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This Butterfly Loach was sucking onto the front glass of an aquarium, when I photographed it, so you're looking through the glass at the
underside of this Butterfly Loach. This fish is also called the Hill Stream Loach. |
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Scientific Name. Beaufortia kweichowensis.
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Comments
Butterfly Loaches naturally live in fast moving streams where the water is cool and saturated with oxygen. They eat mostly algae that they scrap
off the rocks. This fish is also called the Hill Stream Loach or sometimes the Hillstream Loach.
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Appropriate Home
An aquarium with an
exterior power filter with a BIO-Wheel and a
maximum of 1/4 inch of
gravel. Butterfly Loaches can adapt to living in aquariums with or without an aquarium heater. Click
here
for more information about warm water aquariums. Click
here for more about cool water aquariums.
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Most Eels, Sharks,
and
Loaches
love Cichlid Stones,
which are natural
looking ceramic aquarium
caves . Click
here for more about
Cichlid Stones.
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Recommended Diet
Floating flake food. Perhaps some sinking food pellets but be careful because uneaten food
will soon spoil and pollute the water. Also occasionally feed Butterfly Loaches live or frozen food such as live Black Worms and live or frozen brine shrimp. Click
here
for more about feeding fish. |
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Compatibility
All
Gouramis, all
Barbs,
all Danios, all
Rainbows,
White
Clouds, one
Red Tail Shark or one
Rainbow Shark. Butterfly Loaches can also tolerate cooler water and do well in cool water aquariums and ponds with
Goldfish. Click
here to read more about several other groups of compatible fish.
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Size and Life Span
Butterfly Loaches grow to 3" and live for several years.
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