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So you are saying that given equal length, 100 cm, a 30 cm wide tank would be better for hillstreams rather than a 40 cm wide, since it concentrates the flow?

Just a couple of clarifications on technical translations that may help. "German-alltogether Hardness" , that would be Gesamt Haerte. In English they use the same abbreviation, GH, but usually term it General Hardness rather than Total Hardness which it truly means, since in English 'general' fits t...

I've been considering setting up a river tank a la MartinThoene principle whenever I have a suitable tank available. I have just got a freebie 100x40x50. Currently my hillstream loaches (Gastro k, m, and c plus Sewellia l. are in a 100x30x40 community tank with all sorts of other placid fish. This t...

I made this post at AC and it was erased by one of the mods. I got PM'd that it was a personal attack (AC members enjoy)- Fortunately we do not suffer from censorship at LOL. I can write without fear or hindrance that Angelfish83 is the finest young man ever to have come out of Iberia to the Wester...

sophie wrote:hee.

and isn't it "gates"?

pedantic? moi?

Yep. I just checked my Wind in the Willows and you are absolutely correct.

shari2 wrote:Superb pic Graeme. I was going to ask where the pied piper was...

At the gate of dawn

Thanks. The Leptobotia g. in the profiles is a good match for the general shape etc. but the vertical yellow stripes on the fish in the store are much brighter and more clearly defined than in the photo, maybe it is a dud photo. It seems more like the Leptobotia sp. in profiles. Not at all like the ...

I think if you read the whole thread, especially the comment from Heliophobe whose opinions I respect, you'll see things in a different light.

Saw some of these an a store today. Very colorful and attractive fish. Don't see much about them in th profiles. Does anyone keep them?

On the subject of snails- I had the idea of putting a food dish- literally a bowl with vertical sides made of ceramic I could bury in the gravel and put some snails in, like a dinner plate, so I could monitor and make sure they stayed in there- let the loaches such the meat out, then I could remove...

shari2 wrote:Has anyone else noticed that khuli and horsefaced loaches go nuts over snails?

Kuhlis certainly eat MTS. They pounce on 'em when the fleshy head and foot is extended , bite, and extract them. Some say they suck em out, but I doubt this.

It could be worse- a guy around here was killed 2 years ago when his ten gal exploded infront of him while he was looking at it and it shot a glass shard into the worst possible place and he didn't make it... Probably a great way to go. Take a look at your fish and bang, a shard shoots through your...

Hi Charlie. Where is your location? If fellow members see some nice loaches in certain area's, they often Shout or Pinpoint them for others. This is a good point. Many questions about water quality, fish availibility etc. depend on location, and if others don't know where you are they can't be as h...

I can't see your pics. Just a block of text saying in German that this pic is hosted by Aquarium Forum De. The simplest way to post pics here is to open an account (free) with Photobucket. Then you upload your pics to Photobucket and link them from there to here. Just Google photobucket and all will...

Not to toot the horn, but I wrote an article for Fish Geeks early last year describing how to take fish pics with compact digicams. You may find it helpful. It's had over 10K reads in the time it's been up so some folks must like it. Unfortunately the present version has no illustrations. When I was...