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I felt like experimenting a bit and added another internal filter. The male and female are out a lot more now. Currently running: AquaClear 50 (200 GPH) Aquatop IF-450 w/ Venturi (119 GPH) Jebo AP2100F2 w/ Venturi (400 GPH) Rena Air 200 on high The male seems to hang in the airstone's bubble stream ...

I noticed that my male has thin strings coming off of its fins. Is it slime? It looks like what happened to the last male that died when I fished him out. The strings are pale yellow, coming from its fins. No longer than 3-4mm and very thin. Should I be worried? :( The girl seems okay. She's always ...

How large are your Gastromyzon compared to them? Mine are 1/3 their size and the Sewellia don't seem to mind sharing their hiding spaces with them.

Thank you for the IDs, Menu! I got the G. scitulus two days ago and it seems like he's starved a little from the shop. Hopefully he fattens up like my other Gastros quickly. If not, then he might be a boy and all the plump ones are girls! Who knows. :P A few more questions for anyone who might know ...

Pictures! Slideshow: http://deinakun.imgur.com/loaches_81211#sRnav I'm hoping one is a male and one's a female! :) Loach #1: http://i.imgur.com/sRnavl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fiuhCl.jpg Loach #2: http://i.imgur.com/NjXVUl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/S7Yudl.jpg Size difference between largest Gastromyzon: ...

Thanks for all the replies! My Sewellia are actually around 2.5". It looks like the female is 2.5" and the male is a little smaller than her. Are females usually smaller? After my boyfriend sexed them, it seems that the female is the larger one compared to the male. The Sewellia were still hiding in...

I came back home today and the smallest male (which was probably a 1mm smaller than the larger one) was dead in front of the flower pot my male krib hid in. :( It already had a small injury when I got it from the store, but I guess that was expected. I found the remaining male and female hiding in a...

Ah, that's good news. I thought they were stressing out from the move since the LFS got them today and I must have gotten them an hour or so after they put them into their tanks. I thought they would acclimate well like my Gastromyzon, but I never added more than 2 Gastros at once. My Gastros would ...

I bought 3 Sewellia lineolata today and acclimated them, but they seem to be swimming frantically around the tank. They've been circling it and chasing each other around for the past 10 minutes. Is this normal behavior for them when they are trying to get used to a new environment? My tank is a 20ga...

Hello, I have four Gastromyzon hillstream loaches and was wondering if someone could help confirm the sexes of my loaches? Both loaches are about the same size (1.25") and are speckled with large yellow spots. Loach #1, Gladstone: http://imgur.com/a/lkQda#WQZFg http://i.imgur.com/WQZFgl.jpg The firs...