Origin: Indonesia
Size: they can grow quite large but normally you'll find one in shops at about 5 cm
Temperature: they do best at a temperature around 25' - 27' degrees Celsius
Water Conditions: soft to neutral with a PH of about 6 - 7
comments: a moderately easy fish to keep they are lovely colored with orange full body and black stripes from top to bottom they are most well known for there habit of eating the pest snails people have in there aquarium, and that may well be why there so popular to this day. although they are very timid and don't bother anything including other fish or your hands in the aquarium they'll normally just swim off but you must always be careful this is there home now and they will defend themselves if scared at all with a shark spike that will flick out around its eye its used in the wild to stop it from being eaten from predators.
the common
clown loach swimming peacefully around any tank.
the sharp
spikes that come out when they feel threatened.