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Here is a little different and more aggressive action with my hillstreams. Plus a lot of fry and youngsters of different sizes will swim by. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ6gATVpuiY It looks like breeding is roughly every 3 weeks, with 10-15 fry surviving. The 30 gallon tank right now has at least...

I am pretty new to loaches, but with other fish it is nearly always the males that do the fighting/sparring. Why would females fight?

This head butting/mouth pushing/fighting lasted almost 2 hours. First video is the beginning of the battles. A larger fry shows up on the back glass. The second video is the end of the battle. In the middle of the video 2 fry can be seen under some anubias between 2 rocks, and the larger fry is stil...

Hi Jim Powers, My growing loach addiction is all your fault. Not until you came and did your loach talk to the Atlanta club did I get infected. I now have 5 kinds of loaches and hopes that these Sewellia fry are just the beginning. Now I want spawnings from my sids, and my polka dots, and the redtai...

I have found 2 sets of fry in with my dozen adult Sewellia. At most I have seen 2 really small (1/2") and 3 fry the size in this video. No idea how many are really in the tank. Why this guy came out and showed off is beyond me. Normally as soon as I get the camera out they dive into the rocks and pl...

I have been badly bitten by the loach bug. I have a dozen Sewellia lineolata in a 30 gallon river tank with a small power head. I have been feeding these fish all kinds of foods. So far, these are their favorites in order. Ocean Nutrition Formula 1 pellets, Xtreme Cichlid pellets, nice fresh white w...