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That looks fantastic, Chris! I see the H. confuzona are still doing well.

LES.. - just get a plumber in to move that radiator, shouldn't cost too much. Go on, you know you want to!!!

Emma

Thanks to everyone for viewing my post and your comments. I will address each question.

Yes there is 384 watts of light. I wanted to make sure there was at least 2 watts per gallon.

I am looking into raising the lights off of the canopy.

Jim, I agree with your findings of Homaloptera yunnanensis. Its what I have thought for quite some time.

I had to take down a staircase and lower the tank with a highjack. While I was at it I took my gun safe and 150 tall downstairs. These tanks are going to be walled in with bookcases around them. "eventually"

Drip system water changes are also in the future for both tanks.

I really appreciate everyones comments. I am trying to give these fish a haven to live in. Like home away from home.

Has anyone used the saltwater algea feeds, brown and red algea frozen platers???

This is something I would like to try.

Thursday I am off to get my FX5 for the Amazon 150 tank I have some pictures of each species of cory but my time is limited and photobucket is slow. Biotodoma look to be ready to lay some eggs and are doing the teritory thing.

Everything is working the way its supposed to now and the tank is cleaning up well. I added some more fine brown sand as well as some more airation and flow.


Sewellia out for a roam


Sewellia with a Beufortia chaser


Homaloptera yunnanensis as Jim and I have summised chilling with Lepidocephalichthys guntea and Pseudogastromyzon cheni


View from the top. Two Confuzona, One Noemacheilus scaturigina, and another loach that I cant put a finger on what it is. Ideas?


Here is the best side on shot of mystery loach I have ever gotten. I have two that came in with Aborichthys sp. They stuck out like a sore thumb and I have had them since March. They are devistatingly fast!


Very light Confuzona. Out of the ones I have two always look this light shade.


There are 7 loaches in this picture. When I took these photos the room lights were out and I guess the fish could not see out. Ridens, Dahli, Confuzona, Tweediei, Unknown, And a sneaky weathered.


The river with the room lights out. When I get my best pictures

Very nice mate. wish i had the room for one

Could this be your mystery guy?
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=3071

Very nice indeed!

Jim could be right, the facal size looks the same.

Jim once again I believe you are correct. I am going to move a few fish out of the river tank, giving them to a friend. They are the SAE and Flying Fox. The SAE has been a real bastard since moving into the river tank.

I keep adding some more ultra fine brown sand as I think it not only looks nice but the areas that it is in are frequented by the Sewellia.

I wish I was a photo shop master because I caught a Sewellia arial battle in progress, but the glare obscures the action. They had a burrow dug out of the sand by the time they had finished. About ten minutes of on and off butting and fluttering.

Oh and Jim I once found the smaller of the two Savona in the riser under the air stone of an undergravel filter. He was all scared up but made it. I have still never figured out how it got there.

Glad I could help. I have a couple savona myself. They are fiesty little guys. I can imagine one wanting in the uplift tube, but I can't figure how one would get there either.
Its interesting that Sewellia seem to enjoy sand. Others have reported the same thing. It must be the common substrate in their home streams.

I am now looking to add some more Loaches. Any suggestions?

I would like some more Confuzona and Sewellia
A couple more Choprae as dither

Some Aborichthys elongatus would add something else to adore!

what all do you have in there? I keep forgetting.

Jim

There are the following fish living in the river tank
3 Aborichthys sp
2 Beaufortia kweichowensis
2 Botia striata
4 Gastromyzon ctenocephalus
3 Gastromyzon ridens
7 Homaloptera confuzona
2 Homaloptera smithi
5 Homaloptera tweediei
2 Homaloptera yunnanensis
1 Lepidocephalichthys guntea
5 Misgurnus mizolepis
2 Nemacheilus notostigma or Schistura savona?
4 Noemacheilus scaturigina
4 Pseudogastromyzon cheni
3 Schistura sexcauda
6 Sewellia Lineolata
6 Danio Choprea

Thats around 70 fish "sheesh" I wish I hadnt added all of that up!

I do still want to add more Choprae, Sewellia, Beufortia, and Confuzona.

Any thoughts?

Wish I could find Parclitella or Orthogoniata

Wow!! That's quite a list!!
I would definately add more choprae. A large school would look very nice. Danio kyathit would be a nice choice, too.
How can you argue with more more Sewellia and Confuzona? As for Parcellata and Orthogoniata, they are so similar to Confuzona that I wouldn't fret about not finding them. I'm just jealous. I would be happy to have Confuzona again.
Other than what you have, I really can't think of anything else...maybe some Gastromyzon ocellatus.

2 Nemacheilus notostigma or Schistura savona This is the fish that you Id'ed I was looking and the eye position on Schistrua seems lower and larger.
I have followed Franks uber river tank with great interest as we set ours up on almost the same weekend. You mentioned freshwater shrimp and crays. This has my interest but when I spoke to my alot better half she wasnt too keen on it. I am also wondering about the lower temp limit of this tank. Right now I do not have a chiller on it and it seems to float between 72.5 and 74.8, in the same day. The lights generate alot more heat on this tank for some reason and the heating coresponds with night and day.
I am worried that this is stressing my tank inhabitants. When I add my chiller what should I set my low limit at??? How cold is too cold?

I have noticed that my choprae are the happiest around 69F

What do you have in your loach tanks???

The temp range you have seems fine to me.