Hey i have a s.o.s with one of my bettas I’m sorry to be asking you like this but idk what to do. He’s bitting his tail but his in a 10 gallon with more then enough fun (please believe me when i say he is a very happy fish. Never been aggressive with his tank mates. Very social. Loves to play and show off) but idk what to do anymore. I got betta fix. I did 10% water changes but it’s still happening:( he’s my baby to say i have a emotional attachment to him is a understatement:(
@@Red.Rabbit. i would do a 50% water change.... add some almond leaves or alder cones (anything with tannins with soothe his biofilm and scales). Then you could add a cap of stress coat if you have it (promotes biofilm). Also live plants are key. Feeding him some live food and making sure his temp is in the 70s...will keep him preoccupied (a mirror can also help distract him from his own tail. If all that fails, it's likely a parasite or irritation that general cure by API will fix. Goodluck
My dad got my into aquascaping/aquarium hobby recently. I saw Kuhli loaches while waiting for my cherry shrimps to be bagged and I fell in love INSTANTLY. I want a whole tank full of them. They have my entire heart.
“He named them that, ummm.... because he was a narcissist!” ...omg, I almost spit my coffee out! Love your videos... oddly, entertaining, as usual! Lol 😂
I had 10 black ones and a few striped ones in my 100g. Looking at the tank where “Loach Rock” is I thought I saw tiny worms! They had babies!!!! 5 of them❤️ And tonight I just noticed that one of them is huge! I think she’s pregnant 😍 also just had 2 pepper Corys lay eggs. 👏👏
Everyone keeps saying these loaches are incredibly hard to breed and it’s complicated to have everything in ur tank perfect. That’s a laugh lol a year ago I got 3 black Kuhil loaches and 2 striped. Well, they are breeding like CRAZY now UNINTENTIONALLY!!
I have been so patiently waiting to add these fish to my tank. Not much info on them in the fish world. Thanks for giving more detailed info on their needs.
Of course! I love them hehe. They will hide a lot, so try feeding them at night, with lights dim and also make them a few hides or caves up against the glass. .like leave one wall exposed via glass, sometimes you can watch then all sleep in a pile, tangled up
I just found you and started watching. You go into great detail about your fish than most. I hope you keep doing that as everyone can learn. Best wishes to you! I plan to get the loaches soon!
I've loved and kept khulis since I got my first tank 40yrs ago. Tiny eyes, mouths and barbels makes them adorable. They bred best for me in a tank that had pea gravel with a ugf.
Just got me 2 (they only had the 2) little tiny baby's of these I happened upon at the lfs 😅 so much for the amno shrimps lol I did however settle for a nerite snail for my mild green spot algea on my glass of the 29 I'm to lazy for glass scraping 😅 I'd like to keep up my almost 2 year streak of not doing that 😅 glad you did a species spotlight on these ❤
Heinrich Kuhl was not a narcistic nationalist but a very open minded naturalist. This loach was named after him long after his death. In fact many animals were named after him. His early death was very sad. He dies of an infection on tzhe ilsand Java, his only expedition to the tropics, after climbing a big mountain.People said he would have become a second Linneus.
I seriously love my noodle fish. The only thing I don't like about em is that it's always a tossup on whether newly purchased loaches will survive or not, which is part of why I want to eventually breed them. More kuhlis can only be a good thing!!
I agree 100%... seems like lots of fish die in the first 2 weeks, or live for years. (It's stressful to go from farm/wild to wholesaler to local retailer then through the mail or a car ride and into a new tank for the 3rd to 5th time in most cases
Honestly ive only breed a few babies each time, so sadly im not the best at getting the fry to survive, but seem to be able to get them into spawning conditions easily in those parameters
Hi there! I have a newly established 75 gallon dirted substrate tank capped with sand that I just added 7 kuhli loaches to. Tank was stable but now sruggling to get the ammonia and nitrites to stay down. None of them were acting stressed the first few days until today when the largest one has become frantic for hours at a time the entire day, practically jumping out of the water over and over across the surface. I made sure they had food, I have a wave maker and two air stones, they have tons of hiding places and there are 20 plants in the tank, smaller in size but growing and I tried dimming lights and turning them off for extended periods. If only one loach is behaving that way is it still likely issues with water quality or could it be something else? I also checked for signs of gill burn but I can see nothing at all different in coloration from the pictures I see online. Thanks so much!
I have 4, one of which I think is preggers. They were biting the fins of my Betta so I removed them and they are in their own 10g tank. Betta seems happier now.
Kuhlis do great in numbers, i have 25 in my 180l community tank and they always come out. Ive not really seen mine eating my cherry shrimps, i take around 50 cherry shrimp out every couple of months because they breed that much lol.. i am hoping mine start to breed soon as id like to try get some albinos!!
I too love kuhli loaches ...mine come out all of the time to eat the wafers and shrimp food. They thrive in a lush planted tank with lots of moss and water lettuce. Sometimes they go swimming around like crazy. I am hoping to breed them...one of them is already showing signs of pregnancy. I only have six of them but plan to set up a larger tank and get ten more.💓 they are so cute and entertaining.
I love Kuhlis! I have 3 now they’ve made burrows under my dragon stone and the only time I see them is at feeding time they come out for pleco bug bites or frozen brine shrimp/bloodworms and algae wafers. It’s like they sense as soon as it hits the water and they have no problem finding it!!! Also at night when I have the tank light off but there is ambient light from a lamp in my bedroom they come out and swim around the top of the tank for hours!!! Lol it’s cool to see them swim around
Right on! Theyre very social fish, so they are more funny and outgoing the more you have in a group... at night they usually sleep together in a group called a "Tangle " of Loaches
They are beautiful fish. I have hundreds of cherry shrimp living with them. If they eat the babies I don’t mind. I’ve seen my tiny green neons even eat the tiniest shrimplets!
when I was a kid (I am 48 now) I had many of these and they LOVED eating tubifex worms...I would stick a cube on the glass just above the substrate and they would all come out and gobble them up.
I have been wanting these for a very long time, but didn't seem to have the right space or what not. I finally got 10 of them tonight and I am absolutely in love with them. I guess we will see if I will continue to love them. It's so fun trying to spot them and watch them wiggle. 😆😍
I have a pair of khuli loaches and I've been watching them for ages it's nice to hear about them and learn! I'm quite luckily mine like to live right at the front of the tank and are fairly sociable! Deffinatly got eggs aswell!
@@mdcclxxviepluribusunum1066 in a 10 gallon well planted do well mine never try to scape I have 1 inch under water lane and floating plants with lots of caves cherry shrimps make they way out and loaches may help with the snails too
Depends on the character and circumstances.The six I keep are in a community with shrimp and snail and a Betta and feel safe.Except for one they zigzag around the tank during feeding time.Once the feeding time is over they huddle up in the most weird places until the night comes.But I get to see them plenty of times during day time as I feed the Betta three times.
Yes. They are very cute. Mine like to sort of lie on top of each other, they’re always together. I have four of them, and I noticed one female became very large. She liked to hang between the plants, with her belly pressed against the glass. I could see the eggs, so I put all four of them in a smaller aquarium of their own, with floating plants. I read that the female deposits her eggs against the surface of the water, but they’re in there since 24-09-2019, and still nothing happened. I also read that if she can’t lay her eggs, she’ll die, because the eggs then become petrified. I’ve had them for almost two years now, and it seems that they are hard to breed. How long will she carry those eggs?
You can only tell the sex by seeing their belly full of eggs, like this one looked. The male has slightly longer paired fins,.and supposedly the males are more vividly yellow...but i cant see a difference personally
Unfortunately I do not. Tinwini danios and Phoenix rasbora are both a bit hard to find sincr covid messed up supply lines.. however aquaticarts.com often has small amounts in stock and you can get 15% off using the code HISTORYSECRET15 or 10% off 2nd or 3rd time orders with HISTORYSECRET10. Hope that helps a little bit?? The micro rasborss are a bit hard to find this year
Great video, thank you. I've wanted Kuhli Loaches for a while, my water parameters are all good & the tank has plenty of hiding places for them but I only have a 14 by 14 by 14 inch tank, is this too small? I'm guessing it is but really hoping it isn't 🫤 If too small what is the smallest size you'd recommend please?
Umm they do hide most the time...so I'd say you could keep 3 or 4 in there If there's rock piles/sand and low to the ground vegetation. But you really won't see their full potential in anything under about a 20g 30 inch x 12x 12 tank....because at 2 or 3 years old they can be 4 inches or even more...and really like to zip around at night
Great video, one of my favorite fishies, I really love them. They act like little goobers all the time and as you noted, are just extremely peaceful and sweet. Unless you're a shrimp. Lmao
I have three! Two big albino weather loaches (noodle bois, even though one is a girl) and one smaller stripped loach. (Spicy noodle) they are my pride and joy!! They are very personable and if you feed them on a schedule, wash your hands and youll see they atart coming up to you and try chomping on your fingers! Cutest boys out there.
I've had mine for 4 years and unfortunately they all passed due to an ammonia spike when I went to truck school. I had someone watching them, but nobody takes care of your stuff the way you do. And it hurt my soul to lose them because they been with me from 2018 almost through 2022, survived three moves and multiple tank changes.
Really loved this video on my long time favourite fish! I learnt everything I wanted to and way more. Thanks! Your Kuhl-i / narcissist comment made me spill my drink but worth it!
Its actually just a neutral ph 7 and tds of 150 or so (tds being almost completely from egg shells ground up, since the tap water is 10 to 30 tds out of my tap here in Seattle
I also moved the pregnant looking aka "eggy looking female" and male when i saw her appearing so loaded with eggs. This video was an opportunity for me to film them right before moving them to a 20 long that had 2 powerheads, and a few catapa leaves over pebbles in it, with some plants, but nothing other than some shrimp and otocinctlus in the tank. That's where she dropped the eggs
No problem! Sounds plenty big enough for all that and more...especially with some plants and or some sand for them to hide and rest in, during the daylight hours.
Yes yes, good point! And it lowers the ph significantly....so as long as you aerate the tank, you can do a nearly black water tank with them....and then never see them again haha
I know this is an old video, but hopefully, someone can tell me what those tall green plants in the front of the aquarium are. I would like to find out more about them.
I have had kuhlis that would come out late at night and swim and swim and swim,(once they were comfortable in my tank which took months) super fun fish! They stole my heart! Do you have a video on how to keep shrimp in the same tank with your fish?
I have several videos on which fish are least likely to eat your shrimp and some on various combos ive done. You can keep shrimp with like any nano fish pretty much, but they will eat the babies most the time
They are indeed very kool definitely one of my favorite fish. I wish I could breed them but I have to sell one of my kids first to make room for more tanks.
I finally got some to live (I have wanted some since a friend had some when I was little) and I gave them some crab the other day, and those nocturnal loaches went crazy for it!
Yeah you can see the egg sacs running lateral along both sides of her flanks... Very gravid!! Hey how low can these go? I hear 72 up to as hot as 84 but that range seems insane to me!!?
They can go down to 68 if it's gradual ...probably colder even. But to spawn you want them at about 82 then drop that water tds to under 200 and ph to 6..0 or lower, with the temperature about 76
Which simulates that monsoon season of localized flooding of their streams and rice paddy/wetlands...so often i also switch from half filled warm water tanks to fully filled and 8 degree cooler -clean water thats had almond leaves stewing in a bucket for 24 to 72 hours to get the acidity and tannins
Usually in grass or glosso/monte carlo they will bed down and kinda make paths on it in the back or along rocks...but they dont usually dig anything rooted up....other than if they create a little den or nest at night ...but theyll all pick a place to sleep together and stay there every night usually. So no biggie
I’ve had mine for over a year and they’ve gone from looking like little pieces of string to beefy 5 inch monsters. They are totally placid but very goofy like a lot of loaches are and often crash into other fish while doing their nightly ‘glass surfing’ workout! I use a cheap WiFi camera on night vision to watch their antics while I work night shifts, I love them! I have several videos of them if you wanted to check out what you have in store, from juveniles to grown. They’re definitely one of my favourite fish👍🏼
I think I have 2 kuhlis, (ive only see one at a time) but i don't think eat my shrimp because my shrimp are breeding A LOT so if they do eat them it's not a big deal.
I love this fish 😊 They are adoreble and they love lots of plants. Mine love hanging around in my Limnophila plants, eating everything they can find. They are very friendy towards other fish, but One of mine is simply an ashole. It was eating at my Bettas fins when he was resting at the bottom. And if a fish was sick and very still, it will try to eat at their fins. My Betta is in a different aquarium now of course. And my other khuli loaches are kind.
That's usually the case. It's a bit rate to catch a glimpse of the females if they have eggs ready to lay (which is the only sure-fire way to confirm their sex.)
They must have, although I never found them in their tank. But there were about 4 or 5 babies If I recall...parents ate most of the babies because I didn't get them out of the breeding tank (5gallon planted) fast enough.
I would recommend you adding amazon frogbit into your aquarium , this is because kuhli loaches love to hide in the roots and use them like hammocks , even though amazon frogbit is from the Amazon river in Brazil and kuhli loaches come from Indonesia i believe that in the wild they just must have had floating plants in their environment , i have seen my kuhli loaches everyday do this. I think the reason why they are muscular is for this very reason that they cling onto floating plants for safety so i hope this helps you. I'm not sure if this is just my discovery or not.
@@Fishtory Also do you know maybe what types of floating plants are in Indonesia? they feel right at home with the frogbit but i'm not sure what type of plant they are used to . I tried looking everywhere for an answer but i could not find it anywhere.
@@blooky102 well they live in streams with sand and gravel along creek beds in some cases...so just grasses or plants like valesenaria. However they have expanded widely, over the last 4,000 years of irrigation and rice fields. So they like rice plants and mulmy mucky shallow ponds as well. So water lettuce and even red or green mangrove tree and roots are popular
I’ve got a similarly densely planted tank but I’ve got 6 kuhli loaches in mine. Perhaps because I have more I see mine all the time during the day, wiggling between plants. So I recommend buying more.
Yes some species can interbreed also. Dojo loaches can even get pregnant by males from 4 or 5 wild species! There's some interesting info out there on them
Nice video! It has been a long time since I have been active. Sorry for not being able to watch any of your livestream. Too stretch over teaching online students. Good luck my friend!
Awww thanks, Cynthia! It's great to see/hear from you! I hope you are healthy and doing well. Best wishes, and thanks again for stopping by the channel! Cheers.
My kuhlis sometimes go crazy and swim up and down and right to left. Water parameters are ok temperature is 26°. I'm not worried but I'd like to know what they are up to. I've read somewhere that fish do that when atmospheric pressure changes but I'm not quite sure if that's true. P.S. My wife's also thinks they are creepy lol
Probably spawning behavior actually. Sometimes they just do it a few times, but if its for more than a minute its probably a female with eggs and they release pherimones.
Lots of reports about Kuhlis and Neocaridina not working together, then also lots of reports of people with both having a shrimp outbreak. Myself included just have lots of cover.
The lady at the store showed me them and was like “people either hate them or love them” and i took one look at that face and needed it
I think they're adorable little horse faced dragons
Hey i have a s.o.s with one of my bettas I’m sorry to be asking you like this but idk what to do. He’s bitting his tail but his in a 10 gallon with more then enough fun (please believe me when i say he is a very happy fish. Never been aggressive with his tank mates. Very social. Loves to play and show off) but idk what to do anymore. I got betta fix. I did 10% water changes but it’s still happening:( he’s my baby to say i have a emotional attachment to him is a understatement:(
@@Red.Rabbit. i would do a 50% water change.... add some almond leaves or alder cones (anything with tannins with soothe his biofilm and scales). Then you could add a cap of stress coat if you have it (promotes biofilm). Also live plants are key. Feeding him some live food and making sure his temp is in the 70s...will keep him preoccupied (a mirror can also help distract him from his own tail.
If all that fails, it's likely a parasite or irritation that general cure by API will fix. Goodluck
gg@@Fishtory
I thought they looked like a Shinkansen lol
My dad got my into aquascaping/aquarium hobby recently. I saw Kuhli loaches while waiting for my cherry shrimps to be bagged and I fell in love INSTANTLY. I want a whole tank full of them. They have my entire heart.
how you caught those from that heavy planted tank is impressive in itself
Lol i suppose it was! Thanks
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@@Fishtorydo you have a secret khuli loach catching secret?!
“He named them that, ummm.... because he was a narcissist!” ...omg, I almost spit my coffee out! Love your videos... oddly, entertaining, as usual! Lol 😂
I'm going to name mine coffee now
I read this comment like seconds maybe a minute before this comment. I am like 😂 this one won the day.
I had 10 black ones and a few striped ones in my 100g. Looking at the tank where “Loach Rock” is I thought I saw tiny worms! They had babies!!!! 5 of them❤️ And tonight I just noticed that one of them is huge! I think she’s pregnant 😍 also just had 2 pepper Corys lay eggs. 👏👏
Oooo exciting times! Congrats
Everyone keeps saying these loaches are incredibly hard to breed and it’s complicated to have everything in ur tank perfect. That’s a laugh lol a year ago I got 3 black Kuhil loaches and 2 striped. Well, they are breeding like CRAZY now UNINTENTIONALLY!!
Nice!
How is your tank set up?
@@RoyalMetal9 55g planted tank and driftwood
I have a kuhli loach that has been in my tank for at least 10 or 15 years
I have been so patiently waiting to add these fish to my tank. Not much info on them in the fish world. Thanks for giving more detailed info on their needs.
Of course! I love them hehe. They will hide a lot, so try feeding them at night, with lights dim and also make them a few hides or caves up against the glass. .like leave one wall exposed via glass, sometimes you can watch then all sleep in a pile, tangled up
I just found you and started watching. You go into great detail about your fish than most. I hope you keep doing that as everyone can learn. Best wishes to you! I plan to get the loaches soon!
I've loved and kept khulis since I got my first tank 40yrs ago. Tiny eyes, mouths and barbels makes them adorable. They bred best for me in a tank that had pea gravel with a ugf.
Doesn’t the undergravel filter suck the eggs?
I have 4 of these guys and they are probably my favorite fish I love when they noodle out of their hiding spots to see what’s going on
I know! They're pretty adorable :) thanks for coming by
I love the nickname 'danger noodle' for these guys. Just ordered some of these, can't wait for them to arrive
Haha I can't remember where that started, but it's a thing now I guess lol
Just got me 2 (they only had the 2) little tiny baby's of these I happened upon at the lfs 😅 so much for the amno shrimps lol I did however settle for a nerite snail for my mild green spot algea on my glass of the 29 I'm to lazy for glass scraping 😅 I'd like to keep up my almost 2 year streak of not doing that 😅 glad you did a species spotlight on these ❤
Heinrich Kuhl was not a narcistic nationalist but a very open minded naturalist. This loach was named after him long after his death. In fact many animals were named after him. His early death was very sad. He dies of an infection on tzhe ilsand Java, his only expedition to the tropics, after climbing a big mountain.People said he would have become a second Linneus.
I was just joking... but great info, thank you
I can listen to your voice for hours. Love your passion for the lifestyle
Awww thank you so kindly. Welcome
I seriously love my noodle fish. The only thing I don't like about em is that it's always a tossup on whether newly purchased loaches will survive or not, which is part of why I want to eventually breed them. More kuhlis can only be a good thing!!
I agree 100%... seems like lots of fish die in the first 2 weeks, or live for years. (It's stressful to go from farm/wild to wholesaler to local retailer then through the mail or a car ride and into a new tank for the 3rd to 5th time in most cases
Oh man, just got my noodles today, I hope mine will survive 😢
Just got 6 of them! They were soooo thin so I fed them good and now they are good. So adorable:)
Nice! Apparently they like baby shrimp...and medium shrimp...plus any daphnia, blood worms and so forth.
Hoping there was more info on actually breeding them.
Honestly ive only breed a few babies each time, so sadly im not the best at getting the fry to survive, but seem to be able to get them into spawning conditions easily in those parameters
Hi there!
I have a newly established 75 gallon dirted substrate tank capped with sand that I just added 7 kuhli loaches to. Tank was stable but now sruggling to get the ammonia and nitrites to stay down. None of them were acting stressed the first few days until today when the largest one has become frantic for hours at a time the entire day, practically jumping out of the water over and over across the surface. I made sure they had food, I have a wave maker and two air stones, they have tons of hiding places and there are 20 plants in the tank, smaller in size but growing and I tried dimming lights and turning them off for extended periods. If only one loach is behaving that way is it still likely issues with water quality or could it be something else? I also checked for signs of gill burn but I can see nothing at all different in coloration from the pictures I see online. Thanks so much!
As long as the ammonia is testing low...its just loaches being loaches ..theyre Nocturnal usually too
I have 4, one of which I think is preggers. They were biting the fins of my Betta so I removed them and they are in their own 10g tank. Betta seems happier now.
Kuhlis do great in numbers, i have 25 in my 180l community tank and they always come out. Ive not really seen mine eating my cherry shrimps, i take around 50 cherry shrimp out every couple of months because they breed that much lol.. i am hoping mine start to breed soon as id like to try get some albinos!!
Awesome! Keep us posted please!
I too love kuhli loaches ...mine come out all of the time to eat the wafers and shrimp food. They thrive in a lush planted tank with lots of moss and water lettuce. Sometimes they go swimming around like crazy. I am hoping to breed them...one of them is already showing signs of pregnancy. I only have six of them but plan to set up a larger tank and get ten more.💓 they are so cute and entertaining.
I love Kuhlis! I have 3 now they’ve made burrows under my dragon stone and the only time I see them is at feeding time they come out for pleco bug bites or frozen brine shrimp/bloodworms and algae wafers. It’s like they sense as soon as it hits the water and they have no problem finding it!!! Also at night when I have the tank light off but there is ambient light from a lamp in my bedroom they come out and swim around the top of the tank for hours!!! Lol it’s cool to see them swim around
I wish i had a tank that shrimp and fish both were breeding that much that’s awesome
I got a kuhli loach as a gift a week ago and I fell inlove with it, it's in my Platty and guppy tank and I'm getting 3 more of them this weekend.
Right on! Theyre very social fish, so they are more funny and outgoing the more you have in a group... at night they usually sleep together in a group called a "Tangle " of Loaches
Question is how in the heck did you capture them in that planted tank 🤔
No food for 3 days then blood worms at night and turned on the lights when they were eating at 3am or so
Exactly. You basically have to destroy the tank to catch them.
They are beautiful fish. I have hundreds of cherry shrimp living with them. If they eat the babies I don’t mind. I’ve seen my tiny green neons even eat the tiniest shrimplets!
when I was a kid (I am 48 now) I had many of these and they LOVED eating tubifex worms...I would stick a cube on the glass just above the substrate and they would all come out and gobble them up.
They're an oldie but goodie haha
I have been wanting these for a very long time, but didn't seem to have the right space or what not. I finally got 10 of them tonight and I am absolutely in love with them. I guess we will see if I will continue to love them. It's so fun trying to spot them and watch them wiggle. 😆😍
I have a pair of khuli loaches and I've been watching them for ages it's nice to hear about them and learn! I'm quite luckily mine like to live right at the front of the tank and are fairly sociable! Deffinatly got eggs aswell!
Right on!
I was thinking adding some kuhlis to my community, but after this video I will not because I want to keep my shrimplets haha
I dont have any problems have lot of baby shrimp they can eat some sure but not all
That’s usually the case when a tank is too small to home both
@@mdcclxxviepluribusunum1066 in a 10 gallon well planted do well mine never try to scape I have 1 inch under water lane and floating plants with lots of caves cherry shrimps make they way out and loaches may help with the snails too
Depends on the character and circumstances.The six I keep are in a community with shrimp and snail and a Betta and feel safe.Except for one they zigzag around the tank during feeding time.Once the feeding time is over they huddle up in the most weird places until the night comes.But I get to see them plenty of times during day time as I feed the Betta three times.
They are not labirynth fish but have an air breathing system like corys.
Well that's exactly what i said in the video haha... good to confirm. Thanks Pup!
I have a PH of 8.4 and my Kuhli is almost ten years old. I had two until one got stuck in the filter.
Whoa! Right on. That's a great story. There's always exceptions to the "rules"
Yes. They are very cute. Mine like to sort of lie on top of each other, they’re always together. I have four of them, and I noticed one female became very large. She liked to hang between the plants, with her belly pressed against the glass. I could see the eggs, so I put all four of them in a smaller aquarium of their own, with floating plants. I read that the female deposits her eggs against the surface of the water, but they’re in there since 24-09-2019, and still nothing happened. I also read that if she can’t lay her eggs, she’ll die, because the eggs then become petrified. I’ve had them for almost two years now, and it seems that they are hard to breed. How long will she carry those eggs?
Is my kuhli loach male of female it's color is black how can I tell i want to make many of them so I can sell
You can only tell the sex by seeing their belly full of eggs, like this one looked. The male has slightly longer paired fins,.and supposedly the males are more vividly yellow...but i cant see a difference personally
Hi, what is the fish on minute 1:40" do you have those to ship? Thank you
Unfortunately I do not. Tinwini danios and Phoenix rasbora are both a bit hard to find sincr covid messed up supply lines.. however aquaticarts.com often has small amounts in stock and you can get 15% off using the code HISTORYSECRET15 or 10% off 2nd or 3rd time orders with HISTORYSECRET10. Hope that helps a little bit?? The micro rasborss are a bit hard to find this year
Great video, thank you. I've wanted Kuhli Loaches for a while, my water parameters are all good & the tank has plenty of hiding places for them but I only have a 14 by 14 by 14 inch tank, is this too small? I'm guessing it is but really hoping it isn't 🫤 If too small what is the smallest size you'd recommend please?
Umm they do hide most the time...so I'd say you could keep 3 or 4 in there If there's rock piles/sand and low to the ground vegetation. But you really won't see their full potential in anything under about a 20g 30 inch x 12x 12 tank....because at 2 or 3 years old they can be 4 inches or even more...and really like to zip around at night
Great video, one of my favorite fishies, I really love them. They act like little goobers all the time and as you noted, are just extremely peaceful and sweet. Unless you're a shrimp. Lmao
Haha spot on! They're really fun
I have 6 Khuli loaches for 10 years. Multiple moves and tanks rescapes. They come out during the day for food.
I have three! Two big albino weather loaches (noodle bois, even though one is a girl) and one smaller stripped loach. (Spicy noodle) they are my pride and joy!! They are very personable and if you feed them on a schedule, wash your hands and youll see they atart coming up to you and try chomping on your fingers! Cutest boys out there.
Super cool! Thanks for the tip
I realize this is an old video but ….I can’t imagine how you caught those from that tank !
Lol miracle
I've had mine for 4 years and unfortunately they all passed due to an ammonia spike when I went to truck school. I had someone watching them, but nobody takes care of your stuff the way you do. And it hurt my soul to lose them because they been with me from 2018 almost through 2022, survived three moves and multiple tank changes.
Sorry to hear that.. unfortunately I've been there with several beloved fish
do you know if they can eat snails?
Only new born sized ones. Nothing over the size of a black bean
@@Fishtory great !thanks
I just found a chocolate kuhli fry in my community tank and it's the cutest thing I've ever seen 😭🥰
Really loved this video on my long time favourite fish! I learnt everything I wanted to and way more. Thanks! Your Kuhl-i / narcissist comment made me spill my drink but worth it!
Haha sorry- not sorry. Lol thanks for tuning in and dropping a line
Way more information than I’m looking for, but your voice is so adorable, I don’t mind. 🥰
Shucks
So true. I can listen to you all day. Oh wait. I do.
Love your tanks dudes, they are amazing
Thank you
If have worms what treatment can we give them
In the USA... levamisol and or any dog or cat dewormers... other countries... livestock dewormer sometimes, or a vet. It's very tricky
Great video! Heater or no heater for the kuhlie loaches? Thanks! 😎
Probably best to have a heater in the low to mid 70s Fahrenheit
I was going to put them in the ram blackwater at 81, too much?
okay, how did you catch them in that tank? They are so hard to catch.
How do you spawn kuhlis in hard water? You had them in with guppies.
Its actually just a neutral ph 7 and tds of 150 or so (tds being almost completely from egg shells ground up, since the tap water is 10 to 30 tds out of my tap here in Seattle
I also moved the pregnant looking aka "eggy looking female" and male when i saw her appearing so loaded with eggs. This video was an opportunity for me to film them right before moving them to a 20 long that had 2 powerheads, and a few catapa leaves over pebbles in it, with some plants, but nothing other than some shrimp and otocinctlus in the tank. That's where she dropped the eggs
2-4 kuhli loaches in a 15 gal? I really want them and already preordered from my lfs. All my tanks are heavily planted
No problem! Sounds plenty big enough for all that and more...especially with some plants and or some sand for them to hide and rest in, during the daylight hours.
Kuhlis love to spawn and hide under loads of catappa leaves.
Yes yes, good point! And it lowers the ph significantly....so as long as you aerate the tank, you can do a nearly black water tank with them....and then never see them again haha
My kuhlis actually shows more often when my catappa leaves starts to settle at the front beach :D
Do they eat small fish, like guppy's fry?
They eat shrimp and eggs...but I have not seen them hunt live fry ever
I know this is an old video, but hopefully, someone can tell me what those tall green plants in the front of the aquarium are. I would like to find out more about them.
Hydrocotyle verticilata
I have had kuhlis that would come out late at night and swim and swim and swim,(once they were comfortable in my tank which took months) super fun fish! They stole my heart! Do you have a video on how to keep shrimp in the same tank with your fish?
I have several videos on which fish are least likely to eat your shrimp and some on various combos ive done. You can keep shrimp with like any nano fish pretty much, but they will eat the babies most the time
Watching this because I was only supposed to have 4 banded and 2 calicos....saw a 5th banded one tonight much smaller than the rest!
Will they eat snails? I was hoping not. They are very interesting.
Wow that’s a beautiful tank!
They are indeed very kool definitely one of my favorite fish.
I wish I could breed them but I have to sell one of my kids first to make room for more tanks.
I understand
I have 10 of them in a platy breeding pond, although I would love to move them all into a breeding tank of their own, and Im definitely planning to!
Rad
I finally got some to live (I have wanted some since a friend had some when I was little) and I gave them some crab the other day, and those nocturnal loaches went crazy for it!
Niiice!
How did you catch them with out destroying this beautiful aqua garden Alex?
Night time flashlights and food.... and some large nets with another small net to chase them into the bigger net
@Fishtory thank you Bud!
Yeah you can see the egg sacs running lateral along both sides of her flanks... Very gravid!! Hey how low can these go? I hear 72 up to as hot as 84 but that range seems insane to me!!?
They can go down to 68 if it's gradual ...probably colder even. But to spawn you want them at about 82 then drop that water tds to under 200 and ph to 6..0 or lower, with the temperature about 76
Which simulates that monsoon season of localized flooding of their streams and rice paddy/wetlands...so often i also switch from half filled warm water tanks to fully filled and 8 degree cooler -clean water thats had almond leaves stewing in a bucket for 24 to 72 hours to get the acidity and tannins
I love mine. They are all black and tan. I assumed the pale ones were unhealthy! I wonder if I have 4 males as they haven't bred in 3 years...
Could be. There's a lot of color variants out there also
@@Fishtory I did have a couple of nice black ones
wonder did u have babies from them, im trying but for now nothing :(
Only 3 survived In densely planted community tank. So she spawned and all, but I'm guessing the new fry got eatten
I’ve never seen Khuli’s predate shrimp, I’ve even seen them just ignore daphnia. I guess it depends on what they’re used to eating
Totally. Also if they are wild caught vs tank raised and prepared food fed
I finally got some of them. Great video, as always. Thanks, Alexander!
Right on! You're so welcome. Thanks for watching, and have fun with the loaches!
I have four black kuhli loach will they get the striped pattern ?
No they're actually a different species
@@Fishtory just bought some from aquatic arts with next day air so how long will it take for them to get here? I’m a California too !
Can u keep them in a planted tank. I have dwarf hairgrass in the front. Will they burrow and make the plants come off ?
Usually in grass or glosso/monte carlo they will bed down and kinda make paths on it in the back or along rocks...but they dont usually dig anything rooted up....other than if they create a little den or nest at night ...but theyll all pick a place to sleep together and stay there every night usually. So no biggie
@@Fishtory thought you said they’re nocturnal
Getting 10 of them in 2 days, so excited... Thanks for all the advice man, will definitely subscribe
Oh you'll have fun! Enjoy them :)
I’ve had mine for over a year and they’ve gone from looking like little pieces of string to beefy 5 inch monsters. They are totally placid but very goofy like a lot of loaches are and often crash into other fish while doing their nightly ‘glass surfing’ workout! I use a cheap WiFi camera on night vision to watch their antics while I work night shifts, I love them! I have several videos of them if you wanted to check out what you have in store, from juveniles to grown. They’re definitely one of my favourite fish👍🏼
Thanks for showing.....nice vid alex
Thanks Didi! Thanks for stopping by and dropping a line 😀
I am resarting my 10 gallon with new fluvsl sratum after a planaria out break would they do well in the fluval stratum
They should. Loaches love eating planaria as long as you don't offer other fancy fish food instead
Love your natural history/science lessons,I just like to know stuff. Keep on teaching.
Yup, they do love shrimp , my ghost shrimp started to dissappear until I caught them in the act.
I think I have 2 kuhlis, (ive only see one at a time) but i don't think eat my shrimp because my shrimp are breeding A LOT so if they do eat them it's not a big deal.
I love this fish 😊 They are adoreble and they love lots of plants. Mine love hanging around in my Limnophila plants, eating everything they can find. They are very friendy towards other fish, but One of mine is simply an ashole. It was eating at my Bettas fins when he was resting at the bottom. And if a fish was sick and very still, it will try to eat at their fins. My Betta is in a different aquarium now of course. And my other khuli loaches are kind.
Khul.
great video
😃👍
One of my favorite loaches.
I have 2 but idk if they are males or females
That's usually the case. It's a bit rate to catch a glimpse of the females if they have eggs ready to lay (which is the only sure-fire way to confirm their sex.)
Did the eggs hatched?
They must have, although I never found them in their tank. But there were about 4 or 5 babies If I recall...parents ate most of the babies because I didn't get them out of the breeding tank (5gallon planted) fast enough.
Any chance of an update with the Kuhlli's? Did they spawn?
They did but only 3 of the babies survived to adults
@@Fishtory that's still 3 that you wouldn't have had otherwise :)
how hard was it to catch the loaches ?
Your videos are really helping me choose the route I want to take with my 20H. Thanks!
Glad to hear it! And let me know what you choose!
I would recommend you adding amazon frogbit into your aquarium , this is because kuhli loaches love to hide in the roots and use them like hammocks , even though amazon frogbit is from the Amazon river in Brazil and kuhli loaches come from Indonesia i believe that in the wild they just must have had floating plants in their environment , i have seen my kuhli loaches everyday do this.
I think the reason why they are muscular is for this very reason that they cling onto floating plants for safety so i hope this helps you.
I'm not sure if this is just my discovery or not.
The tank they're in now is full of floating plants and also water lettuce roots
@@Fishtory Also do you know maybe what types of floating plants are in Indonesia? they feel right at home with the frogbit but i'm not sure what type of plant they are used to . I tried looking everywhere for an answer but i could not find it anywhere.
@@blooky102 well they live in streams with sand and gravel along creek beds in some cases...so just grasses or plants like valesenaria. However they have expanded widely, over the last 4,000 years of irrigation and rice fields. So they like rice plants and mulmy mucky shallow ponds as well. So water lettuce and even red or green mangrove tree and roots are popular
I have a khuli only tank and they had so many babies. If I flip over a rock there will be 4 or 5 babies that are there.
Whoa! That's amazing! Good for you you. Raising them happy!
My sister thinks they're creepy. I think they're derpy and adorable!
I’ve got a similarly densely planted tank but I’ve got 6 kuhli loaches in mine. Perhaps because I have more I see mine all the time during the day, wiggling between plants. So I recommend buying more.
Can different loaches breed? Different colors and sizes?
Yes some species can interbreed also. Dojo loaches can even get pregnant by males from 4 or 5 wild species! There's some interesting info out there on them
How do you catch them while they in the tank?
Pick up the rock where i know my 6 loaches all hide in a noodle ball together...after putting 2 nets in the corner to make a box
Catching a loach of any kind is hard. When I catch my Loaches, Im prepared to basically uproot the tank
These fish are so much fun to keep, squirmy little worms. LOL. Mine came from Aquatic Arts too.
Nice video! It has been a long time since I have been active. Sorry for not being able to watch any of your livestream. Too stretch over teaching online students. Good luck my friend!
Awww thanks, Cynthia! It's great to see/hear from you! I hope you are healthy and doing well. Best wishes, and thanks again for stopping by the channel! Cheers.
Will these guys be okay with hillstream loaches?
100%
I know we are talking about loaches but Can u pls tell me what’s the name of the black and white striped fish.. he was lovely.
Panda loach! :) my favorite
Great video!!
Glad you enjoyed it
My kuhlis sometimes go crazy and swim up and down and right to left. Water parameters are ok temperature is 26°. I'm not worried but I'd like to know what they are up to. I've read somewhere that fish do that when atmospheric pressure changes but I'm not quite sure if that's true. P.S. My wife's also thinks they are creepy lol
Probably spawning behavior actually. Sometimes they just do it a few times, but if its for more than a minute its probably a female with eggs and they release pherimones.
And yes... pressure changes do cause this ...low pressure before a rain will often spark this in corydoras and loaches
@@Fishtory Thanks for the info. They are like this all day long.
So they don’t eat their own eggs/ young?
Heinrich Kuhl probably called them Dornaugen(thorn eyes).
Lots of reports about Kuhlis and Neocaridina not working together, then also lots of reports of people with both having a shrimp outbreak. Myself included just have lots of cover.
Seems mixed . Ive seen my kuhlis eat a few newly born baby shrimp, but never bother grown shrimp
Mine eat out of my hand. Love loaches! ♥️😊
Totally!
Very informative. Thanks! 😃
Glad to be of service. Thanks for checking it out and watching