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Can't over-recommend any Geophagus.

Is that a peacock bass in there in the seventh picture? I think he might end up eating everything else in the tank.

I know you are not going to like this. I have never tried it. Product Detail Background Seafood is abundant in ... Botia loach fish has tough flesh. The company, therefore, grilsl and seasons it. Then, the fish was ground to make it easy to eat. Manufacturing Procedures Select fresh fish. Slice fish...

Thanks Yellowfinned, those pics are of the fish i've been trying to describe ! note the dorsal ,its the same colour as the body , wheras in Modesta the dorsal is the same colour as the tail ! Yellow finned are these the ones you caught in your local canal ? Yup. i m o, these are a nice sp/ to keep ...

Very lively, jump, crawl through opening. Difficult to make tank loachproof for these. Vivid orange fins and two black dots by tail. The smaller fish have stripes similar to tigers, but these definitely are not tigers. This does not really come out in the photos, but you can see this more in the las...

Have to jump in with one of Yellow Fin's yellow fins.

Very shy.




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There are many people on this forum that say that loaches can be kept with shrimp of various types. I would disagree, I feed ghost shrimp to my loaches, and all of them dig in. I think pretty much any loach if hungry would attempt any shrimp smaller than itself.

Those are great photos of fat sids.

How quickly, or slowly do sids grow? I have had my juvi sids for about three months now, and I cannot see that they have grown.

..do you know what the bottom of the canal look light? Are there aquatic plants or is it all sand & rocks? The water is pretty murky down there. The canal is a large artery diverting water originating from the river systems at Ayuttaya away from the Chao Praya and around Bangkok. The water is silte...

Just in from the canal, including the world famous - possibly - yellow finned loaches. http://fishpondflats.com/lpics/k10.1.jpg http://fishpondflats.com/lpics/k10.3.jpg http://fishpondflats.com/lpics/k10.2.jpg http://fishpondflats.com/lpics/k10.9.jpg http://fishpondflats.com/lpics/k10.10.jpg http://...

I mix loaches with new world cichlids and they all seem to get on well. I would be careful about mixing small loaches with large aggressive cichlids, but it is not difficult. Many of the larger laoches can easily outrun and do circles round a cichlid. If you want a peaceful and beautiful cichlid, I ...

shari2 wrote:Those are the credits for the pics within the article, I believe.

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The article is interesting and useful. Where are the pictures at the bottom?

I am not sure you should try to get loaches out of their hidey holes. They like them. And you do not have to clean your tank all that often, you just upset the fish.

Vancmann wrote:Why Loaches Shadow.
... loaches will have to swim to resist being washed down stream ... do this for two reasons:
1. To stay together as a group ...
2. To expend less energy fighting the resistance ...

Well thank you Vanc. This is a good explanation.