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this is not stretch markings from growth. im talking about some kind of ailment that must have formed over the weekend. it basically looks like bleach was poured onto your clothing and left white splotches on the black. its not a fungus. i started treating the tank with a metronazidole bc it was the...

At my work I take care of the office tank. I came in yesterday and one of the clowns appears to have white streaks on the black stripes. It looks like bleach was poured on the stripes and they whited out. I can't find any info on what type of disorder this is. Could anyone help. I will try to get pi...

aquarium safe sealant available at home depot. i had to glue it in tiers. so the bottom three glued first. then the middle two glued first. after that dried, the 2nd layer was glued to the first layer and then the single tube at the top was glued to the 2nd tier. so 2 days to construct. then i let t...

new addition to the tank. 3" pvc pipe. left out the center piece and dug a hole in the sand. i always pile the sand into mounds and dig holes in the tank. the loaches like to sleep in the low areas. its like sand mountains. also the tiny little crease between the 2nd tier pvc pipes has a striata sno...

i went back to petsmart yesterday. they had the same rostratas labeled as botia spp. Angelicu botia. although i am still convinced they are rostratas.

this is a video of the alpha loach showing dominance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Acl_WvyGuA

botia rostrata eating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqCIKDXPfCw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGLGP01HGKw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F3qgNNIRYY

interesting keith. i had done a water change using prime only, i have an upside down cat that looked like he was unconscious. he floated and i nabbed him with the net. and i have him in a small holder for now. hes doing better. but i felt that the prime i used did not remove all of the chlorine. so ...

ok now that i looked at these. id say your right. they all look very similar. but this picture looks exactly like them. thanks martin. its funny ive gone from botia kubotai to historonica to rostrata. either way im happy with the decision ive never seen these guys around this area in the last 2 year...

yes piggy i agree now. i saw another similar thread then looked at the kubotai reference next to the historonica reference. they look like historonica to me now. martin said they look like botia rostrata. and now after looking at the pictures i think that one has the closest resemblance to these lit...

if its pets mart i got a batch of them labeled as yoyos but they look very much like botia kubotai or botia historonica. ill try putting up some pictures for reference if i can't get these hyper little guys to hold still long enough. this guy looks like your pictures. this one is the runt. the other...

my clowns snoozing

So i removed all the rocks from my tank to see if its causing the high tds. the bad thing is im doing a 10 day treatment with an antibiotic so i believe this will make the test unreliable. but so far, the tds dropped 25 points when i removed all the rocks. as of half the day today its dropped anothe...

yeah i can't wait till i can have my larger loaches schooling with my new kubotai. the funniest thing is my striatas and my clowns. the clowns are around 5" plus. all my striatas are about 2". but the alpha is about 4". and he hangs with the big boys. although hes smaller, i have a feeling the alpha...

i got some baby kubotais recently. i have 6 total. and they are having a good ole time with each other. its very entertaining. they are fun fish! loaches are always more entertaining in groups. together, they make quite and entertaining show. the kubotais are a little goofy as well. ive got baby kub...