Help id this sucker please

[ROB281]

I've never seen one like it before, and hoping someone can inform me, this is one of the fish that came with the tank I picked up4341899310_e2f7022778.jpg

[wesleydnunder]

Looks like a hillstream loach.

Mark

[ROB281]

thanks, I know it's not the greatest pic, this guy is skiddish

anytime I move in for a good pic he jets for the shadows

[semper]

+1 on hill stream loach

[semper]

here are some pics

[Fire_chair]

Yeah, what they said.

[Sea-agg09]

I love mine. They like bare rocks and flat surfaces. They would love it if you added some large, smooth rocks in the bottom of the tank for them to crawl around on. They originate from very fast rocky stream in SE asia, vietnam if I can remember. These rivers don't have much in the form of vegetation, but the loaches will crawl along the shallow rocky banks and graze on algae all day.

[fshfrk]

I like those guys.

[Darbex]

I have thought about them just never gotten one

[newb]

really good lookin fish. I wonder how good they are at eating algea?

[wesleydnunder]

really good lookin fish. I wonder how good they are at eating algea?

I've kept them before. They do ok as algae eaters, but don't seem to make that much of a dent in it. Mine liked flake and brine shrimp as much as anything else. The research I did on them said they like aquatic invertebrates.

Mark

[Sea-agg09]

Mine does really well. Doesn't touch the crypts or watersprite either.