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palaeodave wrote:I hate you How big is the setup you have for them?

Your not the first person to say they hate me today

They are in a 44 gallon rivertank setup at the moment but the wife has decided that she really likes them and I have talked her into letting me have a 6ft - 150 gallon rivertank when we change the living room around

Oh my god! That will be amazing! We've finally caved and are looking into setting up a hillstream tank - and it's this thread that has broken our will power! Do you think a rio 180 with a manifold could be an appropriate set-up for some of these?

I think a Rio 180 should be fine dave, Im glad you have given in at last

On a long enough timeline, everyones' resistance rate drops to zero.

You are assimilated.......



Martin.

There beautiful mad duff I also picked up some last wkend from a lfs £6 each, 2 for £10 mine to are around 2" plus, probably from the same supplier unfortunatly they only had 4 left.

mine do seem quite shy lurcking between rocks or under driftwood most of the time. I've always wanted to keep some Homaloptera and this was the first time I've seen them locally and I have to say them are the most attractive hillstream loach ever!

Yeah my 20 are very shy at the moment as well, yesterday you wouldn't even have known there were any in the tank let alone 20

Were abouts are you located

I'm from Nottingham, I was really surprised the place had these as they usually only have fairly common fish also picked up some tiny S. lineolata labeled as cold water plecs for just 4.99 to.

heres a couple of photos of the most outgoing Homaloptera




There seem to be quite a difference in the base skin colour of mine a couple are sort of a creamy colour whilst the others a a light brown, is this common?

Martin, I cannot tell you how nice it is to finally hear you say that to me! I knew this day would come...

we were weak!

we couldnt resist any longer. H. confuzona, S. lineolata, crystal cherry shrimp and white cloud mountain minnows all pencilled in for the new pad.

Mine tend not to be that shy. I still haven't figured out how to post pic here yet. I do have a thread at AC, with pics of mine.

Here is a photo to illustrate the colour difference I mentioned.

Yeah I have quite a few colour variations among the 20 I have, I have one that has a greenish tinge to it.

Yes though you have been a little quiet of late , its apparent you've lost none of your good taste and eagle eye for a good buy !

piggy4 wrote:Yes though you have been a little quiet of late , its apparent you've lost none of your good taste and eagle eye for a good buy !

They weren't the only bargains I got Andy, I got ten 2" Devario devario for £10 and five 2"+ Panda Garra for £20. The guy also kept catching the Ruby Barbs that were in the tank with the Garra so I said I wanted 4 females, I ended up with 4 females and a male and he forgot to charge me for them

I guess that was just my lucky day, I really should have put the lottery on afterwards or would that have seemed greedy