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Yeah your right. If you go down to loaches (13) on the left towards the bottom you will see articles in a blog romat about breeding batik loaches, then sewellia, and then the article i tried to link to.

Eine Schmerle zum Züchten: die Myanmar-Zwergschmerle (Yunnanilus sp.) Yes, it was bred in Germany, this is the translated page, http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netzgeist.org%2Ftest_gebiet%2Fpages%2FKurzberichte%2FDrachen-Zwergschmerle.htm&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 It's h...

Beautiful tank! With beautiful zebras!

Your unknown fish looks like a paraotocinclus species to me??

Hi Daspricey i'm looking forward to seeing the pics ! Hi Piggy, Sorry, missed your post. :oops: I will certainly take pics of most of the fish and the post of "tank in progress". :) Thanks again Emma. :) Hi carphunter, i want to err onto the side of caution and go for some aquarium reef grade pipin...

I've just been to B&Q and came back with some large pebbles and smaller bag of pebbles. They didn't have piping small enough (21.5mm<) so i had a look at the tmc site but they only go down to 21mm. :( I've now found this seller, ocean life aquatics ; they do 20mm piping and have everything but the T...

Hi David, not sure what B&Q have in the way of pipework, I must have a look next time I'm there. Ashleigh has also been looking for manifold pipework recently - I explained that the grey Aqua Medic stuff I've used is special order and can take time to arrive, so gave her the heads up about a TMC eq...

What are these?

I don't know but i want some! They are stunning little things!

They do however remind me of these,

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... =schistura

But there's little details which are different.

David

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I am sure Coolio is indeed a dojo. His markings are turning out very cool, he was very dark all over when I got him and the markings now are a nice suprise.

Looking at the fins your probably right. Just amazing patterns!!

Beautiful fish! :) Coolio is stunning! In fact i'm not even sure that is a dojo loach, that pattern is amazing. Just to add are your dojos going to be move to the 55? 20 is a little small. I may also add that you shouldn't mix dojos and coolies if you intended to, they have different temperature req...

Stunning tank!

Hi guys, thanks for the great replies! :D Moving fish and tanks around as you decribe will work, keep the cycled filters going on the temporary tanks so the bacteria and the fish get plenty of oxygen. Yup, i've got all that organised. The internal filter media will be going in the internal filter in...

Hi guys, On August 8th-10th i will be turning the big tank upside down. I will be taking out all the fish and water. All the wood, rocks and plants will have a good wash. I'm taking all of the sand out and replacing it with a mixture of sand (Again) and very small round pebbles. I will also be insta...

Hmm, yeah i can see what you mean. What about cobitis biwae, here are some photos of C. Biwae

photo 1

photo 2

Or possibly one of these unknown,

photo 1

photo 2

? As you can see the markings on cobitis are very variable. My moneys on Biwae

That female is a stunner!!!

Heres the link that i found about C. taenia reproduction,

http://www.joerg-bohlen.de/Publications ... DF#page=79

Be warned it's a large PDF, it also has lots of other thing related to cobitis.

OHHH, i am soooooooooooooooooo jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are Cobitis taenia!!

I've got a paper explaining how they spawn and how they got them to spawn. I'll dig that out in a minute.

David