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Thanks all. I am sure enjoying watching both the kubs and sids. They are great loaches. They like watermelon and cucumber, but do not touch spinach. They tried cantaloupe, but did not seem to care for it.

those are lovely Kubs. good buy.

the problem you now face is that you will have to get hold of some B. Dario to go with your solitary one

similar thing happened here, i bought 5 histrionicas, one turned out to be a Kub. my lfs is due some Kubs next week so i 'have' to go buy 4 of them to keep my solitary one happy.

wouldn't it be a terrible shame is i had a B. rostrata by mistake

Lovely additions Keith!

Looking Excellent

Thanks all.

Yes KhuliKhilla, I will have to decide what to do about the lone Dario. So far he seems to have settled in nicely, but it would probably be better if he had some friends. I feel like the tank has enough fish and I don't want to overload it, so I am hesitant to had a few Darios. Also Emma has indicated that they may not get along well which makes me more hesitant. Since I am working towards a larger tank next Spring (after I finish remodeling the family room I need to add extra joists to the floor of the fish room (dining room) to support the weight), the problem may wait until then.

I'm not sure how relevant my experience was, as there was quite a large-sized group present (13) not just 4 or 5. I've only ever heard of one other person experiencing what I did too, so it's a difficult decision. If they did turn out to be little terrors, stripping down the tank to catch them out is not much fun!

Emma

The more the merrier right? lol.....nice looking guys! that dario is cute!

Thanks LO. They are all doing very well and getting a bit plump. I feed them frozen mysis shrimp, white mosquito larva, blood worms, brine shrimp, and occasionally Hikari sinking carnivore pellets, and dry flakes. With daily 10% water changes the water is completely stabilized at

PH: 6.5
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 6
KH: 20-40
TDS:90

I seem to have enough hiding places since they are out virtually all of the time. If I walk into the room they see me from 12 feet away and all swim to the end of the tank and want food. I feed them 3 times per day, but they would like more. They all interact well and are enjoyable to watch. They really do like the high current (3,000 gph in a 75 gallon tank) and play in the strongest current a lot. Also, as with Martin's tanks, there is no accumulation of anything on the sand because of the current.

Now that I have finished a home remodeling project, (I removed a 1,000 brick fireplace and put in a large bay window so now we can see the sunsets. Since the floor was already supported to hold the fireplace, I tried to talk my wife into a large aquarium there, but the bay window won out) I am getting ready to double up the joists under our living room to prepare for a large aquarium.

I'll try to get some pictures of my sids and kubs.

I have this lone dario that I adopted via LOL. It lives in with all my other loaches quite ok.



I note that earlier you complained about lack of manual focus on your camera. I've never ever used the manual focus on either of my digital cameras.
Your later pictures are definitely better

Martin.

Great picture Martin! I like my lone Dario, and I think that I will add two or three more if I can find some.

Yes, I really just need to work at taking pictures and to take lots of them.

In article about Botia Kubotai, I didn`t find any info about the water flow in their natural habitat? Fast river streams? Do they need strong current in tank, liki Chromobotias?

That is a good question which I have wondered about too. Hopefully someone can comment on the types of habitat that they originate from. It does seem very clear to me that they like the current so I would be very surprised if they did not come from fast moving streams.