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They look like Kuhlis to me--unless my Kuhlis are really Myersi

loachmom wrote: also keeping the lights off most of the day to entice them to come out to feed.

That sounds like a good idea,

They sure ain't fat :cry: Lots of fine chopped food in the water, as has been suggested, will give them a chance to fatten up. If they are in a tank on their ownio this is essential. If they are with other fish then they are extremely good at teasing out leftover food morsels from anywhere, but stil...

Graeme Robson wrote:
On the plus side! I did manage a couple of pictures of these little chaps in their Temp home.

Always look on the bright side

Is it true that the Chinese for a Roach is a Loach

Could you be a bit more specific in describing the smell. I know you say pungent, which suggests to me an irritating smell like vinegar or ammonia, but maybe you use the term loosely. Is it perhaps a smell like rotten eggs or rotting cabbage?

IMO sand should not have anything growing on it. Some live plants growing in it are fine. But anything that tended to bind it together and consolidate it would defeat the purpose of having freely mobile river sand. So I would just siphon off any sheet algae and turn over any other stuff to bury it. ...

I've never had my kuhlis spawn. But from what I read they lay green eggs. If this is true then the eggs belong to one of your other tank inhabitants.

When in doubt, always check the good old Krib.

http://www.thekrib.com/Fish/hydra.html

There are many many suggestions here, biological, chemical, and thermal--although not thermo-nuclear

Thanks, the LFS here which regularly has hillstreams just calls them indiscriminately G. punctatus. I get a different beast every time I buy one

What is this guy? Sorry for the dud photo.

wasserscheu wrote:. I had once white snails, looking screw like- living in the ground...they were not taken...

These are MTS, color is usually darkish, but they vary. Very hard shells. but apparently some loaches will eat 'em.

I have no idea what killed your kuhli but I'm as sure as sure can be that it wasn't because he got stuck somewhere. They can squeeze themselves into and out of anywhere. If it was hard to detach that was probably because rigor mortis had started.

Focus is bad, I agree. What sort of camera do you have, maybe we can help you.

IMO you don't need caves for Kuhlis. Caves are just open water as far as they are concerned. What you need is driftwood, rocks, and plants. They will find or excavate their own tunnels and slithery holes under and between all that stuff. In other words a fairly tangled and congested bottom is closes...