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- Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:22 pm
- Forum: Loach Forum
- Topic: Which tank for Niwaella delicata
- Replies: 5
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Which tank for Niwaella delicata
Hi Gang, it's been a while since I posted. Still have a house full of loaches. So I just got 3 Niwaella delicata, in a Q tank with a powerhead. They seem quite happy in there with some Rapashys from time to time, and I'll start some baby brine shrimp. I'm trying to figure out which tank to put them ...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:24 am
- Forum: Loach Forum
- Topic: Homaloptera smithis bought as Balitora burmanica
- Replies: 9
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Re: Balitora burmanica
If you do want Balitora Burmanica, Wetspot in Portland has been shipping them for some months now. He's calling them, on his lis, "Butterfly butterfly loach loach." So that's what we call them around here. We got four of them in January, and they seem to be thriving in the river tank.
- Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:27 am
- Forum: Loach Forum
- Topic: botia striata or Botia kubotai most playful/active?
- Replies: 7
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Re: botia striata or Botia kubotai most playful/active?
In my experience, the kubotai grow pretty slowly, so if you have long term hopes of getting a larger tank, you'd have a while. In our tank we seem to have an unusually active and visible school of striata, for whatever reason. Indeed, one of the striata seems to be the dominant fish for the whole ta...
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:15 pm
- Forum: Loach Forum
- Topic: tank disaster of 2010
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20762
Re: tank disaster of 2010
Yes, Glenna, it does look great! You may remember we also had a tank disaster last early January. Katie says it was the 4th. Has she posted about this years? It was January 5th, this time. I had been in my office working. Katie called me, and I walked out of my office with the phone, to hear a tank ...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:32 am
- Forum: Loach Forum
- Topic: temperature probe for DIY hillstream chiller?
- Replies: 1
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temperature probe for DIY hillstream chiller?
Cooling the hillstream river tank: Right now I have a little woodstove fan on a lamp timer blowing down on the water surface, set to blow about half the time. I fiddle with the timing a bit depending on ambient temperature, but it does keep the hillstream river tank around the mid-70s with some fidd...
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:28 am
- Forum: Loach Forum
- Topic: Gastromyzon viriosus
- Replies: 39
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We got at least one of these the other week. Maybe two. The one is picture perfect as an example of the viriosus. It's very animated, moving about a lot, healthy and perky in the Q tank for these two weeks. The other one looks a lot like it in pattern, but it is less yellow (no yellow at all really)...
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:23 am
- Forum: Freshwater Forum
- Topic: Nitrates/algae driving me nuts!!
- Replies: 11
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- Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:53 am
- Forum: Loach Forum
- Topic: Humming powerhead.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4613
Our powerheads-on-manifolds were horribly hummy. Out of everything I tried, there were two things that helped the most: 1: Isolate the powerhead from the manifold with a length of rubber hose. The rubber absorbs a lot of vibration. 2: Contrary to others' experience, I actually found that isolating t...
- Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:45 am
- Forum: Freshwater Forum
- Topic: Goby -- Gobioiess serratus ???
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12079
Yes, they are interesting. They are stars in an especially interesting Quarantine tank-- with a Serpenticobita Octozona, 3 Homaloptera confuzona, one hillstream that we don't even know, and some other hillstreams. They don't actually seem to show any interest in the surface. They'll swim up off the ...
- Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:48 am
- Forum: Freshwater Forum
- Topic: Goby -- Gobioiess serratus ???
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12079
> brackish water As pointed out above, these seem to be euryhaline, and should tolerate fresh as well as salt water. From what I've found about these gobies, they will generally not crawl out of the water even if given the opportunity. As we were releasing them after floating in tupperware, tipping ...
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:06 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Forum
- Topic: Goby -- Gobioiess serratus ???
- Replies: 12
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Yes, I've been googling for a while now, and I just came back here to post that. I'm pretty sure we've got Pseudapocryptes elongatus, Elongate Mudskipper. I found a thread where Frank Greco has not been able to get them past quarantine; they always succumb to a bacterial infection. However these hav...
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:43 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Forum
- Topic: Goby -- Gobioiess serratus ???
- Replies: 12
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A photo of them in the fish store: http://www.lehet.com/bitbucket/IMG_1161.jpg We brought two home. While the light was good, they were still pretty greyed out, so no photos from home yet. That photo above makes them look a little bit more mud-skipper-ish than they are acting here in the Q tank. The...
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:43 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Forum
- Topic: Goby -- Gobioiess serratus ???
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12079
A photo of them in the fish store: http://www.lehet.com/bitbucket/IMG_1161.jpg We brought two home. While the light was good, they were still pretty greyed out, so no photos from home yet. That photo above makes them look a little bit more mud-skipper-ish than they are acting here in the Q tank. The...
- Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:50 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Forum
- Topic: Goby -- Gobioiess serratus ???
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12079
- Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:08 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Forum
- Topic: Goby -- Gobioiess serratus ???
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12079