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Hi, yes ist seems, that the age is important. My older Yunnanilus (> 1,5 years) are shy, the younger ones (beetween 3 and 6 months) do it the same way you told. They are very activ and it seems they clean somtimes the other fishes. (Always in the near of the eye) but not in a aggressive way. Great l...

Hi Dave, i have 25 Yunnanilus cruciatus with 12 sids in a 112 Litre Tank. There is no problem. The Yunnanilus in this tank are not shy. The parents of the Yunnanilus in the 45 Litre tank a very shy. They live alone there. Sometimes I have an extra flow pump in the tank with the Yunnanilus and the si...

Hi Haakon, Congratulations for your success. I'm almost tempted to call breeding these loaches a simple task Yes, i think so too, if the fishes are in a good condition, there are no great problems to make them spawn. I think the water parameters are not so important. Some fresh water and they will d...

Hi, here ist just a little update of the young Yunnanilus: http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z119/yeti1963/Yun1.jpg Some of the younger ones with the "fat mama". The parents had spawn one more time, but there are no new young baby. I cleaned the tank yesterday complete, so I hope next time there ar...

piggy4 wrote:Absolutely wonderful ,those pics of the young at different stages are great b t w Fluethke have you bred any of the other Loaches ?

Hi,

no never. Actually is it my first loach. But I think it is not my last loach.

Hi Haakon,

great tank for the Yunnanilus. You have to wait and you will see nothing. In 7-10 days maybe you see one small fish. Then, one week later you will see a lot of fishes.

Feed early artemia.

My Yunnanilus eat the eggs, but not all. Maybe the shrimps in your tank are a problem.

Hi Graeme,

no problem, it's a pleasure to me.

But here are most of the pics and the story on a german website, the BSSW is a international organisation of a small group of fishholders.
http://ig-bssw.org/?p=1119

But of course you can use the pictures for the main site.

Hi, my name is Frank. I come from Germany. For that, sorry for my lousy english. I have 6 of the Y.cruciatus since 10/2008. They had spawned at the end of March two times. The fishes are in a 45 litre Tank. There are now about 20 young fishes. Here are some pics: (I have to clean the glass of the ta...