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Find Fish Type
Name of Fish:
| Chinese Zebra Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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The Chinese Zebra loach is an absolutely amazing fish! It comes in a light gold to brownish color and beautiful patterning all over. These fish are very good community fish and will get along with most fish. It comes from the Balitoridae family. They eat live and tablet foods. You can find them swimming around in fast moving streams. |
| Half Banded Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This fish is another patterned fish with a lighter white to golden color along with some dark vertical bands. They are very active yet peaceful fish and tend to get along with most other fish. They belong to the Balitoridae family. They prefer to eat brine shrimp or any other live food you can find. They like to swim around in cool yet fast moving streams. |
| Torrent Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This particular type of fish generally resembles some sort of small lizard or a gecko. They are brownish red in their color, with dark stripes through their eyes and dorsal fin. They are a likely to do well in a less aggressive environment. They come from the Balitoridae family. They like to eat live foods as well as tablet food. Again, you can find these little beauties in fast moving streams. |
| Mongoose Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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The Mongoose loach is silver to light golden in background color with dark spots as their patterning. This is a very peaceful and non-aggressive type of fish. They most commonly come from the Balitoridae family. Their diet includes but is not limited to various types of live foods, and frozen foods as well. They live in fast moving and cool watered streams. |
| Ornate Tiger Sand Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This adorable fish has a light white to golden background color along with dark vertical bars all over their body. These fish generally stick to hanging around their own species but are considered peaceful. They belong to the Balitoridae family. They do eat an omnivorous diet and do enjoy an occasional algae wafer once and again. These fish again can be found in cool fast moving streams. |
| Rainbow Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This fish is greenish gray in coloring that may have a brown to reddish brown tint to it. These fish tend to do a little better when swimming around with their own kind, but they can be a community fish as well. This fish belongs to the Balitoridae family. They like to eat live food such as brine shrimp or frozen food as well. They swim around in cool watered fast moving streams. |
| Salween Hillstream Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This is a beautiful fish! It has bold dark zebra patterning across its light golden silverfish body. This is a peaceful and excellent community fish. The Salween Hillstream Loach belongs to the Balitoridae family. They like to each such foods as brine shrimp and mosquito larvae. You can find these fish in cool watered fast moving streams. They grow to be about 3 inches long. |
| Zipper Loach (Freshwater Fish) | |
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These fish come in a grayish green sort of color with dark blotches on its body as well as stripes. This is a very shy and nocturnal type of fish that loves to hide. It belongs in the Balitoridae family. They tend to stick to eating live foods as well as frozen foods and some algae. They prefer to hide at the bottoms of cool watered steams where they can burrow. |
| Archer Fish (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This fish tends to stick to being yellowish in color or a silvery white color as well. These types of fish can tend to be aggressive with other fish that are equal in size. They come from the Toxotidae family of fish. This type of fish is a carnivore and prefers to eat small live insects. They can be found mainly in shallow parts of swamps. |
| Blackbanded Sunfish (Freshwater Fish) | |
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This fish tends to look very bland in color which keeps them out of the usual aquarium. When spawning these fish tend to get increasingly aggressive. They belong to the Toxotidae family. These fish love to eat bloodworms live or frozen. This fish can be found in lakes in Eastern USA. When full size they reach a length of 4 inches. |