Rachel O'Leary - One of the most dependable sources of reliable and solid information about aquatics that I have ever come across. This in getting on for half a century of working with water in order to create life support systems to keep aquatic organisms well and happy. She speaks fluently in terms of Latin names, and anatomy. And I get the feeling that what she doesn't know about aquatics isn't really worth bothering with. So when she says "heebie jeebies" I think we should class that as a new scientific term, and use it all the while for "wigglies" :o) What a seriously wonderful way to start the new year! This cheered me up no end :o)
Years later, this statement still holds up. I'll think I'm about to search for some obscure fish, surely no one has made a quality video. Lo and behold, Rachel has done a video.
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I have 6 of the orange/black striped kuhli loach (intending on getting more when I manage to get my 410litre up and running) and I absolutely adore them! They are such fun wee fish. I had never heard of this silver version until this video, so thank you for uploading this video about them! My kuhlis love playing in air bubbles and "dancing" together up and down the glass, they are crazy to watch. I definitely find them cute rather than creepy!
Omfg eughhhghghghghghghgh that eel thing whenever you lifted the drift wood absolutely turned me. I completely agree with why you thought they were creepy now. I actually felt sick looking at it hahahaha. Great vid,, love how you briefly summarise the main points in ur vids without talking for too long like some people tend to do. I've been scrolling through ur channel watching all ur vids haha. xx
I have one golden dojo loach in my nano vase tank and he's in hyper drive all the time, he does a great job of picking up all the leftovers on the bottom and he's just fun he adds movement in the tank , you said there were red and black loaches to and now silver looks like the hunt is on ,I like em .👍🏼
My Kuhli loaches are so cocky. My tank is well planted and has hiding spots, yet I have this one loach that will just sit on leaves and just chill. He doesn’t even care when my betta swims by.
My 12 year old daughter wants some Kuhli loaches SO badly for her tank... she always likes those "oddball" fish lol. Wish they had them available where we live :( Awesome video, will show her it in the morning
I got an anguillaris by accident when getting regular dual colour kuhlis one day. Ive never even seen one in a pet shop but this shop must have got one in a batch of kuhlis. Mine got fin rot one day and just never recovered :( I believe they are very temperature sensitive, in terms of temp changes and fluctuations.
Actually no but it depends with the country's temperature mine is tropical so water change won't affect them too much I usually do 75% water change to remove dirt
not yet. I had eveyr intention of pulling a few species of kuhli from the fish room for this video- then new years day happened :) Gives me an excuse to feature them in the future.
Do black loaches start off thin like that? Cuz when I bought my they said its a black loach but it's really think like that but it doesn't look like the silver color.
Anyone know where to get them in southern Cali? We only seem to have Kuhli Loaches (Leopard Loaches) around my local fish stores. I’m trying to have Black Kuhlis, Leopard Kuhlis and Silver Loaches all together!
Rachel O'leary just a quick question: how big should the aquarium at least be for these guys? I'm pretty sure that my 60l Nanocube (40 cm length) is not enough, but since you prefer to keep nano species i thought it's worth a try ;)
hi. thanx for this spotlight. and the best for me personally. I never heard of hebee jebies. and I googled it instantly. did u know it's a phrase of a cartoon in the 1920s? :)
New to your channel but curious as to whether you've kept or keep any larger species of predatory fish? Have you ever worked with any of the channa sp? I had to sell off all my fish and tanks for a move a couple years ago and haven't had the opportunity to get more tanks and fish. However, if and when I get the chance to purchase fish again I'd really like to try my hand with larger species. Especially some of the channa sp. as they're amazing and quite intelligent fish.
I love the wormy loaches. They're so cute and different, BUT I did gross myself out a little by eating some sour gummy worms while watching this. Just.. no.. rofl
hi Rachel... where can you buy them I never seen them for sale,I love to get some in the near future I had the regular one and love them.how often you keep them in stock? thanks live the channel.
You said that they have never been bred in captivity. Does that mean that these are wild caught? Is there a reason why they have never been bred in captivity? And if so, is that true for all Kuhli loaches?
I was actually going to purchase one of these from a local petstore once my new 36 gallon bow front tank is done cycling. As usual the chain petstore gave the wrong information. granted I was going to research the fish before i bought one when the time came. For now the tank has been set up for around a week and I added the first few fish from my old tank. (I used water/decor from my old tank to boost the cycling) I have a male and female betta (both get along and have been housed for a year together surprisingly peacefully) four guppies and a clown plecos. Any suggestions for fish to help populate this planted tank without overcrowding it?
Do you know what’s the name of the sand you’re using for substrate? I’m trying to find a smooth black sand, I have tahitian moon sand caribsea and don’t think it’s good for my kuhlis
Cute actually a huge fan of khuli loaches, since the late 80's. However Rachel, I had asked you to look into finding a regular source who carries #ColisaFasciata, and between travel and holidays I never really received your feedback. That being said, did you ever find out anything, or has it completely slipped your mind??? Cheers, Michael😊
Kinda off topic but two things: My shrimp keep dying but water parameters ok, temp at: 27 degrees/80.6 Fahrenheit. They go blue and always die in night. This is in a fluval Spec 5G ( Same as yours ), i have moss, driftwood e.t.c. Secondly i have 5 neon tetras and 2 black tetras and they don't seem to swim around and they are always around 1cm off the substrate! Please help!
The fact that they die at night, made me think it may be to do with lack of oxygen (plants need light to convert co2 into oxygen), are you running an airstone in there.
Harvio lower the temp, when at night plants dont produce oxygen and warmer water retains oxygen less effectifvely, do a big waterchange and make sure ur driftwood and substrate dont leech anything bad into the water
Harvio also what type of substrate are u using? Tetras come from waters with low ph and having them in high ph water might stress them out a bunch and could lead to death possibly. Also, co2 should lower ph not raise it which is strange
I have a big group of these in my tank. Absolutely adore them, they love to huddle around my big black and gold kuhli.
I think they are soooo cute!
No you.
Rachel O'Leary - One of the most dependable sources of reliable and solid information about aquatics that I have ever come across. This in getting on for half a century of working with water in order to create life support systems to keep aquatic organisms well and happy. She speaks fluently in terms of Latin names, and anatomy. And I get the feeling that what she doesn't know about aquatics isn't really worth bothering with.
So when she says "heebie jeebies" I think we should class that as a new scientific term, and use it all the while for "wigglies" :o)
What a seriously wonderful way to start the new year! This cheered me up no end :o)
+ilookafter thewater hahaha. Glad to hear it!
Years later, this statement still holds up. I'll think I'm about to search for some obscure fish, surely no one has made a quality video. Lo and behold, Rachel has done a video.
Creepy or cute? You tell me!
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Not kidding- I was eating lo mein while watching this😵
+Neon Tetra Aquarist hahahahahahaha
I have 6 of the orange/black striped kuhli loach (intending on getting more when I manage to get my 410litre up and running) and I absolutely adore them! They are such fun wee fish. I had never heard of this silver version until this video, so thank you for uploading this video about them! My kuhlis love playing in air bubbles and "dancing" together up and down the glass, they are crazy to watch. I definitely find them cute rather than creepy!
Omfg eughhhghghghghghghgh that eel thing whenever you lifted the drift wood absolutely turned me. I completely agree with why you thought they were creepy now. I actually felt sick looking at it hahahaha.
Great vid,, love how you briefly summarise the main points in ur vids without talking for too long like some people tend to do. I've been scrolling through ur channel watching all ur vids haha. xx
+Whatever thanks! Totally creept, right??
I LOVE kuhli loaches!
I have black and zebra kuhlis, and they are very entertaining. They used to kinda scare me, but once i bought them, i fell in love with them.
Lovely. The Kuhlis are among my faves, one of the few that's not truly tiny in size. I've got some now I can't ID.
I have one golden dojo loach in my nano vase tank and he's in hyper drive all the time, he does a great job of picking up all the leftovers on the bottom and he's just fun he adds movement in the tank , you said there were red and black loaches to and now silver looks like the hunt is on ,I like em .👍🏼
I just found out about your channel today, I must say I am very impressed with your channel. Actually I love it!
+Aussie Aquatics thanks
My Kuhli loaches are so cocky. My tank is well planted and has hiding spots, yet I have this one loach that will just sit on leaves and just chill. He doesn’t even care when my betta swims by.
My 12 year old daughter wants some Kuhli loaches SO badly for her tank... she always likes those "oddball" fish lol. Wish they had them available where we live :( Awesome video, will show her it in the morning
Awesome critters! Thanks for the introduction
I like the knowledge on the different fish. good job
love your vids Rachel, thank you for your passion and dedication. really learning a lot from you.
+m0rce1 glad to hear it
I would love some of these to go with my red and black ones... and my dojo’s.
I just nabbbed two of them, they come to petsmart with black khuli sometimes and i love the shiny color and long bodies there fun fun fun
WOW I love their movement, but I totally get why it creeps you out XD
excellent video great job educating mine on this species I really 💘 these
I have never seen the silver before. Cool!
I love keeping weather loach pink and brown good for keeping uneaten food on the sub
We have two black Khuli's! Need more!
Me too
I have one and he’s just like an elver baby eel ,
I got an anguillaris by accident when getting regular dual colour kuhlis one day. Ive never even seen one in a pet shop but this shop must have got one in a batch of kuhlis.
Mine got fin rot one day and just never recovered :(
I believe they are very temperature sensitive, in terms of temp changes and fluctuations.
Actually no but it depends with the country's temperature mine is tropical so water change won't affect them too much I usually do 75% water change to remove dirt
My kuhli loach scares my dwarf gourami
my black kuhli loach wiggles square laps around the right side of the tank and stares at my dalmation molly
Nice cherries 🍒 😊
I like mine even though I never saw them in my old setup, have an overhanging rock that they chill at now when the are not digging.
Looks like a tank full of live spaghetti!
Reminds me of the floor in the Well of The Souls temple in Raiders of the Lost Ark. :)
100%
I love these fish! I wish they eat snails too I'm getting too many! Lol
Cool fish, did you ever do a profile on the stripped kuhli?
not yet. I had eveyr intention of pulling a few species of kuhli from the fish room for this video- then new years day happened :) Gives me an excuse to feature them in the future.
Very kool Rachel! They look like a group of snakes when all together waiting to hunt
I only watched this video to hear your reaction as I now know they creep you out, LOL
Can they be housed with snails (more specifically, Japanese trapdoor snails) and shrimp (ghost shrimp and vampire shrimp). Also, how many per gallon?
I love loaches ... so cute :)
Could you do one on Pearl Gouramis? If you ever have them?
OMG, I want them all! @_@ So awesome!
I just bought 24 of the banded kuhlis for my 55g. I’m hoping it all goes well, I just ripped out like 40 guppies to make sure the bioload is fine.
oh man that clip where they were all wriggling even gave me the creeps and i really like snakes
+Karim Swift right!!
Would love to have a few of those
They're not just cool
They're.... Kuhli 😎😎😎😎
😂
How deep do they burrow? Viable for Walstad?
Do black loaches start off thin like that? Cuz when I bought my they said its a black loach but it's really think like that but it doesn't look like the silver color.
I love these fish awesome I had one that eat of my finger unfortunately it jumped out of my aquarium between the hang back and lid💗🐟👍
Kuhli loaches are my favorite fish in the world
Anyone know where to get them in southern Cali? We only seem to have Kuhli Loaches (Leopard Loaches) around my local fish stores. I’m trying to have Black Kuhlis, Leopard Kuhlis and Silver Loaches all together!
Hi Rachael how are you? I just wanted to know what the name of the red snd black loach you mentioned in this video. Thanks.
Rachel O'leary just a quick question: how big should the aquarium at least be for these guys? I'm pretty sure that my 60l Nanocube (40 cm length) is not enough, but since you prefer to keep nano species i thought it's worth a try ;)
hi. thanx for this spotlight. and the best for me personally.
I never heard of hebee jebies. and I googled it instantly.
did u know it's a phrase of a cartoon in the 1920s? :)
+hatnixzuverlirn haha yea
it was heebie jeebies :)
cool video, Happy New Year!
+Mark Lonoking Guitars and Fish to you as well!
Thank you!
These guys look thinner and longer then your standards striped kuhli loach
HHAHAHA! I like how u say they give u the heeby jeebys cuz me too loll
I believe I just purchased some of these from my lfs and they were labled as golden kuhli loaches 🙈
thanks for the info- i bought 3 this week and now i feel like they didn't get any food!
Can you do a video about yoyo loaches ❤ I had one and he was so active
Are the ones in your tank mostly adults, or will they grow more?
New to your channel but curious as to whether you've kept or keep any larger species of predatory fish? Have you ever worked with any of the channa sp? I had to sell off all my fish and tanks for a move a couple years ago and haven't had the opportunity to get more tanks and fish. However, if and when I get the chance to purchase fish again I'd really like to try my hand with larger species. Especially some of the channa sp. as they're amazing and quite intelligent fish.
+xxohmycaptainxx I keep polypterus and gar, but no channa. Pretty sure they are illegal for me to keep
Oh awesome! And oh shoot, I guess you're US based then? For some reason I assumed you were from the UK lol!
+xxohmycaptainxx yep, us
L0L ... Why do I get the impression Rachel abhors snakes.
will they disrupt a dieted tank too much? layers are from bottom to top dirt,red clay pebbles,sand,Carib Sea Eco Complete. thanks!
+KarmaKee Farm probably
got my new tank wanting to make shrimps gettin baby's.
u think I could get platys and some of these in to do so?
I love the wormy loaches. They're so cute and different, BUT I did gross myself out a little by eating some sour gummy worms while watching this. Just.. no.. rofl
Thanks for another great vid, how would eco complete work for these guys or would you need to cap it off with come black sand for example?
Awesome thanks :) edit: accidentally flagged comment, and youtube won't let me undo it, sorry!
you rapscallion
Would seachem fluorite substrate be ok for kuhli loaches?
where did you get silver khulis? do you still have them?
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hi Rachel... where can you buy them I never seen them for sale,I love to get some in the near future I had the regular one and love them.how often you keep them in stock? thanks live the channel.
+Fernando Gallegos I will be sporadic, or this may be the only time I stock them. Depends on if they breed or not
how dose someone buy these?
You said that they have never been bred in captivity. Does that mean that these are wild caught?
Is there a reason why they have never been bred in captivity? And if so, is that true for all Kuhli loaches?
Many kuhli/cobitis types have been bred in captivity. These just haven't- they are not very common.
Can I put it with my betta feeder goldfish and snails
How long are these? I would love to get about 10 or 12.
I have found two sliver eel baby in river what to do
Nice title XD
+Kicx14 I thought it was better than "these fish freak me out"
I read your comment so wrong... xD
I was actually going to purchase one of these from a local petstore once my new 36 gallon bow front tank is done cycling. As usual the chain petstore gave the wrong information. granted I was going to research the fish before i bought one when the time came. For now the tank has been set up for around a week and I added the first few fish from my old tank. (I used water/decor from my old tank to boost the cycling) I have a male and female betta (both get along and have been housed for a year together surprisingly peacefully) four guppies and a clown plecos. Any suggestions for fish to help populate this planted tank without overcrowding it?
how much are they?
kathy wu it's been a while so I dont fully remember. I'm sure a simple google search will give you price ranges
what species of fish, besides these loaches, require a substrate as a must have?
+movingWater some types of cories, some gobies and darters, etc
Do you know what’s the name of the sand you’re using for substrate? I’m trying to find a smooth black sand, I have tahitian moon sand caribsea and don’t think it’s good for my kuhlis
This was colorquartz
Never seen these! Are yours very young or are they a thinner species than the common Kuhli; cus my Kuhlis (3 yrs old) are fat ol' things!
+Catfish Cave they are young, and a thinner/longer species
Cute actually a huge fan of khuli loaches, since the late 80's.
However Rachel, I had asked you to look into finding a regular source who carries #ColisaFasciata, and between travel and holidays I never really received your feedback.
That being said, did you ever find out anything, or has it completely slipped your mind???
Cheers,
Michael😊
+michael alexis slipped my mind!
Rachel O'leary any chance of getting an answer in a weeks time?
+michael alexis I don't know anyone working with them consistently
I love kuhli loaches
Can you keep multiple species of kuhlis in the same aquarium together?
+Alexander Taylor yes
Cool, thanks :)
I want to get Kuhli Loaches so much! But whenever I go to buy fish they're always gone🙁
And my mom won't let me get them. They freak her out too much
Kinda off topic but two things:
My shrimp keep dying but water parameters ok, temp at: 27 degrees/80.6 Fahrenheit. They go blue and always die in night. This is in a fluval Spec 5G ( Same as yours ), i have moss, driftwood e.t.c.
Secondly i have 5 neon tetras and 2 black tetras and they don't seem to swim around and they are always around 1cm off the substrate! Please help!
Are you running co2 in the tank?
no, i do in other tanks but makes Ph go sky high
The fact that they die at night, made me think it may be to do with lack of oxygen (plants need light to convert co2 into oxygen), are you running an airstone in there.
Harvio lower the temp, when at night plants dont produce oxygen and warmer water retains oxygen less effectifvely, do a big waterchange and make sure ur driftwood and substrate dont leech anything bad into the water
Harvio also what type of substrate are u using? Tetras come from waters with low ph and having them in high ph water might stress them out a bunch and could lead to death possibly. Also, co2 should lower ph not raise it which is strange
My loach sadly died he was 2 years old 😭
heebee jeebees ... hahaha ... ;)
That made me LOL too!
+Zenin Skomorowski I suppose I could have edited it out, but it's an honest response lol
So i guess no tire track eel for you. ..
I could handle 6...cuz I have four.
Fifteen? Dont know about that.
Reminds me of one of those Indiana Jones films 😀
Right??
Yeah with all of the snakes on the floor in one of the pyramids 😀 come on Rachel 😀
+OZZYTHEOSCAR eeeeeeeeee
want some.....maybe like 15- 20?
+Eric Maxson perfect amount
can you keep these with striped or black kuhli loaches??
+graffic13 yes
awesome ... I'm probably gonna be placing an order soon gotta get paid again
Hi my Black Kuhli Loach won't eat can you help??
+MisterE007 what are you offering it.
3:50 I FEEL VIOLATED
as a man and outdoorsmen those creep me out
+Michael Tette glad I am not alone
I think these are really creepy hahaha I wouldn't like to put my hand in with them hahaha
It doesnt look like any kuhli loaches ive seen.
these fish look like a snake because of the local long body
guess you don't like my erpetoichthys then. ;)
they look just nasty. in china we use its larger cousin as food.
Can't ever see me keeping these, triggers an instinctive dislike of snake-like animals. Yuk!