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queen loach bota dario profile

Queen loach ( bota dario ) is one of best choice to make community fish tank. These are also known as bengal loach. These are bottom dwellers and live on the bottom for most of the time. They graze of the fish tank surface to search food. These are shy in nature and keeps on hiding most of the time. So provide them lots of plants, drift wood and other hiding spots.

Queen loach ( bota dario ) becomes more active when the lights are out so you can put very low intensity lights and watch them swim. Queen loach are scaleless fish which make them very sensitive to water condition and other parameters so take care of it.So try to maintain water conditions at its best.

They are peaceful in nature and other fish can live well with them. They can live up to 5 yrs with maximum size of 3 inches. Breeding is very difficult and rarely occurs in aquarium. Queen loach ( bota dario ) fish can easily get infected by disease such as itch and other skin infection. In this case get proper information about the use of cure since it may kill queen loach. Queen loach ( bota dario ) are tropical fishes and can help in forming good tropical fish tank.


Temperature : 23 to 28 degrees Celsius

Tank size : 20 gallon or more

Food : omnivorous

Lifespan : 5 years

Breeding : very difficult

Size : 3 inches

Care : Moderate