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by Bas Pels
Mon Apr 11, 2022 3:17 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Mixed-species loach tanks
Replies: 2
Views: 5167

Re: Mixed-species loach tanks

I have a 177 * 45 * 40 cm tank, populated with

11 Botia almorhae (?)
5 Acantopsis choirhonhynchius
6 Nemacheilus longistriatus
9 Trigonopoma pauciperforatum
9 Rasbora borapetensis

The question mark relates to the uncertaincy of the species. After all, a lot of species are similar to B almorhae
by Bas Pels
Tue Mar 22, 2022 3:33 am
Forum: Freshwater Forum
Topic: Who has green neon tetras?
Replies: 3
Views: 106784

Re: Who has green neon tetras?

Here the three species of Cheirodon are almost always offered. So, if I would want that one, I could get them. But I have only Cardinal tetras
by Bas Pels
Mon Mar 21, 2022 3:34 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Why do you like loaches?
Replies: 10
Views: 17322

Re: Why do you like loaches?

I wonder whether loaches are really easy to care for, but that aside.

I like their sillyness. I have heard fish from the catfish familly Trichomisteridia (most likely misspelled) from South America have a similar behaviour, but I never kept them. Never had the opportunity
by Bas Pels
Fri Mar 18, 2022 6:56 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: Clown Loach with Velvet and Secondary infection? Help!
Replies: 6
Views: 19231

Re: Clown Loach with Velvet and Secondary infection? Help!

When a fish develops a secondary infection, it is most often beyond recue. Secondary infections are not specialized, they are oportunistic. And what does an apportunistic bacerium need? Many, many chances - that is, many offspring. Creating that will certainly kill the host. Once I had a simitlar pr...
by Bas Pels
Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:37 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: clown loach compatibility with angelfish, zebra loaches, yoyo and pleco
Replies: 15
Views: 15069

Re: clown loach compatibility with angelfish, zebra loaches, yoyo and pleco

On a Dutch forum, on cichlids, I always warn people not to hope to be lucvky with a combination, but to go for certain. And as you stated, many combinations work, for a while. Personally I think a combination works, if it works for a year. Or more. @ Ancistrus, I could not tell you when the soft bab...
by Bas Pels
Fri Feb 11, 2022 3:30 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: clown loach compatibility with angelfish, zebra loaches, yoyo and pleco
Replies: 15
Views: 15069

Re: clown loach compatibility with angelfish, zebra loaches, yoyo and pleco

@ Ancisturs, while I would have excpected the clowns to eat their fry, it is always a good idea to keep only males. Or, in a tank with only 1, a female. They do breed like rabbits, and while it is easy to recognize a male, a 'female'can turn out to be a male - hence the idea of keeping 6 females is ...
by Bas Pels
Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:01 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: clown loach compatibility with angelfish, zebra loaches, yoyo and pleco
Replies: 15
Views: 15069

Re: clown loach compatibility with angelfish, zebra loaches, yoyo and pleco

While I agree with you that all fishes share their habitat with others, and in most cases they will not mind if the other fish is not one from their natural habitat, the combination clown loaches with angelfish is not one I would recommend. In water chemistry, the differences are not the problem. Ho...
by Bas Pels
Wed Feb 02, 2022 10:05 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Genetically poor weather loaches?
Replies: 8
Views: 7987

Re: Genetically poor weather loaches?

with regard towards legally keeping Misgurnis species, as far as I know, in the UK they are all illegal. The European one certainly is. On the European continent, the European wheather loach is often protected, such as in the Netherlands, making it illegal to keep them. NBut no restriction, what so ...
by Bas Pels
Mon Jan 10, 2022 3:29 pm
Forum: Freshwater Forum
Topic: Pink Tail Chalceus
Replies: 4
Views: 14240

Re: Pink Tail Chalceus

I never saw them alive, but they grow BIG nit big, but BIG 20 cm or more, and you better have a school of them.

not someting fore a 6 feet tank
by Bas Pels
Sat Dec 18, 2021 3:13 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Weather loach tank size
Replies: 5
Views: 6769

Re: Weather loach tank size

With regard to riverine of swampy loaches - Chromobotia is said to be a migratory species.

I never was on Sumatra, I can't say from experience, but assuming this in fo is correct, there are no sapmpy or riverine fishes - they are all riverine. But some of them not yet.
by Bas Pels
Fri Dec 17, 2021 3:27 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Weather loach tank size
Replies: 5
Views: 6769

Re: Weather loach tank size

Misgurnis are lender fish while Chromobortia are very bulky. That could very well explain the 1.5 times larger tank Further, as far as I know, Chromobotia can be quite agressive, while Misgurnis are not, or for less. To me this 183 cm (I think it was originally 6 feet) is therefore a rather small ta...
by Bas Pels
Thu Dec 09, 2021 3:17 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Substrate for weather loaches question
Replies: 1
Views: 4281

Re: Substrate for weather loaches question

I would certainly want to have twice their thickness
by Bas Pels
Thu Nov 25, 2021 2:54 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Are weather loaches really unsuitable for tropical tanks?
Replies: 7
Views: 7535

Re: Are weather loaches really unsuitable for tropical tanks?

In matters like this, it is always best to know about your fishes.

It won´t hellp much to know how to keep a loach from sri lanks if yours are from near Hongkong for instance.
by Bas Pels
Thu Nov 25, 2021 11:06 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Are weather loaches really unsuitable for tropical tanks?
Replies: 7
Views: 7535

Re: Are weather loaches really unsuitable for tropical tanks?

Not all of Burma is year round warm, I have for instance Petruichthys brevis, Danio kyathit and Celestichthys choprae from this country, and they all come from far inland, and higher in the mountains. The same goes for Micronemacheilus cruciatus and Tanichthys micagemmae from Vietnam. Seriously fish...
by Bas Pels
Thu Nov 25, 2021 2:41 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Are weather loaches really unsuitable for tropical tanks?
Replies: 7
Views: 7535

Re: Are weather loaches really unsuitable for tropical tanks?

To me, the problem lies in the first quote: In the aquarium they should be kept at a steady sub-tropical temperature There are no sub-tropical areas on the world where the temperature is steady year-round. There are, however, areas in the tropics where the temperature is, year round, a bit lowered b...