Khuli Loaches
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Kuhlis do not eat fish fry and snails. They will however appreciate anything you give them provided those are small enough to fit their mouths. Be patient with them. They will not show up unless your tank has subdued lighting, heavily-planted/decorated or during darkness.
Good to know they don't eat snails, I have breeding pond snails in the same tank as them. If I roughly crushed some different flake foods, they would eat them? We have 2 banded and just a normal grey/brown Khuli. The normal Khuli eats the small betta flakes I sprinkle in. I don't know if the banded Khuli's will eat them though, as we've only had them 2 days. Would they eat live and/or frozen foods? Like Blood Worms and the such?
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The grey/brown could be Pangio oblonga. The others are Pangio kuhlii but there is the possibility of Pangio semicincta as well. All Pangios will eat anything you give including frozen and live foods.
I have about a dozen of the black kuhlis, and mine love sinking wafers. Either the algae kind or the "bottom feeder" kind from Hikari.. Give them lots of little caves to hide in, and they'll love you for it. Mine come out like a swarm of bees when I drop some wafers outside their cave.
I'd second the Hikari sinking wafers. They go right to the bottom and you will be sure they got something to eat when you see the khulis chowing down on them.
Don't worry about the flakes, they'll fall eventually and get eaten. I put two shrimp pellets in daily, but rarely see them getting eaten. The kuhlis like to hide most of the day.
One of mine is no longer a bottom dweller. My wisteria rotted at the base of the stem over a year ago and has been a floating plant since. I changed jobs a month ago and had to move the tank, which was traumatic for everyone. Now, one of the kuhlis lives in that floating plant. Sometimes you can see him slithering through. One of the others will sometimes come to visit, but the third never comes out of the little jar decoration he lives in.
They'll grub around on the bottom for food, and eat about anything. You may not see them eat often though, because they're just plain shy.
One of mine is no longer a bottom dweller. My wisteria rotted at the base of the stem over a year ago and has been a floating plant since. I changed jobs a month ago and had to move the tank, which was traumatic for everyone. Now, one of the kuhlis lives in that floating plant. Sometimes you can see him slithering through. One of the others will sometimes come to visit, but the third never comes out of the little jar decoration he lives in.
They'll grub around on the bottom for food, and eat about anything. You may not see them eat often though, because they're just plain shy.