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Kuhli Loach
Pangio kuhlii
Family: Cobitidae
📍 Malay Peninsula, Java & Sumatra
The Kuhli Loach is an eel-like, nocturnal loach from Southeast Asia with alternating yellow-orange and dark-brown banding. It wriggles through substrate and around plant roots searching for food, making it a fascinating and useful bottom-level scavenger. Kuhli Loaches are social and do best in groups of five or more; lone individuals are shy and rarely seen. Fine sand is essential to protect their sensitive underbellies.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Omnivore – sinking pellets, frozen bloodworms, micro worms, detritus
- lifespan
- 10–14 years
- max size
- 12 cm (4.7 in)
- tank size
- 20 gallons minimum
- school size
- 5+
- temperament
- Peaceful; excellent community fish
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Water it likes
- ph
- 5.5–7.0
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <15 ppm
- hardness
- 1–10 dGH
- temperature
- 75–86°F (24–30°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
75°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Apr high)