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The Kapenta Kid
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Post by The Kapenta Kid » Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:55 pm

Hi, I 'm pretty new to the site.
I only recently started keeping hillstreams. Fascinating fish! I have G kweichowensis and G ctenocephalus at present. Here is one of my G kws.
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Post by Graeme Robson » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:05 pm

Hi, The Kapenta Kid. Welcome to LOL. :D

Great picture.
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Post by DarrenMnaples » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:19 pm

nice pic 8)
Should have gotten a bigger tank !
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Post by mikev » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:32 pm

Great pic -- here is one happy fish. It is a B.kws, not G.kws, but it does not seem to mind it. :wink:
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Post by Martin Thoene » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:25 pm

I know TKK from FishGeeks.....he gets Imagefrom me!

Welcome my friend :P

I see you got assimilated at last :wink:

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Post by The Kapenta Kid » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:10 pm

Well I guess I am really assimilado now.
I don't know whether it should be G kws or B kws, what's the word from the experts?
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Post by palaeodave » Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:54 am

What is that whispy looking plant in there? Is it only for cooler water?
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Post by Martin Thoene » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:57 am

Bkws

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Post by helen nightingale » Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:29 am

that is a lovely looking fish. i hope you enjoy life on LOL :D
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Post by The Kapenta Kid » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:53 pm

palaeodave wrote:What is that whispy looking plant in there? Is it only for cooler water?
That plant is actually some algae that is growing on the rock that the fish is lying on, and just out of frame. The same stuff is growing on the rock above the fish, but not so teased out by the current.

I had some of these algae or moss balls in the tank long ago. Some broke up and started to colonize driftwood and rock. It is attractive stuff, not a PITA like most algae, it grows fast, is easily trimmed when there is too much, the loaches snack on it, and it is a great nitrate sink. It grows at any temp, presumably rather cold in its Japanese lakes of origin, but it also thrives in my cichlid tank at around 26 or 80 degrees.
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