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Some up to date photo's of some of my Sid's:








And this one possibly shows three generations of sid's together:

beautiful mate just beautiful.
one of our show boys had quite a few but only for showing, very similar looking to yours, but his were at maximum size.
i've still got a pic somewhere that has the very best sidthimunki i've ever seen another show fish, only i can't remember the guy's name who used to show it.
i'm sure the guys first name was Andy. Andy rush will say it if he sees this.

mick

Some beautiful specimens, they're obviously enjoying themselves

hey bud missed the other fish in the pics, is that a guntheri at the bottom of pic 2 and a nice pentazona mate.
and whats the loach in pic 3 is that another guntheri?.

mick
ps, you can't sneak other fish in without at least a mention.

Yeah thats a Pentazona in pic 1 and a Guentheri in pic 3

very good lookers!

Mark, the showman with the sid was Andy feast, you might remember his name from when you were a bit younger.
Andy rush has a pic of his fish, if i can get my hands on it, i can put it up on LOL.

mick

The name doesn't ring a bell Mick, I did have a sid that was over 2" some years back and a friend Denise Wilson had one that was a touch smaller but slightly deeper bodied and we won quite a few shows between us with our sid's, my first ever best in show was with this sid and I also won the NEFAS supreme champion with it.

It shared a 4' tank with a pair of severums 2x 6" Tiger botias and 4x 6" Brycinus imberi and it used to make their lives hell, it was one feisty little loach

i was on the bell to Andy before mate and we both remembered a sid we saw at Chester Zoo, i could'nt believe my eye's bud there was a female in the display tank and she had to be 3 inches long SL.
and i'm not pulling your leg mate.
and it was a definite sid.

mick

I do think that many years ago when they were wild fish coming through you could grow them to good sizes and big one did turn up every now and then.

Stunning, MD. I wish mine were less shy. They only really appear at feeding time.

Emma

Beautiful Sidht's indeed MadDuff

Hope to be giving mine a tank for themselves so they can
spawn some young.
I already spot a lot of pre spawning behaviour amongst them.
With all these other fish the eggs will never get a chance.

Any tankmates you can sugest to keep em active and happy ?
As they tend to get really reclusive if they,re the sole tank inhabitants.

CatsandFish wrote: Any tankmates you can sugest to keep em active and happy ?

I have some Pangio species in with my sids and as dithers:

Puntius pentazona
Puntius Gelius
Danio Choprae
Trigonostigma heteromorpha
Trigonostigma espei

All of which are kept in groups of 6 minimum

Absolutely superb pics of great looking Sid's

I think this is the only way to keep Sid's really ,I can tell by looking at your list of other fish that the Sid's are the top of the hirachy .

I was chatting with Mick last night and he said i would enjoy these pics


The guy who had the big show Sid was called Andy Feast , think he was a London fishkeeper

Hi,
You Dwarf Loaches look loverly.
Hope to get some for myself soon.
mack