Loaches Online Forum

http://www.thekrib.com/Filters/sponge.html
The first post on there is about making your own sponges.

These are one of my favorites: http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/cichlid/nicarag.php That picture does not do them justice, they are quite gorgeous when mature (not much to look at when young though). And they are fairly peaceful, but will hold their own if needed. Their face turns blue, very pr...

Last year I got a bunch of young kubotai, an inch maybe less. They were in their juvenile form. They are still not completely fully grown, but most are in their adult patterns, although I wouldn't be surprised to see them still change more. I have one adult that I bought about 2? years ago that was ...

I have mine (6 or 7) in with angelfish, harlequin rasboras, pearl gouramis, siamese algae eaters, otocinlus arnoldi, A. thomasi, characodon lateralis, peckolita species. I have also had them live with marbeled hatchet fish, beckford's pencil fish, corydorus catfish, apistogrammas, "golden wonder" ki...

Very nice tank! Love the wood layout.

Martin Thoene wrote:Yes, aren't kubotai little devils to photograph?

Your tanks look lovely. I so much prefer naturalistic looking aquariums.

Martin.

Yes, I don't think I have ever gotten a decent picture of a kubotai, all you see is a blur. Thanks for the compliment on my tanks:)

Here is (hopefully) my 60 gallon when I first set it up. It is much more heavily planted now. This is the tank the kubotai live in. http://www.aquariphiles.com/_files/icon.php?id=34&w=200&h=200 The 2 gallon Killi tank (recently redesigned): http://www.aquariphiles.com/melgrj7/files/16/90/K-tankclose...

I like to take good care of my animals. It makes me happy:) I am going thin my tank though i think. The pearl gourmis are going to go and I think my thomasi might have to go too, this group is way more aggressive than ones I have had in the past. I caught one chasing one of my loaches around the tan...

Hi Melissa - welcome to Loaches Online. :D Thank you for such an interesting and detailed first post. 8) What sort of temperatures do you experience in the winter? I would be concerned for the B. kubotai being kept outdoors if the temp drops out of their preferred range, or if there is a large fluc...

Yeah, I've been lurking for a very long time haha. My tank has an odd mix. Being in a one bedroom apartment is very limiting:( I have very little will power when it comes to fish and now that I do not have 300+ tanks to play with its even harder! I will post some pictures soon. Warning, I only have ...

Hello, my name is Melissa. I have been reading here on and off for the past few years. I finally decided to join up. I live in the USA in Rochester, NY. I currently have a 60 gallon tank and the loach inhabitants are 6 or 7 botia kubotai (its hard to count them as the tank is very heavily planted). ...