Loaches Online Forum

Wow !

Thanks for the update

Lots of nice cyprinids and others there

Yes ... Thank you

I know that on my home club forum there are constant attempts by spammers to post their crap

I think Histrionica are a bit seasonal. I have only found them twice in 5 years. Very nice fish. Better than Yoyos in many ways. I rarely see them in the fish shops, but I purchased 3 a few months ago that were labelled as Histrionica. They were pretty small to tell for sure if they are Histrionica...

starsplitter7 wrote: I also picked up 7 small Panda garras for $5.

That was a steal !

I love those little cyprinids but I have only 2, I had 3 but one died last month.
I have never seen them around here so I have not had an opportunity to add to my colony

starsplitter7 wrote: THe young orange fin and then the old orange fin.

Second place was the young orange fin botia
Third place was the Striata

My loaches were the clown, the striata and the older orange fin botia

My other friends might think I'm weird, otherwise, posting a full album of just fish photos. It isn't exactly the sort of thing that facebook is used for Sure it is, I have albums of my fish on Facebook, just like other friends who have albums of dogs/cats/birds/reptiles whatever ... another friend...

raedeon wrote:Awesome pictures. I'd love to see more of those dwarves.

Sure, I have about 8 dwarf chain loaches, so I think I have more photos, I will take a look tomorrow ...

There's something with Florida water that makes keeping many of the shrimp very difficult. My parents used to live in Florida. When ever I visited them there, I did not drink the water, I did not like the sulphur or mineral taste, and in other parts of Florida, the water seemed very soft, like rain...

plaalye wrote:Most likely the clown loach, but I like the old modesta myself.

Yes, the Clown was first

Any guesses on 2nd and 3rd ?

Hi all, This past Sunday, my home club, the Kitchener-Waterloo Aquarium Society held their annual Oktoberfish Show and Auction. There is a Loach class in the show. Which one do you think was judged to be 1st place ? Young Orange Fin Botia: http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c258/zenins/Misc%202012/IM...

DainBramage1991 wrote:Great photos!

I really like the stripe pattern on your histrionica, it's a very pretty fish. Quite a bit different from any of my histies.

Thanks.

I like the pattern on this Histionica, especially the tail, much bolder lines than on a YoYo

starsplitter7 wrote:Those are great. So glad to see some pictures from you again.

Thanks

... and you have 5,000 posts !

Hey all, I have not posted any photos for some time, so here are some from Sept and Oct 2012: 3 of 5 Clowns in this tank: http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c258/zenins/Misc%202012/IMG_1866.jpg Histrionica: http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c258/zenins/Misc%202012/IMG_1868.jpg Histrionica again ( I r...

Must have been a swim bladder problem ? I am not sure if there are antibiotics that can help with that. My dojo/weather loaches will also float to the surface from time to time, but usually it is trapped gas in the digestive tract, I give them some "Pepso Food" from Jungle Labs, it makes them pass t...

My own observations with B. Histrionicas are that as juveniles their vertical bars tend to be solid and usually have no horizontal component to them. Again, this is "usual", I have a couple of fish that vary from this pattern somewhat. As they mature, the vertical bar will often split, resembling t...