Commonly known as "Loach Catfishes"or "African
Whiptails" due to the resemblance that some of them
have to the whiptails of the South American Loricariidae family.
Not too well known to aquarists as they are only sporadically
exported. A little harder to keep than their South American
companions. They do like moving water hence their other common
name of "African hill stream fishes".
