Kuhli Loaches - Best Beginner Oddball Fish?
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- Let's talk about the kuhli loach, a fun oddball fish that’s easy to care for and easy on the wallet.
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They're cute, one of my favorite fish.
@@cmpi82 I wholeheartedly agree, but my mother-in-law can't stand them. 😂
They are super adorable, same thing happened to us when my partner and I were upgrading our community fishes tank we couldn't find one of our last loaches, we looked all over the decor, plants, the substrate, and even the room to see if he jumped out, but to our surprise he was just hidden in the substrate really well for about two days! I yelled excitingly to my partner that he wasnt gone and was just hidden really well in the sand 😂 hes still happily swimming with his other schooling buddies seeming unfazed or not really hurt by being there for quite a while
I love my little wiggle fish. I gotta say that I got a group of 6 and they also like to come out during the day and wiggle around. They usually run away if I get close to the aquarium during the day but if not I see they squirming around to find food in the front of the tank.
So cute! I want some of them. I have black kuhuli loaches. But having a hard time finding striped ones. I love loaches! I cover my tank. Hey thank you for saying my name. You're are awesome A Gamer's Wife! 💖🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟😊
I want a 400 gallon with nothing but khuli loaches, that's how awesome they are to me
Me but with corys
Me but with gold dojo loaches
Id do this with corydoras and a tank full of loaches
@@reptilesfishandmore the larger loaches ( I have YoYos) seem to really like the corys company.
get the dojo loaches instead if your going big
They’ll be less shy if there’s more of them. I have 7 and they spend all their time zooming around and noodling in plain view.
@Le Baguette Yes, as long as there are places for them to hide and you have food that sinks to the bottom. These are just general tips though, so do more research if needed!
@Le Baguette That's plenty of room and hiding places. You can keep ~6 in a 20 gallon, so with that much space and all those plants they'll think they're in heaven :)
@@danielpontow5378 does 3 work?
@@article580 what’s your tank size? They will probably be a lot more comfortable with three, but if you can manage for they will be decently social
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I came to look for a care guide on kuhli loach and didn’t expect to see my old culinary teacher Dean. The internet is so wild
What, no way! He's an amazing fish breeder as a hobby. You can check out his other videos here: th-cam.com/video/en9IDbZCFlY/w-d-xo.html
Very cool. Zebra aqua-noodle-ferrets
So true! 😂
Dojo loaches are also freaking awesome.
@@RoGuExPaNcAkE I sooo want to keep them someday.
For someone like me, who loves Ferrets and Snakes (and kept/keeping them both), this is exactly why the Kuhli Loaches caught my eye. I am more into reptiles, but recently started with Aquariums too. It started when I bought a waterplant for a watergarden-display, and after 2 weeks I found some little snails in there. So what do sane people do? Toss them out... leave them be and see what happens...? Well I decided to buy a whole Nano-Tank for them lol. I will add some shrimp soon since they are just adorable. Apart from that I am not really too much into regular fish, but when I saw the Kuhli Loaches, my heart made like a little jump. Now I fear I have to start another tank with some of them lol. What did these 2mm big snails do to me XD
@@GirlTalksFish I have a gold dojo loach. Awesome fish and such personality!
I once put them in a tank for a client and then never saw them again lol. Many years later when I took the tank down, there they were. Great vid.
LOL! They're such sneaky ninjas.
Does that mean a dirty tank or just people that never see the tank at night?
@@G0Chiefs I am guessing that it was an Office lobby sort of tank. Only viewed 9-5, and mostly just in passing
Where they alive?
i know they can be sneeky but after having them in my tank it's like i never bought them at the begining 🤣😂😅
I have a fishtank in my room and put a few tetras and 3 kuhli loaches. It was a 5 gallon tank so when the tetras died and so did the loaches a few months later I thought I lost all of them. Not feeding cleaning doing anything to that tank just letting it run for 7 months. Yesterday I finally decided to throw the tank away and when I went to take out my decorations there was still one in there. I will cherish him with my life. He cannot die. I fed him all the food he could handle and now he’s happy. He is my king. I worship him. For he survived the survivor. By sheer will he survived.
1 year later and i hope you upgraded that tank, no wonder your fish died
@@Xenomorpheus429 I cleaned the tank regularly but it just wasn’t the right size for them. I ended up buying a much larger tank for my living room after I found them. They’ve been happily thriving in their new 100 gallon tank with many friends.
I have 2 kuhli loaches...one of them I have had for 24 years! His fins have deteriorated a bit, but he or she is as active as ever. Love the new name listed below by ArnoldQMudskipper "Zebra aqua-noodle-ferrets"...LOL
Wait 24 years!Are you serious? That’s could be a world record or something.
24?!!
24 years?!
wait what they can live that long ?
@@pixazelz yes
After searching all over online, I think your aquatics videos are by far the best quality on TH-cam. The way you explain things is super beginner friendly and just makes sense. The camera quality and transition graphics are awesome and show you put a lot of time into them. It’s also really cool how you reference others in the online aquatics community and promote them. Keep up the good work!
I 100% agree!
I had kuhlis years ago: they were amusing. They loved hanging out in the branches of my water wisteria plants, draped across the leaves.
I love seeing them hang out at top! It's so different from their usual behavior. :)
Ohhh. So that's normal? I just had mine yesterday from the store, and now they were hanging out on the roots of my floating plants. I thought they wanted to suicide by getting out of the water
@@denmark7775 Yep, they're amusing little critters.
I had a small grey loach named Stew and he lived for 9 years! He had the cutest red cheeks 😍 I am a night owl so I got to see him quite a bit!
I came back as a human
I would love to see a care guide for the ottocinclus catfish
Give them a piece of wood and they'll love you
John James don’t forget some plants and maybe shrimp
I have some and they are the cutest
They need at least 4 of them you need a like 10 gallons or more but I have mine in a 5 gallon tank for a couple of weeks with is fine they like zucchini and cucumbers they you can boil too you should have live plant they are just better I guess they can be with any community fish
@@keirasworld7668 how big do they grow because I have a 10 gallon but I think that’s too small
@@itsdynasty3712 They stay under 2 inches usually and 2 of them will keep a 10 gal very clean. Only the hard green algae you see sometimes on the glass grows still, but you can clean that easy with an old credit card or algae scraper. I am seeing a little hair algae in my new tank that the Otto's and snails aren't eating. They are nonstop eating machines and a lot of fun to watch.
Want to know what's so funny, I just obtained a tank off a friend who had left it in his garage for a few months... Having it myself for a few months just as a display tank (with no fish in it may I add) I noticed just tonight a little snake like thing wiggle it's head out from behind a rock, and sure enough a kuhli! The water is even straight from the tap!!!! These guys are crazy tough
Oh my goodness, that's crazy! These things are so amazing.
How's he doing now?
@@kirin1230 yeah fine, still held strong through another house move, I've purchased a friend for him now as well
@@lachyg3792 They quite often hide in under-gravel filters, so when you are breaking down a tank you need to break it down fully. One of my favourite fish since my first tank as a child.
One of my favorite freshwater fish by far! They're adorable, perfect for small planted tanks, and a perfect alternative when you don't have the means to keep a snake or eel. Plus, whenever I drop food in their tank, they smell it and start wiggling and sniffling around like crazy. I can't get enough of them!
I got kuhli loaches yesterday and I was so surprised to find that they're just as energetic as you described yours to be. They're so cute and entertaining!
Lol re the catfish and the Loch being so polite. IN LOVE with this tank!! I really appreciate how thorough you are at explaining everything.
Also i love your idea of a timid tank... i sort of have one also, in mine i also have kuhlis, cpds and erythromicrons (galaxy rasboras), then i found sundanios, blue axelrodi rasboras, sparkling gouramis, scarlet badis, panda loaches and multistriped dwarf loaches. It has quickly become my favorite tank to watch also!
That's awesome! I love all those fish; great stocking ideas for the future. 😍
4:05 "they occasionally like vegetables"
Show Otto fish devouring the zucchini.
LoL
Solid information poured out here, kudos to you! Just to share, my observation of loaches in the wild reveals their mysteriously skittish behavior of darting about in the tank which you've highlighted in this vid.
Loaches are active *micropredators* with a keen sense of smell & just about the only reason they move is actually to hunt! And they are not at all shy.
For example, here in Singapore these loaches are native to forest streams & are endangered. Here, amongst mulm & leaf litter on a substrate of gravel the loaches scrutinise every crevice found on the bottom aggregate. For microorganisms like ostracods & cladocerans.
And it appears to me these loaches don't need to eat a lot to get by. Once a Pangio spp. loach has something to munch it'll take a break by remaining still (usually under a leaf) for a while. So, overfeeding is not a good idea with these guys. Yeap! That's what I saw. Cheers.
I LOVE YOUR AXOLOTL EARRINGS!!!
They remind me of creepy, crawly, baby snakes 😮
But they are a sure fire way to get kids interested in an aquarium. As always you've given concise, easily understood information.
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Haha, you're right - my kids totally love them!
Snakes arent creepy or crawly but ok. Well actually I guess they are for some people not trying to judge anyone :D
Great video and timely. I have a trip to the LFS this morning for an order of a dozen salt & pepper corys. I’ve been wanting kuhlis in one of the tanks too. If I see them I’m getting them!
Thanks for another great video. I had a neglected 10gallon & thought there were only 2 Kuhli loaches left of the 12 I put in 18 months ago, when I started removing plants I was shocked to find not 2, but 8 Kuhli loaches thriving in there at 8.4ph. I moved them to my 20gallon so now I have 17 Kuhli loaches thriving in 7.0ph & they're super active, everywhere you look there are Kuhli loaches, big & small. Mine eat anything, including Hikari sinking wafers, but they definitely prefer Fluval Bug Bites, Sera O-nip tabs, but their favorite is frozen Bloodworms.
That's awesome! I can't wait to see if mine will breed one day.
Such a great video! I've had my kuhli loaches for almost 2 years now. They are amazing fish. I love them so much.
That's awesome! I love my little underwater noodles. :)
Thank you for the thorough video! I just brought home three Kuhli loaches and I was afraid they were stressed out because they were zooming all over the tank (which has hiding spots and plants) so it was comforting to know you had the same experience.
I love them! Never had any, but seeing them a lot on sites like this and want some. They are so cool.
Had Kuhlis in my first aquarium. They would hide in the seashells during the day and come out at night.
Loved this video! These have to be one of my favorite beginner fish species, as I'm a relatively new fish hobbyist ^.^
my first piece of content of yours - love your energy :) Thanks for the advice - subscribed!
I’ve been loving my Khuli loaches they swim and have so much personality
i totally agree kuhlis are the coolest fish in my tank. i have a very densely planted tank with about 6 and i see them out all the time ive also noticed that i hardly see any pond snails anymore. so i believe having them keeps the snails population in check. great video
Super informational and well edited video! I would love to see a video on dojo/weather loaches your style is much more inviting than others
Omg I just love khuli loaches they are the best never had a single issue with them so peacefully and explorative sometimes they’ll be out but most of the time they’ll be near some shade or just in dark place they are so adorable and amazing fish to watch. One of the best fish I ever had. And I love that they have such a long life time it makes me happy I can spend a decade with these creatures.
Yay, so glad there are so many other kuhli loach fans like me!
I have one kuhli losch right now and he is always out. He knows when it is around feeding time and he loves it. Can’t wait to get more
Love this video, these little guys are so underrated. Great little species spot light video!
Thank you! They're definitely one of my new favorite fish. :)
It's looking at me with reproach
Love your content. So helpful. Thank you!!!!
Thank you so much! That was extremely HELPFUL!
Favorite fish guide channel, thank you for educating me!
I just picked some up today! They are amazing!
This was such a cute and helpful video! I love the way you added the sources too(: Very cool!
Thank you so much! I loved being able to tell Spotty and Dotty's story while still being educational. :)
An old video but very very helpful. I love these little guys and the hillstream loaches. Very very cool
I just bought a few kuhli loaches today and when I saw them darting up and down the tank like yours I immediately got on TH-cam to see if that's normal. Perfect timing to see your video. I think they're the cutest thing ever. I just can't believe how fast they are.
I know! They're like speedy ninjas. ;)
Wonderful video! Thanks for the info it was very informative.
I love kuhli loaches they are truly individuals, I have been fortunate in that I always ended up getting very active ones. I am a night owl so I see even the shy ones at around 1 am. I have the same story with an old aquarium, it had been torn down for at least 4 months with water just deep enough to cover the gravel, no pump no heater.. I was scooping out the gravel to wash it ... and lo and behold there he was! I felt terrible and cleaned the tank out and popped him back in and he lived for years. I have been unable to find them near me for the past ohh.... 5 years? So i was thrilled when my local pet store ended up with 1... yes one... So he has no buddies yet, but I am hoping they get in more soon! Great starter fish and one I started with years and years ago as a complete newbie. I had him for at least 8 years... and back then I didn't even know they prefered to be in groups. I have grown quite partial to them!
I keep a group of 3 in my 10 gallon betta tank and they get along great. The betta sleeps while the loaches swim and while the batta is awake they will just swim near the bottom.
thank you for this! i just started my first tank and im in the cycling process really wanted to know which tank mate would work best with my future betta, definitely settling for 3 kuhli loaches in my 10 gallon :)
Me too I'm starting a tank
I have a 5.5 gal tank with several White clouds. I have a few snails rn but I want to switch for some cleaning fish. Do you think 3 of these would be okay? I couldn’t get more than 3 because of the size of my tank
@@talileonard2553 Don't think that's big enough.
Hi! I have a betta in a 10 gallon and was thinking of getting some loaches!! Is a 10 gallon really ok for them? Thank you so much!!
I love your black substrate/ live plant aesthetic.
I have four of these guys and I love them so much!
i agree with you about their supposed shyness. i had ONE that (still does) eats at the top with the surface dwellers. with 3 now i see LESS of them. so social that when there was one, seemingly it wanted the company of other fish.
3 of their kind and now they are snooty and i see less of them.
a fantastic fish!
Always great info. Thank you
I've had mine for over 10 years and am looking for some more as they are starting to die of old age. Have had them (9) with assorted tetras, dannios, and guppies. 30gal cube shaped tank with smaller smooth gravel, several flat rocks pushed into the slope of the gravel facing the front for caves, lots of plants, and around 74°f. One of my favorites!
I just started fishkeeping. I just got 6 Kuhlis in a 55 gallon and they have some hiding spots, but they still just chill out in the open. They are really cool and my 5 month old loves watching them
Your channel is amazing! Iv watched so many videos since iv fallen in love with the fish hobby recently and everytime I think about what I want next i think to myself... I wonder if girl talks fish had a video on it👁👄👁 the point is your videos are like just so estetically pleasing and full of infl at the same time!
just got them and can't stop watching them , they are so cute
Great videos and very informative 😃 thanks!
My all time favorite fish. I once had a 15 year old kuhli!
I have a shoal of Kuhli Loaches and they are super cute and full of personality. Mine are pretty active and love exploring around. But I focus on Blackwater and have dim lighting to make them cozy with the rest my blackwater fish. can't say enough how much I love these little goofy guys.
I have 2 khuli, 2 dojo, and 2 yoyo in my 33 long and I love them so much!
My 2 favorite loachs are hillstream and kuhli! Definitely my favorite bottom feeders
I got 6 of these recently and I am so glad I did.They were a bit shy at first, but now I see them all the time. Theres 3 I see regularly, and later at night I’ll see 5. There’s just one tiny one I rarely see. I put a lot of leaves, plants, rocks, and wood for them to hide in, so maybe that’s why. Even when I clean the tank or move things, they will swim around my hand, not shy at all. Sudden movements seems to be what scares them.
Great video production and filming! Thank you.
Thank you so much!
I've kept these little guys off and on since the late 70s or early 80s. They are one of my favorites. The only premature losses have been to ones that find a space between the filter and the lid where they jump out when they are zooming around the tank. Like the tank in the video, that was left for a year, mine was in the garage for a few months, hot as blazes at times, and when I dumped it a kuhli popped out. He lived out the rest of his life in a friends community tank. Hardy little guys.
I love Kuhli loaches they’re so cute 🥺💕
These lil guys are probably the coolest fish in my 75g betta sorority, been eyeing to snag a few from my LFS and managed to grab 2 remaining babies and they are chilling n hanging out like yours 24/7, they are the coolest cute little wigglers in the hobby, I plan on adding more when the opportunity rises, they have the cutest face and my kids loves them, win win
In my tank, I have a beta, snails, 2 zebra loaches, a Molly, and a khuli. Mine was very shy the first week or 2, but lately, I have seen him swim with my other loaches and play around with them. If i find any more, I’ll definitely get them.
Aren’t they the cutest, love mine! 👍🏻❤️ Mine live with a betta and a swordtail.
LOVE my kuhlis I love snakes and seeing them everyday has made me want a snake I can handle and I’m actually getting a banana ball python haha 🐍
How fun! I totally want a snake some day. :)
Got a friend of mine into the hobby. She really wanted Khuli loaches so I got her a pair as a gift after her aquarium was acclimated. She’s had them about 4 years now. And a few more she has added. Rescaped her whole tank to keep them happy.. sandy bottom, lots of hiding spots, plants, special foods. It’s adorable. Never tried them myself because they look like snakes 🐍 eeeek!
I have two at the moment (Jean and Marco) in my tank and they always explore together. I often see then interact with each other a lot (they do what I can best describe as kissing or grooming each other, it looks like it at least) but are not very shy. I only have one Betta and a snail with them and Kayn, my Betta, is extremely peaceful with them. They are probably my favourite fish at the moment and it gives me so much joy watching the pair sociliase with each other.
I love mine. they're playful and funny to watch
They love to swim up in my betta’s floating log and hang out with him! Haha!
Hey there's another fish like these there called Reed fish and they grow really long there relatively easy to care for needing a tropical tank im not sure if planted but mine enjoys the shade of plants and likes to hide, they also love bloodworm
stumbled across this video, sat here watching my khulis swim around. Its funny everywhere recommends sand, 300L (65 Gal) tank has a dedicated sandy area specifically for the kuhlis but they spend more time in the tetra active substrate on the opposite end of the tank.
Oh my gosh, _I love them._
Had some black kuhlis forever. Awesome fish to talk about and got a new sub to your channel.
Thank you so much!
Oh my god I just got some Kuhli loaches and I didn’t know why they were going up and down thanks for the information
👍Thank you for your Video😍 I Keep Kuhli Loaches for 35 years. I Love them and i think they have cute Faces 😉✨ Greetings from Germany
I got 3 of these for my 10 gallon and they all jumped out during the first night. Found all 3 on the floor in the morning. make sure you havea lid for them!
Cute! Great vid!
Just got 3 of these guys for my 30 very cute and curious
Those are very cool fish my friend
Cool on the “lost loach!”
Utterly love mine, some days you think they’ve all escaped and the next they are sat at the front
Lol, so true!
Kuhli Loach's have the perfect length in my opinion and a great personality
Love this species spotlight
My kuhli loach wasn't shy, even when she was living alone, got her two buddies and they became very active. They go around in the day and forage even though i only have two hardscape decorations. Though i have good plants for them to hide there favourite places are under the prefilter, inside the barrel, and under the gazebo which i placed carefully that they can slide under. The gravel i was lucky to have softer clay based but I had no idea about substrate when I did get them. Just lucky to have them thrive
I think all loaches are cute i have a nice golden dojo loach they are shy for a bit but they get used to it
Aaaaah a video about them! I love these. The only drawback is, i didn’t get to see them a lot :’(
Thank you for the guide I bought two of them and I never owned these guys before. Luckily my tank set up has a lot of plants for hiding spots.
Oh good, I hope you enjoy them!
i have 3 bronze juveniles corydoras right now i keep in my shrimps blackwater but once i get a 55 gallon tank to move them into im thinking of getting them some kuhlis as roommates :) i love these sweet boys and their cute little whiskers
I have java loaches and they inhabit a 55 black water with lots of knooks and places and they are very active and have different personalities and named double caff, half caff, decaf and Travis whom always is hamming it up during water changes and is a very social fish hanging out with the dwarf blue groms
Nice video. They have a very cute face and I like how they swin. And your axolotl earrings are cute too XD.
Thank you! My friend got them for me from Etsy.
Very informative video! I have a planted 10 falling tank and I'm trying to figure out what I'd like to put in it. I'd like to have either khuli loach, celestial pearl danios or a Betta. I'd really like to do a combination of some of these, any suggestions? You mentioned khulis like to be in 3 or more, but this would probably be too many for my 10 gallon. Thanks!
Ha! That story about the Kuhli Loach living in the emptied aquarium... When I was a kid, I drained-but-never-emptied an aquarium. When I went to set it up again ages later, I was shocked to find a giant Bronze Catfish living in a puddle under the partially-removed undergravel filter. Surprised the crap out of me...
Lol, that's crazy! I probably would've screamed if I had found a long-lost fish like that.
I'm looking into these as a possible predator of planaria worms. Would they eat those? Thank you for another excellent presentation. These will definitely cover an area of my aquarium that doesn't get much attention from the current residents.
I can't say for sure but ever since I got them the planaria disappeared from my tank. It could be a coincidence but I don't think so. It used to be quite bad.
@Girl Talks Fish
Your videos are always the most informative and fun to watch. Any question I have there's on of your videos on the top of the search list. Thank you!
I bought a Kuhki Loach last night, he jumped out of the net and swam straight to the bottom corner, under my cattapa leaf. I haven't not seen him since the first few minutes. I hope he is alive.
What a beautiful and cool tank u had for them :O
I have 5 they are the best fish ever
I just got some Kuhli loaches and some Golden Dojo loaches (different tanks), and they're incredibly entertaining to watch. My girlfriend hates them (too squiggly for her), but I think they're awesome!
Step 1: Buy more loaches!!!
Step 2: Dump gf...
Step 3: Repeat step 1...
I have 8 of them in 70 gallon aquarium planted tanks with no heater and I live in Alberta Calgary and there doing fine in 60 degrees
That's incredible! Definitely 1 vote for them being cold water fish. :)