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The fins definitetly don't overlap on mine. I have 3x smithi, and I love the way they change color depending on what they are hanging out on... dark drift wood = almost black, white pebble gravel = creamy colored. If the below is a tweediei, then it would make sense when you look at the triangles on...

I think i have the same species:



(sorry about the ordinary picture.... It looks like I'll need to take a better picture tonight)

You have some amazing fish.

Can you tell us what you feed them, and what is your list of fish in the tank? Do you do the algae-covered rock trick?

Wow. You have such a beuatiful tank there. I am completely jealous.

Well, this is what the tank looked like a few weeks ago: http://www.hifihelp.com/fishtankpics/05092010903.jpg I originally had 10 or 11 gastomyzon hillstream loaches. However I think I only have 5 left now. I know two of them died from injuries and stress due to poor catching methods at the store (o...

Hi all. I live in Australia, and the pet stores here are not allowed to sell certain meds. I wish to keep and breed hillstream loaches, but I get such a high mortality rate with them that it has driven me to frustration. I am more likely to have them survive if they are perfectly dark skinned and la...

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That is incredible :-) Well done! Will you try to re-do a future water change in the same way as you did in the past to see if you end up with some more babies? I think it would be clear to say that we would all be very interested in your results. I am especially interested here in Australia, as the...

Farid.... with all your tanks, do you have much in the way of fast flow current in them? I ask this because I would like to try and set up a 3 shelf stand with 3x 2ft tanks on each shelf (9 tanks all up). These would be sitting longwise so that I only see the ends of each tank. I want to keep (and t...

Nice video of the clowns. You have a few oddball clown, which I think are interesting. I don't see too many of them in stores around me. (Oddball ones have different blotches or stripes than the standard 3 stripes).

That is a good size school. Do you have any where for them to hide in?

Okay, I finally worked out how to upload pics to my website (that I haven't done anything to since registering it almost a full year ago! Someday I'll put all my knowledge about hifi systems, amps and wiring home theater into it for everyone else to use). Now that I have pics on it, I can show you w...

I took the water out last night, and then all the stones, and the plants, but didn't get enough time to dig up the substrate carefully enough to keep the gravel, sand and dirt all separate. The problem I had was that there was absolutely no area in the tank that had low or no flow. Everything was ru...

I've got some plant off-cuts floating in the top of the tank at the moment, and they'll go from one end to the other in the correct direction in the space of 2-3 seconds, and then move to the back of the tank and return to the powerheads in about 3-5 seconds. The ambulia will get caught by the flow ...

Hi all. Since I first saw a hillstream loach a few months ago at my local bulk goods pet store I have fallen in love with the idea of creating a River tank for their specific display/keeping. I have a 4ft tank, 18x18 high and wide. I've made a under-substrate manifold using2x 3.5ft lengths of 25mm p...