Loaches and bottom dwellers
Botias, kuhli loaches, other bottom dwellers and current-loving hillstream loaches.
42 species. Use the filters to narrow it down to the ones that suit your aquarium.
Fish
Hard
Saddled Hillstream Loach
Homaloptera orthogoniata
20–25°C
10 cm long
min. 110 L
Fish
Medium
Zipper Loach
Paracanthocobitis botia
21–26°C
12 cm long
min. 100 L
Fish
Easy
Guntea Loach
Lepidocephalichthys guntea
20–25°C
12 cm long
min. 80 L
Fish
Medium
Silver Loach
Yasuhikotakia lecontei
24–28°C
15 cm long
min. 240 L
Fish
Medium
Sun Loach
Yasuhikotakia eos
24–28°C
11 cm long
min. 150 L
Fish
Medium
Emperor Botia
Botia udomritthiruji
24–28°C
15 cm long
min. 240 L
Fish
Medium
Pangio cuneovirgata
Pangio cuneovirgata
22–26°C
4 cm long
min. 40 L
Fish
Medium
Schistura balteata
Schistura balteata
22–26°C
8 cm long
min. 90 L
Fish
Medium
Selangor Loach
Nemacheilus selangoricus
21–25°C
6 cm long
min. 60 L
Fish
Easy
Shelford's Kuhli
Pangio shelfordii
22–26°C
8 cm long
min. 60 L
Fish
Medium
Sinibotia superciliaris
Sinibotia superciliaris
20–25°C
11 cm long
min. 150 L
Fish
Medium
Ambastaia nigrolineata
Ambastaia nigrolineata
20–25°C
8 cm long
min. 120 L
Fish
Medium
Stone Loach
Barbatula barbatula
10–20°C
12 cm long
min. 100 L
Fish
Medium
Spined Loach
Cobitis taenia
10–20°C
10 cm long
min. 80 L
Fish
Hard
Vietnamese Giraffe Loach
Annamia normani
21–25°C
10 cm long
min. 120 L
Fish
Medium
Green Tiger Loach
Syncrossus hymenophysa
25–29°C
20 cm long
min. 300 L
Fish
Easy
Eel Loach
Pangio anguillaris
23–28°C
12 cm long
min. 60 L
Fish
Medium
Zodiac Loach
Mesonoemacheilus triangularis
19–25°C
6 cm long
min. 70 L