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Very interesting indeed. Not so "hillstreamy" conditions and still they go at it like rabbits Well soon I´ll find out if theyre easy to breed or maybe you´ve got some very horny individuals.

Nice! Could you tell me about the tank setup and conditions? I´m getting 7 sewellias on tuesday and would love to see some babys here too.

Added a movie to the movie section which takes a "deeper" look into the tank

Heres the direct link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/janma79/Mov ... 4387079778

Quick question for you Janma. Do your loach eat live shrimp? And do the shrimp cleanup waste or extra food? The hillies don´t eat live shrimp, only shrimp pellets. And a big YES for the cleanup. They are excellent janitors for a tank, as long as fish don´t put them on the meny. Waste, food, dead pl...

It´s made out of styrox with rocky shapes and colored. Trying to get some algae growing on it, but I think the shrimp population is keeping it too clean.

-23C! that is COLD. and i was fed up as it was does the cold temeratures cause you problems in keeping tanks warm enough in winter - or just lots of expense in heaters? No, the heating of the apartment is included in the maintenance charge, which is same all year. It´s +23C in the apartment and ~+2...

Thanks for the compliments :) I´ve noticed big changes in behavior and coloration on the occelatus , of the good sort. Probably the current, thinking of getting one powerhead more but this will do for a while. And I wont be getting the Sewellia in a while since the temperature has dropped to -23C/-9...

Now I´ve re-decorated the tank to better suite hillstream loaches, got the occelatus allready but next week the shopkeeper will order me some Sewellia Lienolata . :D Here the outcome, the right end of the tank has 3 different outlets. An 800L/h powerhead, eheim aquaball 2212 and eheim 2226 outer fil...

Congratulations Mark. DUFFMAN - OH YEAH!!!

Sweet! I want it too! I figure you ordered online, so whats the website?

My Gastromyzons are quite active and little territorial so I wouldnt put them in a 10 gallon tank. And danios are schooling fish, they prefer to be in groups of six or more, they are also active swimmers so 10 gallons might not be suited for them either. But these are only my opinions.

Ok, thats what I thought. Only thought I´ts better to use some sand, filter or other material from old tank to get things started.

Going OT, how much does a sewellia lineolata cost over there? Here I found one place that had them and they were 12€ (15.5496 USD.

Nice, got me interested of the species too, have to check out availability.

BTW, why are you moving water from other tanks?

One thing I noticed today during feeding was that the red-tailed ones were alot more aggresive and territorial and kept chasing the blue/whites away, only other occelatus were "terrorized" no other. I´ve had these for some months now and this was new or I haven´t noticed, never gets booring with the...

This is my first post on LOL, so hello everybody and greetings from Finland. The weather here is up-side-down, but the sun is shining :). Well anyways, the reason I´m posting is that I´ve got Spiney-headed hillstream loaches, which are some of the finest and interesting fish I´ve ever had. And the q...