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Hi you all Homaloptera keepers. I finally saw Homalopteras on a stocklist and ordered what are specified as orthogoniatas. Remains to be seen if I get them and what they really are, if so.

My question for you people with experience on these is: do they get out of the tank easily? Jumping or sucking their way up the glass?
Thanks.

Potentially they can jump quite a distance and they are capable of coming of of the water to a degree. If in any doubt then cover wherever possible.

I know, their shape leads to believe they are regular missiles.

I have been in doubt of every species I have added to my open front paludarium, but haven't gotten one casualty so far. Well, fish casualty. I find shrimps on the floor regularly.
Yunnanilus seem to stay in the water, Sewellias and Gastromyzons are ok, they don't climb the glass, all tetras I keep there are fine.

I am in doubt and I know I should play it safe. But I would be interested to hear if anyone has kept Homalopteras in a tank without cover. Succesfully or un-.

I have had 6 Ortho's in a tank with out a cover. In my experiance the way they will get out is via the h.o.b. filter if you don't have a cover on the filter. Although I have not had any issues as sugested before a cover would be better than no cover.

Oh, yes, I'm sure they love to do upstream like mad.
I don't have an HOB filter in the stream-tank. I've had a lot of fish that love to go into them, other hillstreams and pretty much all spiny eels I've kept.

Thanks for the comment. I might try them in the uncovered.

Pls bare with me, but: one more time, anyone here had a Homalop carpetsurfing, ever?

Oh, my. They came. Ten of them.

I'm so excited, they are beautiful little fish. Pretty sure they are orthogoniatas, just short of 2 inches long little fish.

Love them already.

Congratulations!!
They are great fish that I hope to obtain again, soon.

Thanks, Jim!

I've been looking these (or any other Homalops) for quite awhile now.
I have placed an order every time I've seen them on a wholesaler's lists, but have come up empty every time 'till now.

They are in excellent condiion, very active and not at all thin as I have understood they often are when reaching LFS.
I'm a bit puzzled by the fact that they are smaller than what I expected and very uniform in size. Could it be that they are being bred somewhere these days?

I don't know of them being commercially bred, but I have heard of someone (who used to post on this site) finding fry in his river tank.

Ok, then. Perhaps they just catch them at a certain size. No story on my fish, whether they are CB or WC.

But they are lovely:


Judging by the first couple of days, I would say there is no huge risk in them jumping out of the tank.

And they do like current more than the other hillstreamers (Gastros and Sewellias) in the tank.

Very nice!!!!