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by AnneH
Tue Oct 22, 2013 1:29 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It means a lot to me :D How much do sids and kubs usually cost in the US? Since I have to preorder the loaches, I think I'll just jump into it, buy both the sids and the kubs (if they look good) and see what happens. In the meantime a few people have told me that...
by AnneH
Sun Oct 20, 2013 4:35 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

The waiting time might be over soon :D . Next sunday there is a nice fish fair in my part of Denmark, where one of the sellers offers both sids and kubs. He has distributed a price list revealing that he can sell sids a bit cheaper than usual and kubs at half the price. Now I am suddenly tempted to ...
by AnneH
Tue Oct 01, 2013 7:08 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

I was thinking of water quality, overwhelming your nitrifying bacteria. It "shouldn't" take long for the beneficial bacteria to multiply enough for the new loaches & the added ammonia but you'll want to keep an eye on it at least once a day. I usually wait a few days before feeding (and then just s...
by AnneH
Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:57 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

NancyD wrote:10 kubotai might be a lot to add at 1 time unless they're quite small.
Is this because of the water quality or because of their behaviour? As I live a bit far away from all the interesting fish stores, it would be rather inconvenient for me not to buy all ten of them at the same time.
by AnneH
Fri Sep 20, 2013 12:31 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

The other fish have only been in the tank for at few days, and the tank has only had water in it for 1½ weeks. That's why I intend to wait a painfull month or more from now. This is my dream tank and if I can keep things from going wrong, I certainly will. :wink: The kubs at the store looked perfect...
by AnneH
Thu Sep 19, 2013 5:40 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

What is the crypt/aponogeton plant on the left? I think it is a Cryptocoryne aponogetifolia (I got it from somebody who didn't know, but it looks like that one). All the crypts in the tank are "melting down" at the moment, but they will be fine again after a while. My QT is quite small (about 40L) ...
by AnneH
Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:17 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

I think botia type loaches are a bit rowdy for more shy pangios. They also might find any openings in your background & hide all the time. I have thought it over, and I totally agree. The kuhlis stay where they are. Newest pic, now with some fish added: 5 crossocheilus siamensis (from my other tank...
by AnneH
Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:53 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

Finally it starts looking like a fish tank :lol: Today I managed to add bottom fertilizer (clay, sphagnum and micro nutricient powder), a thin layer of sand, insect net in order to prevent the fish from digging down to the fertilizer, and sand on top of it all. Photos from the process: The bottom fe...
by AnneH
Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:38 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

Hm... I suddenly started wondering if it would be a good idea to add my kuhli's to this tank, once it has matured for some time. If I did that, the total of fish would be: 10 Botia kubotai 10 Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki 10 Pangio kuhlii 5 Crossocheilus siamensis (from my other tank, they'd enjoy some ...
by AnneH
Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:53 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

Thank you :) I bought it that way and payed a bit extra for the store to install the background and the bioballs etc. They have a guide for setting up a background filter here: http://www.unimati.biz/getdoc.asp?id=11&md5hash=AF38AA854A4958F718FD034B8457E5A3 Although it is in Danish I hope that the p...
by AnneH
Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:44 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

I don't actually know how much the background decreases the tank, but you can read more about the size of it here: http://www.rockzolid.dk/en/node/65 You're absolutely right, the "hair curlers" (so-called sinking bioballs) are part of the filtration built into the background (you can see the grid wh...
by AnneH
Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:41 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

Things move extremely slowly forward, but at least the tank arrived 10 days ago, and at last we got the cabinet together yesterday. Unfortunately, it will still take some time before I can start adding sand, plants, water, ect., but at any rate I can share the first photographs of the empty tank: ht...
by AnneH
Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:41 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

A nice pair of discrossus filimentosa (sp?) checkerboard chichlid would go great with those guys as well. Hope to see some pics! I intend to keep it mainly Asian, so I guess I'll try the tinwini. But thanks for the interesting suggestion :) Any comments on the number of fish? The tank should arrive...
by AnneH
Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:54 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: My kubotai dream coming true
Replies: 57
Views: 56914

Re: My kubotai dream coming true

Thank you for the comments. I'll post photos as soon as the tank arrives and as the project evolves. :) Maybe d. kyathit if tinwinii are not a good fit? Interesting suggestion. The danio tinwini were suggested by a fish store with a lot of experience and respect for the animals. I'll think about it ...
by AnneH
Sun Aug 04, 2013 4:48 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Sids or striatas? Or....?
Replies: 14
Views: 12477

Re: Sids or striatas? Or....?

Time flies and sometimes good things happen. I found a good home for the lonely yoyo (with other yoyos :)) and decided to leave my 160 litres tank as it was. Meanwhile I got "permission" from my husband to get a bigger tank, so now I can finally have a loach tank with a nice group of kubotai as the ...