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wasserscheu wrote:I visited a friend, who has very recently bought a group of mature clowns. Her clowns were put in her tank a day before I took the following pictures for her, so that's why they are still in faint color. Her largest one, surely measures over 9" TL.

Nice big old loach!

What medicine are you using ?

I have not used the specific sand you mention but I have used fine aquarium sand and it was not good. Blew all over the place. I found that with even a very light current it would still move. Even with everything switch off, vacuming was really difficult and would coat all the plants etc with "dust"...

Love the Kub pics, just great how their patterns shrink to almost no pattern at all. Wonderful!

I have found the blue string lights that can be purchased at Home Depot work great. They are cheap, last nicely and are water proof and you can cut them to size. Price is around $15 for 9 feet!

The video is very cool, looks like he is eating a "hotdog" rather than a blood worm He is tiny!

Exactly, Just have to post a pic of this.

I agree with everything above, observe very carefully for as long as possible. Then before you get them home be prepared for an ICH breakout. Ie Stock up on your Rid Ich, have a strategy of what you would do if you get a breakout. Preparation is half the breakout. If it breaks out and you are unprep...

General feeling is an absolute minimum of a group is 3. I personally think 5 is a better minimum. They are very social fish, always together, they lie on top of each other when sleeping. They dance around the tank in groups, hence the more the better. Kubotia are smaller than YoYo's hence if you wer...

They are a relatively new species to be kept in Aquariums and hence a lot of the data is still not written in stone. Loaches online suggests 24c to 28c. http://www.loaches.com/species-index/botia-kubotai I live in Rio and my tank is 30c (86f) most of the year, even a little hotter in Summer, they do...

I am not sure where you are from but yes they are easy enough to come by. I just love the golden color with the black. As they get older the black markings grow until it almost covers their whole body. I have friends with Yoyos and Kubotais are in my opinion just a more special fish. Very social fis...

You could try Kubotais. They are slightly smaller than Yoyos, less boistous and in my opinion so much more colorful.

Here is one of my guys.

I don't know much about discus other than they like warm water temps 30c +, Just out of interest why are clowns ruled out as in compatible with Discus? In Rio it is not uncommon to see them together. I have clowns and Kubotais together with 6 glass shrimp, I have lost 2 shrimp in 3 months, but I don...

I don't think 9w would do it either, I really wanted a 13w for my 65g but they didn't have one when I was in Miami and buying anything like that is not really practical in Rio due to high import tax - think $500 for a UV filter!. 13w for a 125g would possibly work but it would be a "better than noth...

+1 from me on the 75gs, love the clean design. I am jealous, I want another tank now

I also have rainbows in my 65g and haven't lost any yet, also found them very easy trouble free fish that are non agressvive. Really nice fish.