Kuhli what would you do?

[crystalview]

I found that I have one Kuhli left out of the 6 I sold.  It has been 8wks since I sold the others and this is the first I seen of him.  I have been told they do better in groups of 6 or more.  So I worry he won't be ok.  I have been adding plants to my tank and he would be a pain to try to catch.  No one sells them around here I got them from Frank.  Will he be ok?

[Druiqks]

Kuhlis don't need companions, they do fine seldom.

[crystalview]

Maybe It was that they played more together if there were more of them.  He was out last night and all over the tank so I will leave him to see what happens.  I do know when they are unhappy there color gets light.  He is bright brown and white.

[Druiqks]

Maybe It was that they played more together if there were more of them.  He was out last night and all over the tank so I will leave him to see what happens.  I do know when they are unhappy there color gets light.  He is bright brown and white.

It is that they will be more rambunctious with companions, just like banjo catfish. Most people keep banjos alone, but if you watch at night, they hunt in packs. I have a trio and they're always buried near eachother.

[PossumLady]

I had a lone kuhli for years (never knew he wanted friends of his own species), he became quite tame and would come eeling quickly up to the top when I tapped lightly, to eat freeze-dried tubifex worms from my fingers.
(Yep, I had waaaaay too much free time on my hands.)

[Barcode711]

I've got 6 Kuhlis, but they all hid until I got some free-swimming tankmates. In my experience, their activeness is primarily determined by:
1. How many/how large/how safe hiding places are (more = much better),
2. How bright the tank (less = a little better), and
3. How safe other fish look (more = better).
I have the first locked down. The second is something I can't change - they come out more at night. The third is something I recently changed, and it seemed to improve things.

They don't seem to interact much other than hanging out together. I've seen a few that hang out on their own comfortably - but I've never had only one, so I can't tell you whether or not it's just because the others are around. Other people in this thread seem to think they're fine on their own, so they probably are.

[Yipee]

They will come out more often in the day and be brave enough to snatch algae wafers from corys and plecos if there is more of them. Sounds like Operation Kuhli, other 5 act as decoy and distract my corys while the black kuhli(largest) pushes the wafer back to the coconut cave followed by the rest of the gang.