What is the name of this fish?

Question

I found a fish at the Qian Hu Fish Farm. It kept sticking to the glass wall and I had to remove it using my fingers. What is this fish? Does it eat algae sticking on the fish tank walls? At best give its scientific name.

Picture of fish at:

http://quantumpixel.blogspot.com/2008/08/strange-fish.html

Answer 1

hillstream loach, but i call it

"the sucker fish" hahaha

Answer 2

hillstream loach i think it is anyway

Answer 3

i believe that's a Hillstream Loach. but i wouldn't know.

Answer 4

youse are all wrong its a bolivian suckerfish they rarely EVA go off the glass theyre pretty mad

Answer 5

It's a Hillstream Loach, which isn't actually a Loach, as it is in the family Balitoridae rather than Cobitidae.  Identification of the exact genus and species would require a picture of its dorsal side, but Beaufortia kweichowensis is among the most common.

EDIT: The fourth answer is eerily similar to mine... o_0

Answer 6

hillstream loach.

needs massive current, and cannot survive at warm temperatures for long.

Answer 7

Hi,

I think that its a butterfly plec.