Rasboras, danios, and barbs
Kuhli loach
Pangio kuhlii
Photo: Iidkk · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–30 °C
- pH5.5–7
- Minimum tank60 l
- Adult size10 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- Lives in a groupof 5 or more
- TemperamentPeaceful
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Cobitidae
- Origin
- Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula
- Size
- 10 cm
- Temperature
- 24 – 30°C
- pH
- 5.5 – 7.0
- GH
- 1 – 10 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Water type
- tropical freshwater
- Swimming level
- lower
- Behavior
- Pacific (nocturnal)
- Minimum number of individuals
- 5
- Minimum aquarium size
- 60 L
- Diet
- Omnivore (worms, bottom-feeding pellets)
- Reproduction
- oviparous; rare in aquariums
Notes: It looks like a small eel with orange and black stripes. It needs fine sand to burrow into and hiding places. It squeezes through any crack—be sure to protect the filter inlet.
