Loaches
Spined Loach
Cobitis taenia
Photo: Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature4–22 °C
- pH6.5–8
- Minimum tank80 l
- Adult size10 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- Lives in a groupof 3 or more
- TemperamentPeaceful
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Cobitidae
- Origin
- Europe
- Size
- 10 cm
- Temperature
- 4 – 22°C
- pH
- 6.5 – 8.0
- GH
- 5 – 20 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Water type
- freshwater, temperate
- Swimming level
- lower
- Behavior
- Pacific
- Minimum number of individuals
- 3
- Minimum aquarium size
- 80 L
- Diet
- Carnivorous (small bottom-dwelling invertebrates)
- Reproduction
- oviparous
Notes: A European mud minnow that spends the day buried in the sand. Similar protected species live on the Iberian Peninsula: do not capture them from the wild.
