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I would certainly want to have twice their thickness

In matters like this, it is always best to know about your fishes.

It won´t hellp much to know how to keep a loach from sri lanks if yours are from near Hongkong for instance.

Not all of Burma is year round warm, I have for instance Petruichthys brevis, Danio kyathit and Celestichthys choprae from this country, and they all come from far inland, and higher in the mountains. The same goes for Micronemacheilus cruciatus and Tanichthys micagemmae from Vietnam. Seriously fish...

To me, the problem lies in the first quote: In the aquarium they should be kept at a steady sub-tropical temperature There are no sub-tropical areas on the world where the temperature is steady year-round. There are, however, areas in the tropics where the temperature is, year round, a bit lowered b...

Rasbora borapetensis turns out to be quite good

I can only agree

I got 1 tank painted light - unfortunately. All the others (40) are painted black on 3 sides.

But do remember, paint the outside.

To me "golden zebra loaches" are botia histrionica, not yoyos (b. almorae). That's the problem with common names such as "golden zebra loach". What could this be? I am Dutch, not a native speaker of English, and I have not a clue what species is involved. On one hand this does nopt matter indeed, a...

What I think is going on is that the loach really, really disliked the gravel you had. It disliked it so much that is went into what we would call a depression in a human. It could also be that the gravel hurt it and being hurt it went inactive Now the gravel is gone, the natural behaviour returns. ...

You imply this wheatherloach cannot be Misgurnus fossilis, as that species is banned

Following that view, you are right not to put the alternative species in a pond

This year the temperatures are very low. Normally I´d say go and have fun, especially if you transpoort the fish arond 15 hrs (water is warmest then). But this year you might better wait until June A problem is, wheather loaches are not native in the UK, but they could survive there. Therefore posse...

I think both options are good ones, however, if it were my tank, I wouold try to change the titteya for a local alternative. But, that is just my taste, not a real comment.

On a Dutch forum, which does not exist anymore, a member once calculated the effects of bubbles. These do cause movement on the surface, but the thing is, they have gone com 20 or 30 cm through the tank before reaching the surface. Going through the tank, they do give oxygen to the water, and in fac...

The thing is, clowns can grow to a foot. Now an active fish like a clown would most certainly need space to swim in, and I would never keep such a large, active fish in anyshing smaller than an 8 feet * 3 feet footprinted tank. I don´t know how much gallon that is, but if 2 feet high, this is 1296 l...

Gobies are related to perch, while loaches are related to barbs. That is, they are way different fish But, in some places they arte found together. And in case fish live together in nature, and do not prey on each other, most often thay make ideal tankmates. Problem is, both of gobies and loaches no...

Where are you based?

I know how to get Yashuikotakia in the Netherlands, and would be able to get them elsewhere in Europe, but chnaces are you live elsewhere.