Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2014 17:28:11 GMT -5
Greetings All,
In another post, I promised to post good sites I have found for freshwater fish. Here is one I refer to all the time for botias and loaches:
www.loaches.com/
I didn't have much success with clown loaches. My hubby wanted me to buy them. Now that I have water that is ideal for them, maybe I will buy some again sometime. I can move them to my 75 gallon when they get too big. It would be nice if more pet stores carried the very nice, less aggressive smaller varieties.
Right now, I have three Burmese Border Botias (also known as Angelicus) - two are full grown and one is a youngster. I have three YoYo loaches - one full grown and two teenagers. All YoYo loaches are temporarily in my ten gallon. The full grown needs to move to the 20 gallon high. In my 20 gallon extra high, I have three Striata botias (also called zebra botia).
Loaches and botias are so entertaining. YoYo loaches, Burmese Border botias and Striata botias are not nearly as aggressive as clown loaches can be.
In another post, I promised to post good sites I have found for freshwater fish. Here is one I refer to all the time for botias and loaches:
www.loaches.com/
I didn't have much success with clown loaches. My hubby wanted me to buy them. Now that I have water that is ideal for them, maybe I will buy some again sometime. I can move them to my 75 gallon when they get too big. It would be nice if more pet stores carried the very nice, less aggressive smaller varieties.
Right now, I have three Burmese Border Botias (also known as Angelicus) - two are full grown and one is a youngster. I have three YoYo loaches - one full grown and two teenagers. All YoYo loaches are temporarily in my ten gallon. The full grown needs to move to the 20 gallon high. In my 20 gallon extra high, I have three Striata botias (also called zebra botia).
Loaches and botias are so entertaining. YoYo loaches, Burmese Border botias and Striata botias are not nearly as aggressive as clown loaches can be.
. I had all my others when I lived in California, and don't remember ever having any problems/sickness with them. The last one I had there (I don't remember how long I had him) I got as a juvenile. I had him in my 15G tank, with Aqua-colored quartz gravel and I never saw any injuries on him 
. When I moved out here (IL), I was going to give that tank to my girlfriend (but her Mom gave her another tank), so I emptied it of all but a couple of inches of water (after removing the fish for her), to prepare it to move to my brother's. He thought he might get some fish, so I didn't tear it down completely. I hadn't seen my horseface (Theophilus) for quite a while, so thought I might have lost him, but when we were moving the tank, he showed himself--still doing great and ~5" long 
! At that time (CA), when I kept fish I only used plastic plants, quartz gravel and a box filter. We only had chlorinated water back then so the only water conditioner I used was Jungle's InstaChlor (and you only had to add drops per gallon with it, as opposed to tsp with Start Right). Also (mid-70's), that was the 1st tank I ever got, and fluorescent lights were a new thing, and came with a separate ballast attached to the cord.
