Photo by Neil Lourie

Distribution: Thailand, Malaya,Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Indonesia
Length: 3 1/2 in, possibly more
Diet: flakes, freeze-dried foods,any small live foods
Water Temperature: 70-75 F
Community Tank Enviroment

(Please Note: The following text has been taken directly from the March 1996 issue of Aquarium Fish Magazine. The author, Alfred D. Castro, was responding to a reader's request for more information about kuhli loaches.)

The kuhli loach ("coolie" is an often seen mistake) is a fascinating and hardy species that fits well into a small fish community aquarium. They like clean, clear water, and do best with aquarium gravel, such as fine sand, that does not have sharp edges. This approximately duplicates their natural habitat, which is the sandy beds of mountain steams or slow flowing rivers. They actually seem to do better in an aquarium that has a slight buildup of organic mulm or peat moss on the surface of the substrate.

They accept a wide range of water chemistries - pH ...

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