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Here's a pic of them.... they have settled in amazingly well - colour changes from this light form to the more classical pattern ....

Metronidazole is a pretty standard item in my "Fish medication cupboard".... Standard course of treatment is 7mg/liter... 50% waterchange after 3 days,dose repeated with another 50% water change after 3 days... We cant get Levimisole in South Africa - Metro works REAL well with "Skinny Botia disseas...

I came across some Sicyopterus (Mountain Rock Goby) at my local LFS this week - been pestering them for months now to try and get me some more Stiphodons.... Heiko Bleher confirmed my suspicions that they are S.lagocehalus... Bought 6 and they are Very happy in my 20Gallon reophile system - Only pro...

But they do share a lot in common with htose pics of the Baby Sewelias....lol - now Im all confused....

Will try to post a better pic if I can get one Jim,but these little guys have small fins just like the A.elongata and are real thin viewed head on....also not flattened off dorsiventrally at all....Hmmmnnn?

her are some pics of the tank before the plants just took over and too pics of the one baby(Sorry - was shaking with excitement and shooting in super macro)... as for how many there are actualy in there - your guess is as good as mine....lol http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb329/NinjaGimp/DSCF52...

I set up a high flow river aquarium ostensiby for keeping Hillstream loaches about 4 months ago... At the LFS I worked at after a lot of string pulling and convincing the owner,we got a batch of 50 of them in... Settled in and fully quarentined,three tiny little 1 inch Squirrel loaches became the fi...

It's a baby Aurilius/Fillament barb.... Seems like to me...