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Thanks, my friends!

These last phtos are not so good cause lights were not on yet. I set them to turn on about lunch time. Anyway I could get all 23 Clown Loaches on this tank in a single shot!

WOW Marco,
that is a BEAUTIFUL tank...
Is there really only one type of plant in there?
...and all those loaches leave them alone, that is NICE.

I think it is interesting that the red tailed shark does so well with all the loaches. Do you get any agression out of that fish?
What is the large green fish...is it a Demsey ( I suck at cichilids!)

anyway, thanks for the shots! it is an inspiration!

Hi glenna,

At this very time there is only Anubia gigantea as plant in this tank, but my loaches don´t leave it alone. They have big holes!

The only fish my red tailed shark boders is the CAE.

The Jack Dempsey is no longer there. He died, stuck with an albino Cory in his mouth.

wow, that's lots of food, no wonder your clowns look so happy.

I feed mine with OmegaOne flakes, shrimp pellets and freeze dried brine shrimp along with medium sinking pellet and algae wafers from New Life Spectrum. I highly recommend New Life stuff. My clowns noticably grown larger after start eating their food.

New photos:

Stripeless Clown and am adult Cardinal Neon for size compare:


With another Clown loach (about 2.5") and striata:


"Stonehenge":


Red tailed shark and striata:


Tree out of four of my Discus:

Added an extra circulating pump on my tank:




It´s a 5.000 L/h SunSun. now, circulation is 13000 L/hand looks like Loaches liked it:

wow exactly how many fish do you have in there? It's an amazing tank and so beautiful.

Hi Sawyer,

Whole fauna is listed on first page on tank setup. Go there and take a look!

Made some modifications here on both tanks. Moved my 6 smallest Clown loaches from 200 liter to 450 liter tank and moved the 3 sidhimunki to there. To do that, had to take most decor out of both tanks to capture the fish.
Also took my Rivertank out from tank as it was consuming lots of energy and heating the water (remember I live in Rio de Janeiro and room temperature here is never bellow 28°C). Since I installed the 5,000 liter/hour circulating pump I had turned off the Rivertank.

The removal of Rivertank manifold:






24 hours later, water was not still 100% clear and fishes were still a bit shy but things soon started to go back as it was.

Tank with cloudy water:



Shy Clown loaches on their pipes:


16 Loaches:


20 Loaches:


23 Loaches:


Few shots of my Discus also:

Very nice Marcos. Your fish and tanks look great as always.

Nice marcos. DO you want to mix your loaches with other fish that live on the top or on the middle of the tank?
Actually you have already got a verey beatiful tank!!

Thanks Keith!

Hi tonzz,

My goal is having a monospecie tank for (who knows) trying breading. So, I would take out other non Clown loaches rather than adding new ones.

Gorgeous fish as ever Marcos

Marcos Mataratzis wrote: My goal is having a monospecie tank for (who knows) trying breading. So, I would take out other non Clown loaches rather than adding new ones.

Good luck with that!!

i have another question, is it ok to put siamese algae with chinese algae and red tailed shark? I put them together, and the redtailed shark bully the siamese algae.. tq b4

CAE with SAE is ok but red tailled shark hates SAE. I had to move them to other tank.