Golden Sucker Loach

[menacer]

My partner has a tank at her house (cold water) she has 4 fairly large goldfish in there. We recently went to pets at home and got 2 golden sucker loach. They did not tell us that these sucker loach will grow and kill the other fish like i have just read on another site. Is this the case?

 

[Essjay]

Do you mean the yellow form of the golden algae eater? They do eat alage as babies, but they stop eating it as they grow older, and the develop a taste for the slime coat of other fish. That's not saying they will, but they could.
Also they are tropical fish, so won't do well in a cold water tank.

But there is also a yellow form of the weather loach, which are cool water fish. These don't attack other fish.

Which ones do you have?

 

[menacer]

I dont know, they were in a cold water tank at the LFS but he wrote on the receipt golden sucker loach?

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

as for the sucking loach, I had then in with goldfish and one started to get aggressive so I got rid of them both, not before attacking my goldfish though. As for the golden loach (dojo/weather loach) they will be fine with the goldfish.

I would guess they are the golden algae eaters though (try and take a photo/find a link online) and post it here (actually I have photos of the ones I had online, I'll past their links at dinner time)

 

[lilfishie]

is THIS them?

 

[menacer]

Its the one on the right on THIS page!

 

[lilfishie]

they will get agressive as they grow and goldies are the perfect targets as they are big and slow, i have heard of them sucking the slime coats off angelfish and removing eyes

 

[menacer]

Taking them back thnks for the help can't believe the LFS didn't say

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

Taking them back thnks for the help can't believe the LFS didn't say

I bought mine and I specifically said "will they be ok with goldfish?" - I mean it's not like I didn't ask exactly the right question or didn't say what was in the tank. Never mind!