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I love my fluval canister.
not sure if that was on-topic or not.

you're going to make your weather loaches fairly unhappy, though

they're susceptible to bacterial infections and I have a suspicion that the high temps might exacerbate that.

sorry.

I'm pretty sure I have one of those.
but mine is significantly less fat.

I think you;re right about teh amount of dojos, Martin; I was just thinking that even with four dojos it ought to be fine to add a few more cories, no?

Munk, that seems a pretty conservative estimate to me? edit: hit send before I finished, oops. It's a pretty big tank, and cories aren't going to add a huge amount to the bioload, surely? I think I might be a bit more worried about the shark harrassing them, but I'm not a shark person, so I might be...

August - you mean NOT in term-time?

wooohooo!

Em,
is the really huge one gravid, or just huge??

I was thinking that someone who took as good care of those chiclids wasn't going to be happy about a compromise in either direction...

that's three pretty specialist set-ups you'll have

magenta?! pictures, quickly! I want to see a magenta yoyo!

yep, I recognise that photo.

I think I've seen it credited as b birdii somewhere, too.

I posted this before, I think, but I have no idea wher, so here it is:

they tend not to jump out of bigger tanks, if that sets your mind at rest. I have one that is all zigzag shaped from hitting the lid of the quarantine tank so many times, but they don't jump out of the four foot tank...

you're a dedicated and energetic man!

that's a fantastic setup you've got there...

striatas??

mine change colour a fair bit; ranging through grey to gold with beige and brown as well. I don;t mean the colour that golden weather loach have, this is more like iron pyrites than that odd fleshy colour the golds have...