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by Yak_Forger
Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:25 am
Forum: Freshwater Forum
Topic: Best food for a pictus catfish?
Replies: 3
Views: 21874

Re: Best food for a pictus catfish?

When I got my first loaches, I acclimated them to store-bought food by first giving them finely cut fish or shrimp, and then a mix of fish/shrimp and dried flakes, slowly increasingly the flakes-to-fish ratio. Now I'm giving a 25-75% ratio of food and sometimes only flakes when I don't have much tim...
by Yak_Forger
Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:23 am
Forum: Freshwater Forum
Topic: Freshwater fishes in Japan(4)
Replies: 67
Views: 223954

Re: Freshwater fishes in Japan(4)

The Japanese sure do love their fish - if I'm not mistaken, that's even one of the reasons behind their usual longevity! My favourite Japanese fish fact is that their gutters are so clean that koi carps live in some of them... It would be absolute science fiction both in my native Belgium and in Rus...
by Yak_Forger
Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:20 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Share your Loach Movies!
Replies: 205
Views: 427092

Re: Share your Loach Movies!

I'm always amazed at fish climbing up streams, and one of my biggest loach-related regrets is that I'm not a millionnaire that can afford a small downscale mountain stream for my loaches to play in, I'd spend an exaggerated amount of time watching that :lol: Well, it wouldn't be that bad, since it w...
by Yak_Forger
Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:16 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: A new food
Replies: 7
Views: 11450

Re: A new food

It may be used from time to time as a "novelty" gourmet food, but not as a staple food for loaches. For a regular use, no matter how they like raw beef, it would be better to rely on things that would be more natural for them, seafood being a prime example of that. Sometimes, I either feed them smal...