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Dojo Loach
Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
Family: Cobitidae
📍 China, Japan & Korea
The dojo loach (weather loach) is a large, eel-like fish famous for becoming more active before changes in barometric pressure. It is extremely peaceful, cold-tolerant, and a hardy beginner fish. It burrows into substrate and requires a tight-fitting lid.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Omnivore – sinking pellets, bloodworms, earthworms, daphnia, vegetables
- lifespan
- 10+ years
- max size
- 28 cm (11 in)
- tank size
- 40 gallons minimum
- temperament
- Very peaceful
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.5–8.0
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 5–15 dGH
- temperature
- 59–77°F (15–25°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
50°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Jul high)