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thanks for sharing your success stories, HaakonH and Frank. its always good to read about people mananging to breed their fish. Well done :D please dont worry about your english Frank. there are severl people who post here regualrly whose 1st language isnt english, and we have several German members...

i would say all my striata are definately brown and yellow, edging towrds darker brown than blue-brown

looking good

have you hada look at the species index for the clown loach info?

http://www.loaches.com/species-index/cl ... cracanthus

chelms166 is right, clown loaches do need a very big tank

i find my striata well behaved and certainly very cute. they can be a bit on the shy side, although saying that, my largest one is boss of the tank, so that can also be quite bold, but not normaly nasty. you will have fun withthem. they dont seem to have the reputation that the clowns do of ripping ...

this is all sounding good

brilliant

they are amazing! i love the yellow fin colour, and the patterns. i need a hillstream tank.

we shall have to get practising for how to best represent these in our photo gallery

great news

S........

i am so sorry to hear you bad news. thats terrible!

wow, amazing, thanks for showing us

lovely fish

calm down there! thats quite a dramtic change in pH. yes, loaches do really need slightly acidic water rather than too alkaline water, but because pH is a logarythmic scale, pH 8 to pH 6 is a huge difference, and that can shock the fish. chemicals can often lead to instability in the pH of the tank,...

David thats fantastic

a lovely find the yoyos are fantastic at that sort of size - just watch for the fighting when you introduce them. i rehomed 2 that are inseperable, but they can be very grumpy when you only have a few.