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bringing it to you on a Sunday baby how is everybody doing hope you're doing
well hope you had a great week what we're excited about an awesome week
ahead no pre NFL team does well today the Browns are playing it means the
brows aren't losing so life's good for Dustin here's what's going on folks
today I want to talk about not one not two but three species of loaches for you
all that's right species Sunday Triple Threat bringing it to you
loaches bow Tia's particularly fantastic bottom-feeding fish they come from all
over Asia and I'm going to show you some maps of those in a minute
um wonderful wonderful wonderful head killing snails I wish I had a business
that I could just rent people lunches rental oats Dustin's rental oats you
rent a load for me it eats all your snails you come back you give me back
the low to the spatter and healthier so um they've got the biologically they're
just made to do it they've got these fangs they kind of point down and they
can poke around and stuff but you don't if you have a snow problem you don't
want to give them a lot of food you actually want to cut back to feeding for
a while on your whole tank your other fish will be fine everybody will be okay
don't feed your fish for a couple days and let the snails is be annihilated by
the Loach's so I thought that was pretty sweet just start with a couple days
ability to heck out of your snails another thing I thought was interesting
is they also have these pharyngeal teeth if you will or throat teeth and it was
pretty cool because what they do is they take the food and they actually like
kind of suck it in at these they dig deep dirt if you will and they uh they
like eat the rest of it on its way down goldfish have these teeth by the way too
so um yeah something else cool about the biologically that I didn't notice until
I had a lutea angelica's this they've got these wicked little spikes that kind
of come out and go whap right above their eyes so if somebody's messed with
them or they feel threatening they're sitting still they don't do all their
swimming they'll just kind of like pop I like point this little spike out like
don't mess with me dude I got the spike so I thought that was pretty wicked
great little bottom feeder they generally like the company of others
I personally kept them in pairs but you can see just by the way these two dudes
act my beautiful multi angelicus ah that they obviously like having each other
around so I'd like to see them to school or six and they can be pretty wicked
um know one thing with these bottom feeders though I don't recommend keeping
them with Cory cats Cory's to chill to kind of keep up with the
eating habits of most loaches I love Chester like generally just faster
quicker get to the food easier these guys swim up with much more aggressive
fish to eat on the food as well so they don't leave a lot of left for the Cory
cats I'm keeping them in here but I make sure my pores are well fed but the
Loach's are definitely faster and all over it so um couple of species worth
check out I actually got four species for you three of them that I like one
that I heard um one more checking out yo-yo-yo-yo launches folks that come
from India and the northern part of India and the kind of the Ganges River
Basin if you will readily available I like a little more aggressive than in
some other ones but still overall a pretty community lunch one worth
checking out zebra loaches are another one they
actually come from the western part of India in the ghats of India don't
thought I pronounced it right um these both of these fish that I've seen they
get about you know three inches or so the striped ones are also pretty
commonly available and then here you can see this photo of the peaceful-looking
Mekong River isn't that beautiful but in this
peaceful River is an unpeaceful asshole of a fish called the skunk loach alright
this fish I hate this fish I'm sorry I had him in this 125 down in
Florida I was on a loach bender I just gotten some cool loaches and I was like
how much check out this skunk just little white bastard swam all over was
just ruin the function where my tank is angry aggressive I put him in with
african cichlid I do not Dustin does not recommend skunk low to spring peaceful
Zen tank you've got some African cichlids there's some amine fish put him
there this was ruthless ruthless chasing everybody around so I am the anti skunk
lodge you do not buy scum closures if you want a peaceful you're not there not
a piece of fish died only so and finally my favorite loach the butea angelicus
okay now I got this from my dude Mugsy I hope he still has a pet store in Pompano
Beach Florida it was sick and I was like what it is is a Bhatia angelicus and I
got home there were this big these guys are smaller they look a lot like the
yo-yo loach when they get bigger they get darker and they have these like
golden dots all over man wicked wicked cool so these are from
all up there marry a morever Burma area and you can see it on the map here also
perhaps in Thailand so blue tea alleges are some of my favorites so there's
three lunches I like one species of looks that I hate if you like what I'm
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