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Spined Loach
Spined Loach in Petit Planet: habitat, time, weather and recorded one-, two- and three-star selling prices. Checked against the community wiki.
At a glance

Admiring spined loaches is also an exercise in honing your exceptional observation skills.
Where and when to find it
- Habitat
- River
- Distribution
- All Regions
- Time
- Nighttime
- Weather
- Any Weather
- Season
- Year-Round
- Type
- Freshwater Fish
- Minimum size
- 3
- Maximum size
- 5
Selling prices
- ★ catch
- 33 Dough
- ★★ catch
- 36 Dough
- ★★★ catch
- 43 Dough
Catalog sorting uses the one-star price. A blank source value is shown as not recorded, rather than estimated.
Omnipedia
- Scientific name
- Cobitis taenia
- Region
- Coolwater Zone
The Spined Loach is small and highly alert. In most environments, it'll dart off to find shelter at the slightest sign of trouble. If there's a thick enough layer of sand, it'll burrow in straight away and "vanish." Because of this, catching a glimpse of one in an aquarium can be pretty tricky.
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Sources & version
Adapted from The Petit Planet Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Checked 2026-10-20. Source revision 31299 (2026-10-03). These are beta records; values can change. Unrecorded values remain unknown.