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Name of Fish:
| Botia Robusta (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This exquisite fish comes in a yellowish golden background color with vertical dark bands. This type of fish is a good community fish. The Botia Robusta comes from the Cobitidae family. They will eat live food as well as snails. They come from larger bodies of water. They can grow and reach up to 5-7 inches in length when in an aquarium. |
| Polka dot Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This fish is a very interesting looking fish they are yellow spotted with black and yellow stripes. This fish is a very tame community fish. The polka dot loach belongs to the Cobitidae family. Their diet consists of mainly live food as well as algae. They swim around in fast moving rivers and streams. They grow up to 5 inches. |
| Clown Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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The clown loach is bright orange in color or even reddish in color with 3 black vertical bars. This type of fish tends to be a very shy fish. They eat live foods as well as frozen and occasionally they feed on brine shrimp. They can be found swimming in running or still standing waters. They grow up to 12 inches. |
| Dojo Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This fish is also known as the Weather loach. It can come in either a goldish color with greenish dark spots. The Dojo belongs to the Cobitidae family. This fish is not a picky eater; it consumes all sorts of live food or tablet food. They live in rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps and prefer muddy bottoms. They reach 6 inches. |
| Dwarf Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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The body color of the Dwarf loach is whitish on the bottom half with golden blotches on the top half, separated by a horizontal black stripe. They are an active and peaceful fish. This Dwarf loach belongs to the Cobitidae family. They prefer slow-moving or still muddy waters. Their diet usually consists of live food, pelleted foods, and even algae. |
| Horseface Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This fish has an interesting long snout and is light brown in color with spots and stripes. They are generally peaceful fish but will defend their own territory. This fish belongs to the Cobitidae family. They like to eat shrimp brine as well as mosquito larvae, they like live food. They can be located swimming around in rapid and slow moving rivers. |
| Java Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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The Java Loach is also known by the name of Black Kuhli loach. Its body and its head are reddish brown in color with a black bar at the very base of its tail. They are peaceful around other fish and considered to be scavengers. They come from the Cobitidae family. They can generally eat small live or frozen food as well as meat based foods. They swim in shallow areas of rivers. |
| Kuhli Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This sort of loach sort of resembles a king snake. They have a pinkish yellow background color with an average of 12 vertical bars. They are very peaceful and shy. This fish belongs to the Cobitidae family. They are scavenger fish as well and like to eat high quality prepared food. They dwell in the sandy areas of rivers and mountain streams. |
| Lepti Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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The technical name for this fish is Leptobotia Guilinesis. It’s a very pretty fish golden brown in color. This type of fish tends to get very territorial. It comes from the Cobitidae family. They generally eat live foods but will eat frozen foods as well. They live in the sandy bottoms of streams. They can grow up to 3-4 inches in length. |
| Myer’s Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This has been known to be a very slimy fish. It has a salmon red type of color with dark brown bands. This type of fish tends to stand alone instead of swimming in packs. They come from the Cobitidae fish family. Although this fish is a scavenger fish they also enjoy live meat based foods. They reside in sandy parts of rivers. |