Stream(ish) project
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Do you know about how old they are? And the sexes? I have 4 males and 2 females, from what I can tell. The females seem to be bigger than the males that I have, but they will fight over "their" spots on rocks or certain places on the back of the tank. As soon as they see another one nearby they will work to chase him or her away as quickly as possible, then go back to grazing, LOL. I love watching them have their little scuffles.
From what I can tell mine are probably less than a year old, so still pretty young and most of them are still pretty small. Perhaps they were still in more sheltered areas when they were caught in the wild? So they never learned to play in the current. Just a thought.
From what I can tell mine are probably less than a year old, so still pretty young and most of them are still pretty small. Perhaps they were still in more sheltered areas when they were caught in the wild? So they never learned to play in the current. Just a thought.
I don't know the origin of my adult Sewellia pair. But the 25mm juvenilesBarnsten wrote:Out of curiosity are your guys' hillstream loaches wild caught or tank bred?
about ten of them in this tank, are tank bred by the pair.
Gastromyzons' origins are unknown.
Anyone an opinion on the species?
G. scitulus?
Thanks for the thumbs-up and thanks for the critique.
I know the round stones look a bit unnatural in there. I just wanted unicolored dark stones. If I find a supply for rougher stones that are dark grey/black, I'll propably go for them.
But first I gotta get the riverbank done (with maybe a small waterfall?) and experiment with root-like wood sticking into water from it. I might go for synthetic wood, the sort I made for this piece:
I know the round stones look a bit unnatural in there. I just wanted unicolored dark stones. If I find a supply for rougher stones that are dark grey/black, I'll propably go for them.
But first I gotta get the riverbank done (with maybe a small waterfall?) and experiment with root-like wood sticking into water from it. I might go for synthetic wood, the sort I made for this piece:
Okay I have to know how you made that wood piece, it looks very real to me. I have a piece of dead branches from a tree that looks like roots that I'm going to soak until it sinks, but that is not a short time to waithx wrote:Thanks for the thumbs-up and thanks for the critique.
I know the round stones look a bit unnatural in there. I just wanted unicolored dark stones. If I find a supply for rougher stones that are dark grey/black, I'll propably go for them.
But first I gotta get the riverbank done (with maybe a small waterfall?) and experiment with root-like wood sticking into water from it. I might go for synthetic wood, the sort I made for this piece:
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Finally got around to starting to make the rest of the paludarium, i.e. the river bank above the waterline.
A couple of teasers of progress so far:
Fake stone and the box for the streambank
Fitting some fake tree stump and rooting
Two stages of making the roots
Another layer done. A bit of shading and highlighting to go, after they dry/harden for a couple of days.
More in a couple of days or so.
A couple of teasers of progress so far:
Fake stone and the box for the streambank
Fitting some fake tree stump and rooting
Two stages of making the roots
Another layer done. A bit of shading and highlighting to go, after they dry/harden for a couple of days.
More in a couple of days or so.
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