My new 1000 liters clown loaches tank (page 22)

[Marcos Mataratzis]

Thanks megadeath!

Maybe we can help you do a fine tune on your tank. Why don´t you make a new post showing us your tank?

Welcome to LOL!

[megadeath]

Yeah sure, I'm on dial up internet though so I'm not sure how well I'll be able to upload the pictures but I'll give it a go.

Maybe we can help you do a fine tune on your tank.

Thanks, although the tank in question runs fairly smoothly (apart from the odd missing scale).
But there is absolutely no way that Discus would last more than an hour or so, so they have their own slow current tank.

[Marcos Mataratzis]

I decided to bring my 3 Discus to the loach tank where I think they will do better. Here are some new shots:





Hope you enjoy!

[Marcos Mataratzis]

4 new incommers:

3 Chinese Algae Eater and a young YoYo:






New YoYo close to older YoYo and kubotai:


Clown loach eating Sera Vipa Chips upside down:


Mr. Big Botia groing up a bit more:


10 loaches:


14 loaches:


15 loaches:


Graying out:


My Jack Dempsey:


And, to finish this post, I finally discovered why my tank cabinet is getting scratched out. That´s Mr. Pepe, my cat.


Also available a new video of my tank made today. Check it out on my signature.

[fish_frenzy]

Great pics and gorgeous fish! I would keep an eye on the chinese algae eaters though as they will suck on the Discus slime coat and can turn rather nasty as they get older.

Tammy

[Marcos Mataratzis]

Hi fish_frenzy,

You´re not the first one to advise me that. In fact, I am aware of it. But I´m also aware Discus prefer calm water and that´s not the reality here in my tank with Rivertank Manifold.
Let´s say... I´m trying on Discus to see if what is said about them is really truth.

[palaeodave]

I'm always jealous when I see those adult yoyos you've got! Sorry to repeat what others have said but I would have passed on the CAE too. Lee inherited one when he bought a second-hand tank and it tried to eat his polypterus! (Ok, just sucked on its head for a while and left a nasty sore.)

[Marcos Mataratzis]

some fresh shots:

20 Loaches:


19 Loaches:




18 Loaches:


17 Loaches:



14 Loaches:




Mr. Big Botia also showed up:


But this time, stars were my chinese algae eaters. I don´t have those brown/green algae everywhere anymore.


Last PC day I brought a few plants and rocks from my Jack Dempsey´s tank, filled out with algae to be eaten here. At the very minute I put stuff at Loaches tank, CAE went there imediately for cleaning them up!












One of my SAE. He eats any kind of food but algae


Apistograma cacatuoide:


Discus:



Botia kubotai:


Younger YoYo:


YoYo ghosting CAE:

YoYo ghosting 27-09-2008

CAE cleaning up rock from Jack Dempsey´s tank:



CAE were identical when got here:



But now, each of them got unike patterns:

CAE 1 got darker and CAE 2 got marble:


Here, side by side with CAE 3 wich became gold:


Some extra shots of them:










And now, for efficience comparison, take a look at this 2 pictures, taken within 10 hours interval:




Aren´t they excelent workers?

Hope you enjoy!

[chefkeith]

excellent pics Marcos. The loaches look as great as ever.

[piggy4]

Wonderful pics !

[Marcos Mataratzis]

Fresh new shots:

16 Botias:


11 Botias:


9 Botias:


Labeo & Discus:


Also did two short videos:

Loaches 10-11-2008
Loaches 10-11-2008 - 2.0

Marcos

[loachcoach]

Your pics are excellent and your loaches look great. One of these days I'm going to have to play around with my camera and see how it works.

[jwyfk]

Beautiful fish with excellent color! I didn't know there was such a thing as Sumatra clown loaches until someone made a post about them on here. It looks like you have some mixed in there, and they do have nicer color. I'll have to keep an eye out for them, but don't know how common they are in the US. I need a bigger tank!

[Marcos Mataratzis]

Hi all,

Some new images of my tank.

2 Clown resting below algae bogus wood:


Some people hate this algae but I love them. They give life to my wood:


Now, I prowdly present you my new aquisition. 3 Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki (very hard to find them in Brazil. I got the 3 available and paid about US$ 21 each):





22 Botias:


My "where is Wally" Loach:


Why Wally? Since young she used to hide and show only face:


Male left, female right:



Stripes developping on my elder loaches:




My Discus:




And now a series of macro (not as good as Emma´s but...):


My #2:


#2 up and Mr. Big Botia bellow:


Mr. Big Botia:



And my best fish shot ever:


Hope you enjoy!

[chefkeith]

That's some good algae. I like it too.

Nice find with the Sids. Excellent pics as usual.