Kottelatlimia pristes

[ThomasParticipant]

Hi,

 

This is my second try with this species. Came in as K. hipporhynchos from Ruinemans (wholesaler from netherland) The pic on their page is showing another Kottelatlimia. So I ordered a few at my LFS and today I could get them. 2 males and 4 females.

My first try ~ 6 years ago was ended after 8 or 9 days. Then were all died.

Reckon this time works better!

 

 

Cheers,

Thomas

[PlaamooParticipant]

Good luck with them Thomas! My k. hipporhynchos lasted several months but are all gone, as far as I know anyway.

[MattKeymaster]

Best of luck Thomas, they look to be in relatively good condition?

Edit: have added a couple of these pics to the species profile. 

[ThomasParticipant]

Thanksguys! Yes, they aren’t in top condition, but I’m confident. At the moment they still sit in tap water.

They’re starting to search a bit around. Till now I couldn’t notice any feeding. Sure it’s only a thing of time

[ThomasParticipant]

As I said, a matter of time…

[MattKeymaster]

Very good.

[ThomasParticipant]

They’ve settled down and it looks good. Slowly burrowing through the sand.

 

 

 

[ThomasParticipant]

Sadly after a few weeks all of the “second try Kottelatlimia” died.

yesterday I got the chance to try it again… 8 tiny Kottelatlima in a small tank and this time with uv-sterilization.

 

 

 

[PlaamooParticipant]

Good luck with them Thomas! Mine are long gone also. Nice little fish!

[MattKeymaster]

Good luck Thomas! I wonder if this is naturally a short-lived species.

[ThomasParticipant]

I don’t know Matt, but I could imagine they live up to five years, same as Lepidocephalichthys do. Or shorter?

At least till now I have only two losses, and it looks not too bad. Two times I have seen that a male (?) “attached” to a female and swim a short time (a very short time) with her side by side. The female wasn’t a big fan of it…

 

 

 

 Last pic is from today.

[PlaamooParticipant]

“The female wasn’t a big fan of it…”  

[oakenParticipant]

Some really good pictures there. Best of luck with them!

[Barb ManParticipant]

Awesome pics guys and my Acantopsis dialuzona hide for a few months before he started to come out now he shows up at night or during feeding time. He also hides when there is a build up of algae or debris. They don’t like low quality water. Also he comes out more now that I have some white clouds to fill in the empty space, like in the profile pages it says that they come out when other fish are present because it means there aren’t any predators around.

Maybe that was just me stating the obvious but that’s what I’ve seen and I believe my species is closely related to all of the ones pictured, hopefully this helps newbies looking to house any loaches that acts like these.

Barb man

[ThomasParticipant]

Five of them are still alive (I hope…)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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