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Dropped by the lfs again today, and they had baby clown loaches brought in again. This time, they were half of the size of the last ones, almost newborn from what I could tell... I still don't understand why people even catch them to begin with... They never look "alright"... almost sickly. *just th...

Very nice .

Btw, has anyone else noticed these fish slowly being available? I've seen them on Franksaquarium, & on aquabid now. Really interested in acquiring a few.

A few months ago, I bought this baby clown loach for 4 dollars, it ended up dying from fungus (went through and killed almost all of my freshwater fish). But, I was wondering, can they even sell at this size?!? When I got it, a small male guppy was larger than it. It was maybe about an inch long or ...

I usually only use tahitian black moon sand in all of my tanks. Sadly kuhlis and stuff like that don't dig in it for some reason. I've never even gotten spiny eels to dig through it, which is suprising because ones like the peacocks live in the sand like 90 percent of the day.

Yeah, you'd definitely would benefit from testing your tank and trying to find the problem. The reason is because weather loaches are extremely hardy. My cousin has a 5 year old one too that was his first fish and it went through countless ammonia spikes, heater malfunctioning and killing all his fi...

Well, it should co-exist with the clowns. My cousin houses them together with no problem, have seen others doing the same too.

The yo=yos are another story. They're pretty small and the oscar is most likely going to eat them or attack them.

I would leave the oscar out imo.

Kk thx. I've only had a semi-planted tank twice so didn't know much about it. When I first started getting inot plants they were fine and growing like crazy. Once I started to heavily plant the tank they all started to die, I was thinking co2 was lacking or something. Ah well, osrry about all the du...

As all know hillstream loaches require high oxygen levels and plants need carbon dioxide to survive.

So how do you all make the two work? I'm sure there is a very simple solution but i'm a little stumped at the moment lol.

Ok, thx. I know I'm getting alittle overboard here yes but I;m not going to get all fo them at once. I just wanted to know if I could get them and where.

My way to get rid of algae :

big water change and the mighty otto! lol

VERY NICE!

You sure do have A LOT of plants in the first pic lol.

Ok, as you can tell from my old post I wanted to get some hillstreams. Well I think I may do a 30 gallon. I'm going to set it up like martin's or all the other hillstream enthusiasts tanks. But I don't JUST want hillstreams. I want some other loaches (been getting into them lately. So does anyone kn...

Thanks martin, appreciate it lol. Don't worry i'll have some more questions soon lol. Before I read your article I remember seeing different kinds and wondering " Is hillstream loach the name for just one or is it like a category?" Well now I know lol. I know all too well what you mean about the man...

I live in nekoosa, wisconsin. So yeah hard to find anything here lol. Thx for the help! This is probably the speediest and well thought out answers I have ever recieved! Sounds kind of corny if you ask me but honestly it is. On most forums I have to wait a day for some half gone through response lol...

Hi, new to the forums. I was just wondering..do you know of any site selling certain types of hillstreams or does anyone have some for sale? If so I would greatly appreciate if you'd tell me lol. If there yours can you tell me a basic price guideline? I'm not buying them right now but I have been lo...