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Sherry

I have 2 power heads and an outflow from an xp1 running in my 20 gallon cube.. o2 during the day is very high.. plants pearl. at night I assist the tank with an airstone.

do you recommend any hilly over anohter, for a soft water tank, and do you recommend on-line sources for finding them?

love ...

Sherry

I want to try hillies again but my tank gets warm (lights and acrylic tank.) have have a couple of power heads so the water movement is good.
also I have very soft water, 1 kh and I add gh

can any hillies be happy there?

a year ago or so I lost some, but that was because I didn't realize I needed ...

Sherry

Well, it sounds like I'll have to wait to replace my hillstreams untlil I can set up a second tank..

which may require a second best seller because it will require a move to a bigger apartment.

anyone here read Blind Man's Bluff, ? It's about submarines and spies... and even tho it takes place ...

Sherry

Some Girls came out my Junior year I think.. .but no rolling stones song ever really goes OUT. :)

I have had an xp1 and a rio running in the tank, and they did find teh river rocks adn favor them (under some petite nana).

They also liked a flat piece of driftwood that makes a natural cave (top ...

Sherry

Jim it wasn't dirty gravel.. it was mulm left there on purpose for a heavilly planted tank. I keep this tank beautifully. It is my one piece of garden in the big city and it is prized.

I don't know if anything gravel related caused the die off, I have been trying out educated guesses and working to ...

Sherry

another tank isn't an option because I live in a tiny nyc apartment with two very small children and the spare space is taken up by them and theirs.

i can do my best to optimize conditions in my community tank.. I thought I had.. indeed I know I had, the hillstreams were thriving and the ...

Sherry

first loaches are just fine in a planted tank. My neighbor and I both do planted tanks and she has 5 inch clowns in hers, as well as yoyos and kubatias (sp?)

her glosso is a loss, but everything else is fine.

don't use tahitian moon sand. first it will just fall to the bottom eventually since the ...

Sherry

with cannister filter and additional power heads.

Sherry

I have a cannister filter and a power head.... but not jacuzzi levels of movement....

Sherry

I had three hillstream loaches in a community tank.. 78 degrees, who were doing really well for months.

2 of the three used to routinely come off the glass and scrounge for food at feeding time with everyone else. I called them my explora loaches and I loved them

Last week disasater struck.

24 ...

Sherry

I feed teh tank frozen bloodworms a couple of times a week, but there is a lot of competition for them.

I'm thinking, maybe I should do a double dose a couple of days.. make sure there is left over...

I can just be vigilant on water changes to keep gunk down... and maybe with a bit left over, the ...

Sherry

how can we encourage them to make the connection?

Btw.. two loaches off the glass this morning!

Sherry

I have three Beaufortia kweichowensis

now two seem to NEVER leave the glass, even to eat.. I'm assuming they are grazing something, tho I don't have any visible algae.

the third I call my exploraloach. He is all over the substrate and drift wood and rocks.

he gets in there and eats I think

are ...

Sherry

why would they bother hillstreams?

I love my little explora loach.. he wanders areound like a miniature sting ray.

the other two are stuck to the glass.

Sherry

LOL you are the best

so do I adopt some dwarfs or some angelicas next?

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