Loaches Online Forum

It seems to be fairly easy to get botiine loaches ready to spawn - decent conditions and good food lead to very, very egg-laden females with massive protruding bellies. I currently have hugely pregnant Zebras, Sids, Histrionica and Kubotai. The problem is getting them to do anything with those eggs....

I have 4 of these in a 4x2x2, along with Clowns and Kubotai, Ancistrus and various killifish. My males have a very strong red base colouration and a blocky forehead, whereas the females are more blueish and streamlined. They compete very successfully with the loaches for Grindals, bloodworm, flake a...

Thanks guys, I'll chase those options up and report back if I have any luck.

Cheers,
Adrian

Anyone know of any sources of Homaloptera (any species) in the UK at the moment? I've managed to get sucker-bodied hillstreams (Sewelia lineata, and some beautiful little loaches that were claimed to be Beaufortia kweichowensis but I suspect are something else), and they are doing very nicely in my ...

Very cool Jonas, does he take the food to the hole one piece at a time, or does he stash several bits of food and go back to eat it all later?

Cheers,
Adrian