Synonyms: None

Type Locality: Palembang, River Kwanten, western Sumatra, Indonesia

Size: 300mm SL

General Remarks: A large species, that needs big tanks; 120 cm front length with at least 350 liters volume are necessary to care a group of them appropriate. A social species; must be cared in a group of a least six to eigth individual, better more.

Feeding: As an omnivore species, the clown loach can be feed by almost all available fish food, appropriate to the size of the individuals.

Furniture: Cared best with caves of bamboo pipes or similar.

Registered Keepers: (1) Jools (k: 4), (2) leuka-loches-botia, (3) Tamcon83 (k: 6), (4) ali.

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Sexing: There are no reliable secondary sexual dimorphisms or dichromatisms. In gravid females sometimes the eggs can be seen and then the individuals can be reliably sexed.

Breeding Reports: None.

Last Update: 2011-08-03 12:13:25 (species record created: 2011-07-02 12:17:41)