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Thanks for the replies guys. This forum is better than the others. If I had posted the same thing on *unnamed :wink:* then you would get your head bitten off by about 20 different people saying the same thing :o

Anyway...Yeah I was looking at the liquid tests, everyone seems to say they are a lot ...

Thanks Helen! :)
I have the Elite Mini Filter which has a Venturi Tube and is pumping lots of oxygen into the tank which is blowing through the flowerpot he is in. I have a goldfish in there and he does come out every now and then and does a "sweep" of all the rocks and ornaments sucking on them. I ...

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Yeah I may get another couple. I got one at first cos I really felt sorry for him in that small tank with nothing to do!
Just hope he livens up a bit for his sake, otherwise he'd be a bit bored!
I'll grow some algae, and give him a couple of weeks to settle in and consider buying more ...

Cheers for that!
I will buy some algae wafers and tomorrow im gonna put some pebbles in tank water in the sun :) and grow some!
Is it right for him to be hiding a lot?
In the LFS tank there were no hiding places for him, just a small tank. But he seems to liek hiding in the plat pot which is in ...

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Also, I dont know how to feed him. It is hard to keep food in the plant pot because of the current but I have boiled some cucumber and lodged a little under the rock in the plant pot so hopefully he'll find it.
any advice?

Thanks for that info

Is it normal for them to hide away a lot? Where I bought it from, he was in a tank that had no hiding spaces but now he's got a plant pot with a rock in it and seems to love it and spends a lot of time in there, it has some of the filter flow going in it and air.

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Hey!
Bought myself a little hillstream yesterday, I thought it was a common plec at first :oops:
But found out from Pleco Fanatics it is a Hillstream...what a silly mistake! :oops:
Anyway heres the little guy...
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/7605/dscf2335ru9.jpg

Rescued him from a tiny ...