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Posted by Gail Futoran on March 13, 2007, 11:45 am
Please log in for more thread options > Gail Futoran wrote:
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>> I've tried Pandas but killed them off. Not
>> sure what the problem was.
>
> I've heard that they can be delicate and will confess to having
> killed off a few myself :-( I put it down to them not being able to
> compete with the Clown and Yoyo Loaches for food.....one day I will
> try them again. The only cories we have right now are a trio of
> Bronze Cories in my son's tank....
I have speckled Cories (I'm blanking on
their actual names) in with the YoYos and
the Cories do just fine. As do the Otos.
I probably tend to overfeed.
>> YoYos are certainly very active! They are my
>> kittens' favorite entertainment besides catnip
>> toys. Fortunately the tops on the tanks are
>> quite secure. :)
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> My cat goes nuts watching the Clown Loaches.....
I'll bet they do! I have 6 cats, and it's only
the two kittens (now rather old kittens -
about 9 months) that use the tanks as a
kitten entertainment center. I suppose the
adult cats (2-6 years of age) are too
dignified for that. :)
>> Yep, I love the bottom feeders, mostly I
>> suspect because they are pretty hardy.
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> Well, once established yes....I had quite a few losses when I first
> > started to keep Yoyos....and just don't talk to me about Clown
> Loaches and ich :-(
Never had Clowns. Skunk botias do very
well in my tanks. I lost one once that got
stuck in an ornament before I noticed what
was going on, otherwise they just keep
chugging along. They do a nice job of
keeping the snails to a manageable level.
The kuhli loaches in my 30G are useless
in that regard (snails), but are so much fun
to watch I don't really care.
> I have also given up on the Dwarf Gouramis....but I did actually
> manage to instigate some research by Practical Fishkeeping Magazine
> as to why these fish are so short lived....the links are:-
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> http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/blog.php?blogid=66
> http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1139
Thanks for the links. I hadn't known about
that virus. It could explain why I kept
losing dwarf gouramis. My water tends to
be on the hard side, and that might also be
a contributing factor.
> It has taken over 2 years for me to be happy with the fish mix - the
> tank has had a number of "configurations" fishwise - some down to
> deaths but also on a more positive note through my moving
> them......what I did was replace any losses with fish that I thought
> would fit in with the plants rather than buying the same fish over
> and over.....
>
> Gill
Sounds like the process I went through.
I started out with a non-planted 10 gallon
and over the years upgraded to the
planted tanks I now have. Probably the
only fish species that stayed the same were
the cories.
A neat thing about reading these newsgroups
is that I got introduced to fish that I never
heard of before, that are common fish,
and do very well in my conditions. E.g.,
otocinclus and skunk botia. I believe I
also got into planted tanks by reading the
newsgroups. It's a cool hobby, whatever
choices one makes about plants & fish.
Gail
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