A gaggle O Sids

[Batch]

Hey,
I got 9 more Sids a couple of months ago from Frank's aquarium,
bringing me up to 12 in the Jungle tank. Pretty fun to watch. A few pics of them in action:














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[clownloachfan]

Smart move on getting more sids, they really enjoy the company of their own kind.

[Graeme Robson]

Lovely!!

[Whitey_MacLeod]

Very nice

[bslindgren]

Wonderful - nice plants. What are the white spots on the rock?

[Mad Duff]

Excellent, the bigger the shoal the more fun they are

Those white dots look like nerite snail eggs

Do you have nerite snails in there ?

[Tinman]

Great Fish.
You might move your rocks and clean under them .It is pretty clean where your gravel cleaner can reach but you have some build-up under the rocks in your gravel. This is the problem with gravels. It lets things accumulate, just a polite observation. Your small fish create huge amounts of small waste.
Rummy nose are one of my favorite little fish. I have many with my neons also.

[Batch]

Those white dots look like nerite snail eggs
Do you have nerite snails in there ?

Yeah, there's ~10 or so. I guess that's what they are. They seem to prefer to lay them on the Khuli caves. I'm kind of surprised that no-one wants
to eat them. Geuss everyone is too small?

you have some build-up under the rocks in your gravel.

I think most of that is black sand. A while back I had this idea of putting sand under the rocks for the Khulis... some of it is still where I put it...

This is the problem with gravels. It lets things accumulate,

Ahhh, but when mixed with laterite it is an excellent substrate for plants.
There are MTS in the gravel, hopefully they and the plants will take care of most of the rotting organic matter. The swordplant's roots are fairly extensive (and its getting too big for the tank ).

just a polite observation.

constructive criticism/observation is a good thing. That's why I go to these type of forums. that and to look at the purdy pictures

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[hyster104]

great pics! nice looking tank you have there. Seeing these photos now makes my hunt for Sids even more urgent.

[Mad Duff]

Yeah, there's ~10 or so. I guess that's what they are. They seem to prefer to lay them on the Khuli caves. I'm kind of surprised that no-one wants
to eat them. Geuss everyone is too small?

I dont think anything can eat them, try scraping them off and you will realise how hard they are. I haven't seen a single fish that is able to eat them.

[Batch]

I dont think anything can eat them, try scraping them off and you will realise how hard they are. I haven't seen a single fish that is able to eat them.

Hmmm. I tried keeping a few with my yo-yos and 3-spot gourami. They
eventually killed them, but there were a few of the eggs in the tank. I didn't
clean them off, but they went away.....

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[Tinman]

[chefkeith]

cool loach tank.