis

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

Homaloptera bilineata

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

Homaloptera leonardi

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

Homaloptera smithi

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

Homaloptera zollingeri

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

Homalopteroides smithi

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

Homalopterula gymnogaster

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