Sidthimunki pics

[Mad Duff]

Some up to date photo's of some of my Sid's:








And this one possibly shows three generations of sid's together:

[mickthefish]

beautiful mate just beautiful.
one of our show boys had quite a few but only for showing, very similar looking to yours, but his were at maximum size.
i've still got a pic somewhere that has the very best sidthimunki i've ever seen another show fish, only i can't remember the guy's name who used to show it.
i'm sure the guys first name was Andy. Andy rush will say it if he sees this.

mick

[Bully]

Some beautiful specimens, they're obviously enjoying themselves

[mickthefish]

hey bud missed the other fish in the pics, is that a guntheri at the bottom of pic 2 and a nice pentazona mate.
and whats the loach in pic 3 is that another guntheri?.

mick
ps, you can't sneak other fish in without at least a mention.

[Mad Duff]

Yeah thats a Pentazona in pic 1 and a Guentheri in pic 3

[NancyD]

very good lookers!

[mickthefish]

Mark, the showman with the sid was Andy feast, you might remember his name from when you were a bit younger.
Andy rush has a pic of his fish, if i can get my hands on it, i can put it up on LOL.

mick

[Mad Duff]

The name doesn't ring a bell Mick, I did have a sid that was over 2" some years back and a friend Denise Wilson had one that was a touch smaller but slightly deeper bodied and we won quite a few shows between us with our sid's, my first ever best in show was with this sid and I also won the NEFAS supreme champion with it.

It shared a 4' tank with a pair of severums 2x 6" Tiger botias and 4x 6" Brycinus imberi and it used to make their lives hell, it was one feisty little loach

[mickthefish]

i was on the bell to Andy before mate and we both remembered a sid we saw at Chester Zoo, i could'nt believe my eye's bud there was a female in the display tank and she had to be 3 inches long SL.
and i'm not pulling your leg mate.
and it was a definite sid.

mick

[Mad Duff]

I do think that many years ago when they were wild fish coming through you could grow them to good sizes and big one did turn up every now and then.

[Emma Turner]

Stunning, MD. I wish mine were less shy. They only really appear at feeding time.

Emma

[CatsandFish]

Beautiful Sidht's indeed MadDuff

Hope to be giving mine a tank for themselves so they can
spawn some young.
I already spot a lot of pre spawning behaviour amongst them.
With all these other fish the eggs will never get a chance.

Any tankmates you can sugest to keep em active and happy ?
As they tend to get really reclusive if they,re the sole tank inhabitants.

[Mad Duff]

Any tankmates you can sugest to keep em active and happy ?

I have some Pangio species in with my sids and as dithers:

Puntius pentazona
Puntius Gelius
Danio Choprae
Trigonostigma heteromorpha
Trigonostigma espei

All of which are kept in groups of 6 minimum

[piggy4]

Absolutely superb pics of great looking Sid's

I think this is the only way to keep Sid's really ,I can tell by looking at your list of other fish that the Sid's are the top of the hirachy .

I was chatting with Mick last night and he said i would enjoy these pics


The guy who had the big show Sid was called Andy Feast , think he was a London fishkeeper

[mack]

Hi,
You Dwarf Loaches look loverly.
Hope to get some for myself soon.
mack