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by NancyD
Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:07 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Is this Gastromyzon zebrinus?
Replies: 3
Views: 5807

Re: Is this Gastromyzon zebrinus?

I had ctenos & they didn't look like your fish. I'm not good at hillstream IDs but I'd say yours could be zebrinus. Hopefully someone more knowlegeable will help. You might post on facebook loachfanatics. It takes a while to be approved...
by NancyD
Wed Jan 05, 2022 8:17 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Merry Christmas - Loaches Online style!
Replies: 8
Views: 7774

Re: Merry Christmas - Loaches Online style!

MTS, I belong to a plant club so now every tank has at least some. I keep a sponge over the filters' intakes to catch the big debris. I clean them every week or so during water changes or if filter return flow slows. When I had hard water java ferns grew like crazy. I used to give away a plastic gro...
by NancyD
Tue Jan 04, 2022 9:26 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: clown loach compatibility with angelfish, zebra loaches, yoyo and pleco
Replies: 15
Views: 15085

Re: clown loach compatibility with angelfish, zebra loaches, yoyo and pleco

I haven't kept yoyos but suspect they might bother the angel long fins more than clowns or striatas. Because most loaches are crepuscular (dawn & dusk active) they may bother the angels. I had smallish (3-4 inch?) clowns with angels for a short time. The angels would thrash around when the loaches z...
by NancyD
Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:55 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Clown Loaches now 28 years old
Replies: 3
Views: 5259

Re: Clown Loaches now 28 years old

Happy new year to you & your clowns "birthday". I guess it's like race horses, all are "born" at the first of the year. Congrats! It's always nice to see your annual updated pics.
by NancyD
Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:52 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Merry Christmas - Loaches Online style!
Replies: 8
Views: 7774

Re: Merry Christmas - Loaches Online style!

Very nice new logs, congrats! I have a couple suggestions for you, I hope you'll take in a nice way, that's how I mean them. You might try having a bit more angling to your caves layout instead of all in a line along the back. Another idea is to try java fern &/or anubias real live plants attached t...
by NancyD
Wed Dec 29, 2021 7:45 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Merry Christmas - Loaches Online style!
Replies: 8
Views: 7774

Re: Merry Christmas - Loaches Online style!

Happy New Year! Did you go back & get your hidden treasure MTS?
by NancyD
Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:16 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Dwarf chain loach catastrophe, and a valuable lesson about quarantine tanks learned
Replies: 2
Views: 5345

Re: Dwarf chain loach catastrophe, and a valuable lesson about quarantine tanks learned

I'm sorry you learned the hard way of the value of QT. It sounds like you had 2 issues: ich (white spot, fairly treatable for the most part) & "skinny" disease (that can be many things) or internal parasites (I'd treat with flubendazole or Levamisole). All are more easily treated in a smaller quaran...
by NancyD
Sun Nov 07, 2021 9:19 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Burmese loach and gold zebra loach differences
Replies: 2
Views: 3714

Re: Burmese loach and gold zebra loach differences

As you've seen it can be very hard to tell several species apart when they're small. & often now they're in mixed groups from what I've seen (pre-covid). Using "common" names, small loaches can be similar until about 2 inches. B. kubotai (Burmese Border) usually have wider dark vertical bars & a hin...
by NancyD
Mon Aug 09, 2021 1:06 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: "Suddenly" Aggressive Golden Zebra Loach...Help Please
Replies: 6
Views: 16187

Re: "Suddenly" Aggressive Golden Zebra Loach...Help Please

Yes, I don't like common names either, Bas. When I searched "golden zebra loach", another loach genus came up, a sinibotia. There are zebra loaches, (b.striata) too. Clown loaches most of us know, but also royal clowns (a leptobotia species), not related or common... Especially in an international f...
by NancyD
Sat Aug 07, 2021 9:52 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: "Suddenly" Aggressive Golden Zebra Loach...Help Please
Replies: 6
Views: 16187

Re: "Suddenly" Aggressive Golden Zebra Loach...Help Please

To me "golden zebra loaches" are botia histrionica, not yoyos (b. almorae). No matter, I think Bas Pels has it right. It's lonely & aggressive because of that. It wants same species "friends" & will try to get other fish to fill that need & acts aggressive when they don'y respond in the right "loach...
by NancyD
Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:24 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: FREQUENTLY ASKED Questions About Hunting Boots
Replies: 0
Views: 83165

Re: Black Kuhli Loach changing color

That doesn't sound good. What are your water test parameters (ammonia, nitrite & nitrate for starters)? You might try doing more +/or larger water changes, that's always my first go to treatment. Not hard in a 10g. Does the color-changer pangio eat well? Any sores or red gills?

Pics?
by NancyD
Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:26 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Help for confirm sexing of sewellia sp. spotted
Replies: 3
Views: 8382

Re: Help for confirm sexing of sewellia sp. spotted

They look like a male & female to me too, good luck! Mine breed every year & a couple fry survive. So fun even in a community tank.
by NancyD
Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:27 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Vaillantella maassi Mystery
Replies: 3
Views: 6396

Re: Vaillantella maassi Mystery

The V. maassii didn't seem to hurt their biting "victims" much except the "extra" male eventually. No pangios were damaged, but they learned to stay away from the fork tails territory...but maybe hillstreams were easier prey? Did you move decor to the other tank? That truly is a mystery...or a ghost...
by NancyD
Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:04 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Vaillantella maassi Mystery
Replies: 3
Views: 6396

Re: Vaillantella maassi Mystery

Pretty cool Katy! Are the tanks close enough for a jump? Or did I misunderstand? In MA I had 4 v. maassii in a 40g long with 2 pangio species. The "extra" smaller male didn't live for more than a year or so. I wondered if it might have been a similar but different species, I think there are a couple...
by NancyD
Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:48 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Lone Rostrata in with Kubs
Replies: 11
Views: 12398

Re: Lone Rostrata in with Kubs

Sorry no pics, wrong hobby. But you're not missing much, each tank has different algae, 2 have tons duck weed, jungle val & java moss. I set the low bar for my plant club, lol. I got my T. taeniatus from the Wet Spot on a driving vacation packed like for shipping :). They don't seem to have all the ...