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Interesting what you find when looking for something else...

Post by Jim Powers » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:32 pm

Here is some hillstream info I found while looking at some info on Bolbitis (African Water Fern). Interesting mix of hillstreams pics and info, but they make the goldfish connection :cry:
http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Oddball ... Sucker.htm
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Post by Graeme Robson » Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:11 pm

Borneo must be everywhere in Asia!
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Post by Martin Thoene » Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:34 am

Hmmmm....a very broad sweeping brush that "common name".

If you think that you found something you weren't expecting, get a load of what I found while searching Garra......

http://www.psoriasisfishcure.com/resear ... r_fish.htm

http://www.psoriasisfishcure.com/video.htm

http://www.garrarufazucht.de/grufae.htm

Now I know why the Garra go so nuts when I go near the tank. They want to eat ME :shock:

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Post by Graeme Robson » Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:47 am

Yeah thats what has always put me off them in the past. Skin eaters!
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Post by aquarioten.nl » Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:34 am

garra only eat dead skin people with some disease (don't know the englishname) have a benefit from those fish. since the eat the ....skin of them. they only eat deadskin (if you have been on a sunny holliday and your tan sheds of (old skin to fresh skin) they love that skin en will eat it safes you a terrible itch :D
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