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Belated intro
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:55 pm
by The Kapenta Kid
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:05 pm
by Graeme Robson
Hi, The Kapenta Kid. Welcome to LOL.
Great picture.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:19 pm
by DarrenMnaples
nice pic
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:32 pm
by mikev
Great pic -- here is one happy fish. It is a B.kws, not G.kws, but it does not seem to mind it.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:25 pm
by Martin Thoene
I know TKK from FishGeeks.....he gets
from me!
Welcome my friend
I see you got assimilated at last
Martin.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:10 pm
by The Kapenta Kid
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?
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:54 am
by palaeodave
What is that whispy looking plant in there? Is it only for cooler water?
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:57 am
by Martin Thoene
Bkws
Martin.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:29 am
by helen nightingale
that is a lovely looking fish. i hope you enjoy life on LOL
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:53 pm
by The Kapenta Kid
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.