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Day 60 video.

https://youtu.be/uHUPwiQMh7k

I got some repashy soilent green delivered today, tried to dip smooth river stones in the hot liquid... didnt stick, poured the hot liquid mix over smooth river stones again didnt stick, finally tired pouring over lava rock and it did stick.

I put the lava rock with the soilent green green in the tank about 5 hours ago, its holding pretty well on the rough lava rock and the loaches are showing interest in it, not exactly flocking to the rock but they are interested in it and I have seen some grazing on the rock / gel mix.

Managed to capture a quick video of a few some gastro's getting into the gel. Will take the rock out when lights go out, hopefully they develop a taste for the gel, i need to get some smaller lava rocks as it doesn't seem they will eat this much food in the 6 hours the light is on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=del8aymoh78

Tank is going well, slowly growing more green algae on the rocks, changed up my lighting schedule to be much longer and more inline with sunlight hours, seems the loaches are enjoying the change, could be due to more algae / diatom growth.

The loaches are much more active at the end of the lighting period, I try watch the tank when lights go out, there is still a bit of ambient light from the window and other rooms, they are much more active at this time, just after lights out.

Here is a quick video of a fight between two loaches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC6j2GzjtRk

wow, what a beautiful tank! :o lovely hillstreams too.

Took some photos this evening, love looking at the loaches close up, they have such personality.


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What is the green coloured loach in the first pic, also do you have to heat up the soilemt green gel?

FishyLady wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 08, 2018 4:18 pm

What is the green coloured loach in the first pic, also do you have to heat up the soilemt green gel?

I am not sure of the ID of the loaches sorry, I think the first loach is a pseudogastromyzon myersi but that is just a guess.

The gel food is a powder, you mix with boiling water (about 1 part food mix, 2/3 part boiling water) stir for about 10-20 sections until smooth and quickly pour onto lava rock (or other rough rocks) it sets quickly so you dont have much time. Also doesn't stick well to smooth rocks.

Here are another couple of ways to use the Repashy Soilent green food, I like the one where you make it in a tub and then cut it up into pieces, you can then freeze these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYDuYo1UrHE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvFPTsAu04o

Starting to get some nice green algae growth, here are some updated FTS, the loaches where sleeping / hiding, seem to only come out at the end of the light cycle / late at night, I have changed my light to stay on at 1% for two hours at the end of the cycle, gives me a good chance to watch the loaches scoot about.

Pretty sure dosing silica has helped with green algae growth. Still got dots of BBA around the place but I feel with the green algae growth its slowly smothering out some of the BBA.


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Shot a nice long (10 minutes) video tonight, the loaches where out and about. Some of the focus isnt great as it was towards the end of my light cycle and had to use a low f-stop to expose the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WyT...ature=youtu.be

Great photos!

Added 4 more loaches, where just labeled "Borneo Suckers" not to sure what they are, Pseudo gastro's I am pretty sure, will try some macro shots during the week.

Here is a FTS, the new loaches seem to have interested the existing loaches, much more activity today.


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Some photos of the new loaches, not the best photos taken in the day light with a flash, the new loaches hang out in the open all day, as opposed to the original loaches hide during the day and come out at night...

I can see one is missing a chunk near its head, poor guy, the young guy trying to catch the loaches in the store had some issues, was trying to use his fingers to get it off the glass, I told him to use a credit card and gave him one of my cards and he was able to slide the loach of the glass, I am guessing the damage happened when the guy was trying to pick the loach of the glass with his fingers, do you guys think it will recover? You can see the damage in the first loach photo.


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