70 gallon botia and rainbow tank

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Erik
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70 gallon botia and rainbow tank

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Here is new pic of my 70 gallon after harvesting a bucket of java ferne out it.
Loaches include, clowns,yoyos,histrionicas,darios,kubotais, and striatas.
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DROOL :shock:

Gorgeous tank :)

Is that a Kisser at the top?
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Thank:)
Yes that is Sam the kisser. I bought him in monet of weakness not realizing how fast he would grow...
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Nice shot of a great tank Erik.

You have a tank full of loaches and like my recent shot of the 90, nearly all are hiding on picture day:)

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Here's one that is older but actually shows lsome loaches:)
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Nice.

Man with all those stem plants, CO2, and 3.5wpg, you must be in there with the weedwacker weekly?!?!? We need to invent you a hydro driven weedwacker:)

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When I had hygrophelia in there it was deinitely a weekly wack hehe.

I could trim weekly now, but I like to let go to jungle. After that I trim into bunches and sell to my lfs for store credit (bloodworms). I use bulk diy fertilizers so my costs to run the tank is pretty low.
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Post by newshound »

was this the "tank of the month" at the planted tank.com?
I had it as the screen saver on my home computer for a bit. 8)
As the ppl at work say "loach freak" :twisted:
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Thanks for noticing. That was a while ago..
Here is that pic.
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All these pictures are great Erik, but the calendar one is just fabulous. Looks like the fish are professional models...great poses!

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Gorgeous tank!!!
I'm a big fan of the rainbow/loach combo.
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Thanks for posting the update Erik. I love to see the reincarnations of your tank ;-)
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Post by Erik »

Thanks Folks
It's in a state of change right now. I recently got some ludwigia repens(red) and some red cabomba furcata (also red).
When it is settled in I will be rescaping again:)
Right now all the plants are loach friendly which is something I have been looking for.
My plants are, onion plants, java ferns and moss, rotala indica, cabomba carolinia, cabomba furcata, Vallisneria americana 'Mini twister' and ludwigia repens.
I think the loaches actually appreciate the change. It also serves to makes sure territories are not to set.
Cheers
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Thanks Folks
It's in a state of change right now. I recently got some ludwigia repens(red) and some red cabomba furcata (also red).
When it is settled in I will be rescaping again:)
Right now all the plants are loach friendly which is something I have been looking for.
My plants are, onion plants, java ferns and moss, rotala indica, cabomba carolinia, cabomba furcata, Vallisneria americana 'Mini twister' and ludwigia repens.
I think the loaches actually appreciate the change. It also serves to makes sure territories are not to set.
Cheers
Erik
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Post by Spankenstyne »

Simply just awesome!

If it's not too much to ask, what are you looking at size wise and in numbers for those fish ? It just looks so darn perfect. I'd get so lost just staring into that for hours.

You guys are really turning me eye towards getting some rainbows to go with my future loaches. Any thoughts on if Tiger Barbs would also be alright with the rainbows or would they just be after them and stress them out?
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