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Best bottom feeder fish for 20 gallon tank license#

Origin: Trinidad and Tobago, Guianas, Brazil.Food: It is omnivorous, can eat live feeds, herbs, daphnia, and bloodworms, glass worms, tubifex, brine shrimps, unwanted snails, and it loves to scour your tank for detritus.Compatibility: It is friendly with other loaches and can form a school with them, not recommended to join with angelfish, guppies, tetras, bettas, and other fish with long tails and fins to avoid being also nipped not compatible with cory catfish because they are both territorial fishes.Behavior: It is a community fish, peaceful, friendly, and playful and loves to seek and to hide, egg-layers, prefers bright lighting, and it is not nocturnal.Description and Size: hardy fish, with yellow or orange vertical stripes on the entire body, can reach the size of 4 inches.Common Names: crossbanded loach, candy stripe loach, lined loach, tiger loach, zebra botia, striped loach, zebra loach.Compatibility: can join with non-aggressive fish but not Cichlids.Behavior: peaceful, bottom dwellers, bottom feeders, night cleaners, want to cower and hide, slinks on a tank, burrow, jumps out of the aquarium, prefers schooling.Description: It looks like a small eel with a distinct color, brown bands, and bold yellow stripes adult size is 4-5 inches.Common Names: Coolie Loach, Leopard Loach, Cinnamon Loach.

Best bottom feeder fish for 20 gallon tank license#

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Food: This loach fish is an omnivore, and can devour on most foods, various insects, herbs, dry and live foods, brine shrimps, bloodworms, and algae.

It is not good to join timid and slow-moving fish and aggressive ones. It forms a school of the same kind so you can keep at least 3 in your tank.

Compatibility: The fish is very personable with small catfishes, can get along well with its cousin, the clown loach.

It gets excited with its fish keeper and can play with him. The fish is a bottom dweller and an egg-layer. It is peaceful and playful among aquarium bottom feeders but can also feed on the surface of the water.

Behavior: They call it Yoyo because the fish used to bounce like a Yoyo toy.

Its mouth is always pointing downward with four pairs of whiskers called barbels. The fish can turn bluish during dim light and can convert to gray when in fighting mode and hiding. It got its name because of its giraffe-like pattern markings wherein there are lots of Y and O on its body. It is more apparent when younger but gets reticulated during maturity.

Description and Size: Its body is silver with dark coloring.

Common Names: Reticulated Loach, Y-Loach, Yo Yo Loach, Pakistani Loach, Almorha Loach.