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Thanks for your nice comments, I need to setup the tanks new anyway, so there will be more update sooooomeday. ... On average it took a loach about a month to figure out. ... I started the whole thing, as during the first water bridge the Y.caudipunctata and B.striata plugged the pipes the first nig...

Never finished the above post, it was about 1/2" by that time, I blew up the picture. It is still alive, but back in it's parents tank, who may not live anymore - did not see them for a while. This chap I saw again yesterday. The special thing about it, is that it survived escaping from his parents ...

Oh no, will vinyl gloves help by avoiding contact, or is even the smell already triggering?

NIce that the youngsters are growing - that sounds like lots of good fun.

These are combining my most favorite fish, loaches and gobies, in one "model" - fascinating. Thank you Odyssey for the excellent pictures and describtion.

A good New Year to everybody

thanks Gary. here some of mine, trying to measure them. Somehow the camera does make the scale appear bigger and the fish smaller? hmmm, thought they were larger when checking with the scale :lol: sorry about the algae on the glass, I did not clean the glass for half a year. there are never enough c...

Excellent idea trying to get updates from owners with large clowns 8) Yes, post pictures of your giant baby, please. My largest is around 6" (TL) in a group of 6. I visited a friend, who has very recently bought a group of mature clowns. Her clowns were put in her tank a day before I took the follow...

Where can you get garnet sand ? I got mine at a watercutting place. Places that cut variuos materials with a waterbeam for the industrie. The sand is added to the water beam for more abrasion. Sandblaster places also may have some. This older thread also was about sand: http://forums.loaches.com/vi...

http://www.aquaristikimdetail.net/wbb3/allgemeine-aquaristik/14660-sand-als-bodengrund-war-bei-mir-problematisch/index2.html Just used that old link in a German post, as I have it at hand I copy it also here. Please scroll down for pictures. It is garnet sand, thus 2,5 times heavier than normal sand...

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Congratulations!

the only thing I can tell is, that I robbed his nest (sucked off with a hose) and put the eggs into a brine shrimp sifter which was floating in the filter tank. After they grew big enough to not disappear in the filter matt, I let them further grow in the filter tank, the open filter matt (of a slow...

Janne cought one climbing his waterfall, what a great picture.

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... =waterfall

Danke Tanja and Menu here some pic's and "fall-time-mood" from mud & water as this season is conquering the little valley nearby ... Smooth runs the water, where the brook is deep http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o143/wolfram37/Glonn/1010140001-F.jpg Yes William, but it’s dark, http://i119.photobu...

Haven’t posted for while, so I’m gonna compensate that with an overload of fall pic’s What nice motives there were, if I wasn’t such a late-riser like me, but thanks to our friends even I saw the sunrise once this year http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o143/wolfram37/Alps/Karwendel%20Herbst/DSCF045...

... They are good enough to make a big difference visually, but I'm being told they don't make it for the plants. ... Very impressive work on your tanks 8) Regarding the LED tech., this chart shows the plant-growth-relevant efficiency of variuos lamps. It's measured in 2 approaches. The summary sta...

Thanks Keith for your valuable update, very much appreciated. As of the very moment, I can't think of things that are not discussed here, the mattenfilter you know already, over here many people use CO2 for their planted tanks and thus avoid airbubbles and flow on the surface and keep the flow on th...