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They don't meet any other loaches in nature. On Borneo one can find Pangio, no further loaces, but Pangio prefer other circumstances. Whether they can be combined with otrher loaches? I wonder. After al, they can be agressive amongst themselves, and they are the largest of the Botinae we normally ca...

Unless we are speaking about very small fishes (newly hatched, 3 mm or so), Hydra are harmless and will only steal a little food. Therefore I would do nothing.

I have heard Trichomopodus sumatranus (new genusname, hope I got it right) eat Hydra, but most likely this fish does not fit in your tank.

I did not go into the root tablets as I have never used them.

But if you bury them deeply, they will have far less effect on the fish than if shallowly buried.

Firstly, 2 is always a bad number, as 2 implies 1 stronger than te other. 3 is better but 4 or more is much better I can´t tell you how fast they are growing, but whether the plants are damaged by them? You could make zo nes with only sand, and others with pebbles, places the loaches will not like t...

Stunning? I think it is by far the most ugly clown I´ve ever seen. I would not even want it for free.

While we want to heve an unidirectional flow in a rivertank, remember that in a real river the flow is not really inidirectional. Every rock, tree or curve the river itself makes will cause turbulence in the water.

Riverine fish can cope with that.

Hardly

Their name, anguilaris refers to the common European eel, and this species does reflect them a bit. Smaller in all measures, and therefore not plump at all.

I would, tentatively, assume there could very well be eggs.

The bellyshape looks that way - fat would result in a round belly, not this edged one. Further, if one fish is overfed, why would the others not be a little over? Assumng eggs would answer this question nicely.

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Fri Jun 12, 2020 2:07 pm

Of course it's not allowed to take them from the wild, but if they were breeded you can keep them here in germany.

In many cases, I like the German system better than our own. This is a good example. Have luck with them.

I'm surprized you can keep them in Germany. It is illegal in NL

Perhaps a group of 5 could suffice, but I would cetaily get 3 more - in case 1 of them would die, where could you get a replacement? Bettter save than sorry with 1 or 2 more then the absolute minimum. I think 30 gallons - US gallons, of 3,8 liters, that is 114 liters, could be enough, but there is l...

I am quite fanatic about cichlids, and I love Geophagus.

But the change of breeding Botia would make me device traps for catching Geophagus without disturbing the Botias. Anytime

That's a big one, and I would not say she is fat - apart from the belly she still looks slim. To me it is eithe bloat or eggs. And as you wrote she is active, eating a lot, it must be eggs. Now the thing is - are the others, presumably males, also very active? You might be looking at an attempt to b...

There are a lot of good reasons why one wuld prefer to have a large group. I can only think of three why one would prefer small ones. The first is the money involved. Obviously sometimes fish are just too expensive to get a lot of them The second is the size they will reach. I think a large school o...

Swordtails are fish from the current. They originate from Mexico, where the water is hard, and clear. Further the males are rather territorial, you either keep 1, or 4 or more. The number of females is not that important, 5 or 6 males is a good combination with 4 females or with 10. I would assume y...