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by turtleguy146
Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:33 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Planning a river tank.....
Replies: 5
Views: 9148

SAE's love currents. They are active and happy in just about any environment, but they really enjoy a strong flow. My larger ones like to sit on a rock about three inches directly in front of a 450 gph powerhead returns. It is impressive.
River and stream gobies like it too. I had a stiphodon ...
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by turtleguy146
Sat Apr 17, 2010 10:54 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Intro and Problem
Replies: 15
Views: 22195

!!!!! And i thought I got into it fast!! I am at like one and a half years and only have 4 tanks. 45, 40, 20 and 5 1/2.

I understand the feeling about warning signs. I have pet store owners calling my cell when they get in new, unusual, or small loaches and gobies. One friend of mine waits to ...
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by turtleguy146
Sun Apr 04, 2010 7:34 pm
Forum: Freshwater Forum
Topic: Native shrimp of central China
Replies: 7
Views: 12182

Cool! I wish there were similar shrimp in Georgia creeks. We have several varieties of crayfish but they don't get along well with most small fish.
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by turtleguy146
Sun Apr 04, 2010 7:31 pm
Forum: Freshwater Forum
Topic: Native fish of China------paradise fish
Replies: 4
Views: 78854

Did you capture these near your home too? THey are beautiful
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by turtleguy146
Sun Apr 04, 2010 7:29 pm
Forum: Freshwater Forum
Topic: Native fish of China-----Goby
Replies: 4
Views: 12452

Very cool fish.
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by turtleguy146
Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:03 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: Coydoras
Replies: 3
Views: 7742

He could easily be doing it more often than I know of. There are plenty of days when the only times I get to watch my fish are when I am feeding them or turning on and off the lights.
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by turtleguy146
Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:00 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: Coydoras
Replies: 3
Views: 7742

I have seen him do it once when he was not eating. Once he regains consciousness he always jerks around. It is very strange.
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by turtleguy146
Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:30 pm
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: Coydoras
Replies: 3
Views: 7742

Coydoras

Hello everyone, I have several coys, and about a month ago i noticed that one of the younger ones had lost its barbels. I at first thought it must have been the result of a fight, but a few days later i noticed some trailing, loose skin around the edges of his mouth and it looked like his mouth was ...
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by turtleguy146
Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:29 pm
Forum: Freshwater Forum
Topic: tankmates for betta?
Replies: 2
Views: 7321

I have successfully kept a betta with a cory and some neon tetras; however, you may have a hard time at this point. From my experience, once a betta(i am assuming you have a male) has been in a tank alone for a while, he becomes very territorial. My betta lived peacefully with some neon tetras and a ...
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by turtleguy146
Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:58 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: A River Tank
Replies: 26
Views: 28707

I had a hard time with over-heating while i was cycling my tank. At one point the water in the tank was about seven degrees warmer than room temp. I have a canister filter, and I just raised the flow bar a few inches above the water and turned it so the water spent as much time in the air as ...
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by turtleguy146
Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:09 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Two dojo hanging out and an innocent cory
Replies: 5
Views: 8849

That is one round cory!
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by turtleguy146
Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:52 pm
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: First timer here, possible poorly Weatherfish/Dojo Loach...
Replies: 17
Views: 32052

Most large, chain-pet stores will check your water for free. I have managed to keep fish for about a decade without buying a testing kit... It gets a little rude during cycling though. I have gotten to know most of the people at the stores I frequently visit, and I always find something small that i ...
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by turtleguy146
Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:38 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Freshwater Amphipods
Replies: 4
Views: 8000

I have recently been compiling materials with the intent to breed daphnia. I have no experience, but I have found this website to be very helpful. (http://www.aquaculturestore.com/info/daphnia.html ) It is actually a very interesting company. I am thinking about some of their darters and maybe some ...
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by turtleguy146
Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:03 pm
Forum: Freshwater Forum
Topic: Assassin snails
Replies: 7
Views: 14890

I put two assassins in my 20 gallon about nine months ago because i had hundreds of pond snails and more every day. There are probably 20 small pond snails left. I don't know about MTS, but the pair has very effectively kept down the pond snails. They eat all of the young, and any that get old and ...
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by turtleguy146
Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:40 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Violent Hillstreams?
Replies: 3
Views: 6899

Violent Hillstreams?

My river tank has been setup for a few weeks and yesterday I introduced the last of the fish i intend to keep in the tank: Two fat, old, greedy
Siamensis Algae eaters. I could never have imagined a conflict between the hillsteams and the siamensis since the loaches hide in caves and the algae eaters ...