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Posted: **Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:46 am**

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:

Posted: **Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:20 am**

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

Posted: **Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:15 am**

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!!

Posted: **Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:15 am**

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.

Posted: **Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:44 am**

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!!

Posted: **Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:46 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:18 am**

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

Posted: **Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:26 pm**

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.

consider some livebearers or smaller breeding fish to get some hormones in the water. the only time I've seen my large clowns interested in each other was with guppies in the tank.

also, the new tank setup looks great and you're stripeless clown is adorable! i got a new clown two weeks ago whos center stripe only goes about 1/4 of the way down on either side of his body; they look quite similar

Posted: **Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:43 pm**

Thanks for the look ahead PASoracco. I´ll think on that in the future.

Posted: **Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:53 am**

Your tank is stunning Marcos! It's basically the same setup as I'm planning, minus the discus. Just not sure if I want Botia Kubotai or Botia Striata yet. After seeing your tank I definately lean towards Striata, but I change my mind everyday! How's the redtail with the loaches? Any fighting between them? We had a redtail until a couple of days ago when we decided to get rid of him. He stressed out our balas, forcing them to swim in the right side of the tank so he could have the left to himself. The tank is much calmer without him, and we traded him in for an ancistrus to go in our small tank.

Posted: **Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:45 am**

Hi Jonas,

Red tailed sharks are very territorial and will fight any fish similar to them - meaning body shape. That´s why they hate SAE or Bala sharks. No isues with Clown loaches. I have had about 4 or 5 Red tailed sharks for last 20 years in every loach tank I had.

About Discus and other loaches, I made some changes here recently and divided fishes on my two tanks. Fauna now is:

200 liter tank:
5 morleti
5 striata
3 sidthimunki
4 Discus
9 cardinal Neon
1 CAE
1 SAE

450 liter:
29 Clown
5 YoYo
1 kubotai
1 modesta
1 Red tailed shark
2 CAE

Some fresh shots taken this morning (sorry... lights off)

21 loaches:

12 loaches:

#3 (former #2) and Mr. Big Botia (right):

Funny kubotai:

Cheers!

Posted: **Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:14 pm**

Marcos, what are the black tubes in your aquarium?

Posted: **Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:38 pm**

They are Polietilene pipes, used as "caves" for my Clowns. They love to stay and rest into them.

Posted: **Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:53 pm**

A few more shots taken today:

21 loaches:

20 loaches:

15 loaches:

Here, just for size compare, my adult red tailed shark and my #4 Clown loach:

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:48 pm**

hi folks!

some fresh news here. first my new portrait recently painted by my friend Rosana, same that painted my other Botia picture:

Also, we got a second cat here. Meet Sheldon:

Does anybody think I´ll have some troble with him and tanks when he gets older?

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