From the article: Weather Loach
Have you kept a Weather Loach? If so, share your experiences about care, habitat, feeding and breeding of Weather Loaches. Your knowledge could help other owners! Share Your Experiences
Weather Loach in a Pond
- We've had a weather loach in an indoor tank but want to make it into a tropical rank. Could we put him in a large outdoor pond. We're in the UK. Is this OK? Will he tolerate winter temperatures - guidance on the net concerning temp range seems to vary.
- —Guest Guest Vic
2 loaches
- So yesterday I went out and bought two dojo loaches at my semi-local pet store. Right now they are about 3 inches each. One has spots and the other has stripes. Right now they are in a ten gallon tank with three 1 inch goldfish. They hopefully will be moved up to a 55 gallon tanks when I can afford a tank that size and the petco has their dollar per gallon sale. Right now they are being fed any flakes that the goldfish dont eat as well as shrimp pellets and algea wafers. I just love the snake like movement! All in all they are a great fish and I think they would make a great addition to any coldwater fish tank. If you dont already have some... Go out and get some!!!
- —Guest Ray
spots and stripes
- just got two weather loaches today,so far they just seem to hide and haven't noticed the sand we put in for them. They don't seem to mind our 6 goldfish and 3 guppies one betta and an unknown number of baby bristlenose plecos, and finally our apple snail, Bob. They are really cool and have a good attitude!
- —Guest bob the apple snail
age
- Just lost my weather loach, gutted, i bought him when i first moved out from parents as we were not allowed dogs cats etc, i was 17 then, i am now 46, makes him 29 at least, i dont know how long he was in shop before i bought him, is this old for a weather loach? i would definately get a couple more, in fact just ordering a pair now from an online fish store, if they live 29 years that would make me 75 wow.
- —Guest ray
tropical!
- I have two weather loaches in my 20 gallon tank. They live in a tropical tank as they also live with guppies and Siamese fighting fish and they seem to love it! Don't like being handled though :-( very hard to catch when I want to clean the tank and they haven't jumped out of the tank yet! Mine seem very boring compared to the stories I've just read..
- —Guest :)
They hatched one day after!!!
- I already have a few babys!!! I just can't believe how small they are... I mean my guppy fry that is like 1 week old was eating the dojo fry. I even had to remove the other babies... They are odd shaped, they don't look at all like the adults ( shape wise) obviously they are transparent, ohhh yes and the eggs this morning looked like if hair was growing around them. I'm sorry I don't have pictures. But we wouldn't be able to appreciate it with this camera... Ohhh I'm so excited, I'll tell you more about them tomorrow!!!
- —Guest Tangie4
They layed eggs!!!!!
- I'm gonna have a bunch of dojos yaaaaay! I'm so excited, I never thought it was gonna happen since I live in cancun, and they prefer cold weather, but it did, and I have it on video, on you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6giMDsos8Vw&feature=youtube_gdata_player is in spanish, I'm sorry for that. But it was an amazing experience watching them do they're magic!!!!! I hope you like my video! And I hope you get the chance to see this in your aquarium!
- —Tangie4
Loach Pile!
- Loach wise, I have a single gold dojo, 4 weathers and 4 black kuhlis in my 60 gallon tank with a variety of other fish and they are a ball! They all pile on top of each other in a single corner of my tank and make this 'num num num num num' face at me. I often refer to them as my "squirrely fish", for obvious reasons. It's the funniest thing when I turn on the tank lights in the morning and seeing a tall tangle of squirmy loaches in a single corner. They've even seemed to adopt my 12" spotted peacock eel as one of their own, often hanging out with him as well as each other. I've never seen any of them pick on any of my other fish or be aggressive in any way. Though, every fish is unique, so one MIGHT find one more aggressive than most, but I haven't found one yet. They are, by far, the most entertaining fish I have ever seen. Easy care, long life, GREAT personality, and I think they're adorable in their own little way.
- —Guest XionAirin
Fish lover
- I have a weather loach. He’s 8 inches and he is friendly. I love him to bits. I was away for one night and when I came home I could not see him in tank. Went to bed and my girl friend come in my bed room and said Mum found him. He was on my flour all night. It took him two days, but he’s ok now. I have 3 baby ones in the tank somewhere under the rocks and plants.
- —Guest jacky
Lochy
- I have one, he got out of his tank 3 weeks ago. He was poor for a bit. He's named after Lochy. He's big, and he is 5 years old. He's funny when it comes to feed time, he comes to eat out of my hand. I love him o bits.
- —Guest jacky
Squrmy worms!!
- This is what my 3 year old daughter Maddy screamed out, with much delight, in the crowded pet store. I have kept fish tanks for years and I had never cared for a squrmy worm. She couldn't keep her eyes off of them.... Laughing at their every move. I thought to myself, "as long as they don't take special food, I'll get her one. 5 years later and 7 more squrmy additions, we still have so much fun watching them! All of them are called Squrmy Worm and each one is different. Personality and coloring. They should never be without another one... I have a 75 gal. tank filled with 5 Koi, 7 goldfish, 1 blue gill, 1 bass, and the 3 weather loaches and 5 dojo loaches. I find them laying in a heap one on top the other, peeking out from under stuff I have built ubove the substrate just for them. They also tell me the time and not just the weather. When I see them all swimming about, it is 6:30pm. They sure squrmed their way into my heart! Great cleaup crew and comic relief!
- —Guest Sandy
Playful and full of personality!
- My gold Weather Loach, Confucius, is about 5" long now. He's very friendly towards me and other fish and enjoys playing with my Clown Loaches. He lets me pet him in the tank. He is a food hoarder though. I put a cocktail shrimp in the tank once and he wedged into a corner behind a rock so other fish wouldn't find it! Hes really a cool fish. I would definitely recommend these guys.
- —Guest Dillon
OLD LOACH
- JUST LOST MY LOACH YESTERDAY HE WAS 20 YEARS OLD IS THIS ABOVE AVERAGE AGE FOR A LOACH?
- —Guest JOCK
Yawning
- Have you ever seen them yawn? Almost all of the weather loaches I have kept over the years yawn in a spectacular way - the mouths extend right out, then after the yawn, they curl they mouth back under itself. It's sooo funny. And the farting thing is when they gulp air and extract the oxygen through their gut - I believe it is our they can survive in very low oxygen environments - i.e. stagnant pools and the like.
- —Guest Dave
Mojo Dojo :)
- I've had my weather loach for about six months now. He loves his tank mate, the plecostomus, and our surviving Goldfish. Mojo Dojo is a fabulous fish, always playing tag with Sucker Punch, the plecostomus. He loves blood worms and new friends, always running into things and going crazy during thunderstorms. This week, we added two more gold fish, and they beat him quite horribly. He's looking rather pale and seems to be dying.. :( He has a large white spot on his back, and won't eat. Every now and again, he flips upside down at the top of the tank, only to swim around furiously when I pet his stomach. I would really hate to lose him because he is by far my favorite fish. :(
- —Guest Sarah Kay
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