HILLSTREAM LOACHES

NOTE: All catfish and loaches are quarantined and given a course of treatment consisting of antibiotic and dewormer before being sold. This ensures that our fish are free from diseases common in wild caught fish.

 

Hillstream Loaches: The Specialists at Life in the Fast Lane.

A great article by Martin Thoene on maintaining hillstream loaches


Hawaii residents, please read this.

 

DUE TO THE EXTREME COLD WEATHER IN MY AREA, I WILL NOT BE SHIPPING LIVESTOCK AT THIS TIME.

I HOPE TO BEGIN SHIPPING AGAIN SHORTLY AFTER NEW YEARS, WEATHER PERMITTING.

 

 

 

 Banded Loach
 Pseudogastromyzon fasciatus
$12.00 ea    3/$32    6/$60


Spotted Sewellia
Sewellia sp.
$15.00 ea. 3/$40

Saddled Loach
Homaloptera orthogoniata

 

$16.00 each  3 for $45.00

 

 

 Smith's Loach
Homaloptera smithii

 

A great beginners hillstream loach. Easy to care for. Adults inhabit high gradient streams over fast bedrock, cobble runs and rapids while juveniles in slower stretches of gravel and exposed tree roots. Feeds on aquatic insect larvae. Reaches 6 cm SL.


 

$6.00 each , 6 for $33.00, 12 for $60.00

 

Hong Kong Otocinclus
Pseudogastromyzon cheni 

$5 each   3/$13.50   6/$24.00

 

 

Chinese Butterfly Plecostomus
Beaufortia levertti
 

 

Inhabits mountain streams with gravel bottoms. Reaches 12 cm. in length.

 

3/$18.00   6/$30.00

 

 

 

 

 Spotted/Spiny-head Hillstream Loach
Gastromyzon ctenocephalus/Gastromyzon ocellatus

 

 You will get a mix of the two species.

3/$15.00   6/$25.00

 

 

 

 Tiger butterfly Hillstream Loach
Sewellia lineolata
 

Rheophilous, inhabits rapids and riffles. Occurs in, small streams with large and deep pools covered by submerged plants, provided that small riffles are present between these pools; high gradient streams consisting almost exclusively of waterfalls; in larger rivers, at the upper extremity of riffles where current velocity do not exceed 0.2 m/sec, as well as habitats with high water velocities exceeding 1 m/sec. Often associated with Annamia normani, Balitora sp., Schistura spp., Glyptothorax spp., Anguilla marmorata, and Rhinogobius spp. Stomach contents include benthic invertebrates and algae. Observed to be active during daytime searching in the periphyton on both horizontal and vertical surfaces of stones probably searching for aquatic invertebrates. From Fishbase.

 
$10.00 each