Loaches Online Forum

Hello i am a relatively new aquarium keeper, with Guppies, gourami, various types of Tetras, Molly, african clawed frogs, Plecs. Glass, armano, and cherry shrimp and Yoyo and clown loaches. I adore all of my fish and their quirky habits, like the male Molly who displays at the phantom tetra, but yet abuses his wife. Grahaeme the dwarf gourami who stalks his food, I have to say my fav's are the loaches and shrimps, i dont think ive ever watched a complete programme on the telly since i started with the tank
All of my fish have survived well and look plump and healthy, my only worry is a very small yoyo which i bought with another one, the other one has doubled in size whereas, this one has never grown, looks long and thin. He/she appears healthy enough, enjoys its grub and swims around, and has been with me for a few months now. Although one thing i noticed, it was very easy to catch compared to the others i have. Any ideas please?

I have two tanks, one a 165ltr Aqua one cube tank and a smaller 48lt one i use to give the femal guppies a rest and to give birth, and to put any 'picked on' fish in...like the poor female molly who would have died otherwise. I call it my R&R tank.
I have two approx 3" yoyo and 2 slightly smaller clowns in the larger tank and two very small yoyo in the smaller tank to help keep it clean.

I keep living plants, have a large external filter and change small amounts of water about 2 times per month.

Any advice will be really welcome.



Some pics of my mob...well the ones that will stay still long enough to be photographed!


Thunder thighs



Glass shrimp



Gorgeous Grahaeme



Cherry shrimp



Little runty boy



Small mob loaches



Armano shrimp

Great pics von, whereabouts in the north are you mate?

mick

Right up north in Northumberland Mick

cheers, nice part of the country bud.

mick

Hi Von, lovely pics

Number 5 took me little by surprise at first

They are very social budgies Duff

Von wrote:They are very social budgies Duff

They must be well trained to hold their breath so long

You will probably find that "little runty boy" in that pic will all of a sudden start filling out and growing, I have had a few that have struggled for a while to gain weight and then they have started bulking up and have grown nicely

yeah those birds are very tolerant

u have the shrimps in the same tank as the loaches? No predation?

namal kamalgoda wrote:u have the shrimps in the same tank as the loaches? No predation?

No Namal, they dont seem in the slightest bit interested?

I dont know if that will change when they grow bigger though....i hope not, i enjoy watching the shrimp

Mad Duff wrote:

Von wrote:They are very social budgies Duff

They must be well trained to hold their breath so long

You will probably find that "little runty boy" in that pic will all of a sudden start filling out and growing, I have had a few that have struggled for a while to gain weight and then they have started bulking up and have grown nicely

Hello, back again to give an update on runty boy

Well he has not changed in the slightest, is still tiny, about the length of a rummy nose tetra but thinner. The one he arrived with is about 10 times bigger than him, and i have had him about 7mths now. His behaviour is also different, wheras the 'normal' loaches spend a lot of time lazing about he is constantly on the go.
Will he still change, or have i discovered a new strain of loach