Loaches Online Forum

so sids or kubotai? i have both and find them both to be interesting. you are going to have a group of them, right? i've lost two sids..one early on for i don't know what reason and i had one recently jump to a place that i thought would not be possible to get to and so it perished as well. the lone ...

oops.. sorry. misunderstanding. I only plan to have
Consistency is more important, I agree... and I do nothing to change my ph in my tanks, it is just because of the wood I have in there that it happens naturally and stays that way.

you are fortunate to have nice lower pH water...even with tons ...

Forgot to mention - quickly - that water out of my tap is a bit high, but in my 125 gal - the pH stays around 7.2 and is medium hardness. If I am forgetting anything else - just ask! :D

well my loaches have been in tanks where the pH is 7.8...for several years now but it's consistent. i once ...

what i was saying was merely what i recall others saying a few years ago when i was posting here regularly.

also the same about the skunk(s). what i CAN say i experienced and i still don't know the reason was that my striatas and kubotai seemed to show aggression towards each other. this was when ...

i think skunks are a bit aggressive. i have sids and kubotai together with clowns in a larger tank and they do fine. the temps you suggest may be a bit on the cool side for them although in winter my tanks get down to maybe 78F but i think others generally recommend a bit higher like 80-82F. the ...

cryptic? moi? nah that's just YOUR interpretation. : ) don't you just wonder sometimes how what you write is read by others? i sure do as i've often been startled by responses and what seem to me to be WAY OFF interpretations others make of words i write. i don't think i've ever said anything in ...

We got used to waiting for this book. Last year at about this time, the new (replacement) editor at TFH announced that it would be going into production in the spring. Our hopes were up! Then it just seemed like ages before Martin and I got to see the first pages. That's the term for the first set ...

Mark in Vancouver wrote:Patience is a virtue.

usually.

Martin got his yesterday.

and he's in toronto...monday at the earliest for mark then. : ) sheesh this is addicting. every time i walk towards the door i hear a message has come in...and back to the computer. and another....THIS is why i don't drop in...nothing else can get done! and, actually, i ...

There's some cruel irony in the fact that my books never showed up... Still, I've got my advance copy. But after all that fuss from Jim!! Four years of begging people to be patient!

Alas, it'll be Monday, no doubt.

has martin gotten his? i'm guessing it has to do with customs...not the content ...

ooops i didn't notice you'd not mentioned robin. did i mention everyone? there ARE too many of us to keep track of. i guess i just supplied her name when i read your post....she was FIRST in and the standard the rest of us had to try to meet. i remember how impressed you were with her draft ...

glad to know my senility has not waned. i just checked and see i misrembered the start time of 6 EST...it's been 5 in MY mind all week. well another half hour...i don't think i'll be around...maybe it's good that i remain disappeared for another week or so....i have electricity up in our new house ...

i know what stickies ARE...i was wondering about WHY there...what's THAT about. lol...clear as always, eh?

glad to know my senility has not waned. i just checked and see i misrembered the start time of 6 EST...it's been 5 in MY mind all week. well another half hour...i don't think i'll be around...maybe it's good that i remain disappeared for another week or so....i have electricity up in our new house ...

shari to the rescue (thank you!)....a sticky? sheesh. what's THAT about?