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teqvet
04-10-2009, 10:26 PM
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angelo21
04-10-2009, 10:27 PM
sweet botia!
ewurm
04-12-2009, 1:08 AM
That's a fat Striata, it looks awesome
teqvet
04-12-2009, 6:36 PM
That's a fat Striata, it looks awesome


There's 8 of them total. 7 of them are pretty 'fat' but 1 of them was small for the longest time. Didn't think he was gonna pull through but he's starting to eat now.. he went about 4 weeks when he did not eat anything at all and as a result is tinier still than th rest. he's adding some amss now though so it's good.

They're in with 4 juvie escondido, 1 gt, 4 fancy plecs, and 3 striped peacock eels right now.

2 50% water changes each week and I feed small amounts to everyone about 4-5 times a day. Diet ranges from hikari gold sinking, OSI flakes, algae wafers, frozen bloodworms, and frozen mysis shrimp.
scratanut
04-26-2009, 1:30 PM
Nice zebras? how big?
They are slow growers, at my place, they grew from 1.5-3.5" in nearly 2.5years, I have 6 of em....do they get any bigger?
Hao
04-27-2009, 11:58 PM
looks cool
gomezladdams
04-28-2009, 12:06 AM
Great looking loaches!I have a school of 7 striata and think they are the most fun loach.
zerojquan85
04-28-2009, 12:39 AM
i have two clowns.. but they dont seem to grow much... i guess i'll start feedin them more of a meaty diet... rather than just algae walfers..
teqvet
04-29-2009, 2:33 PM
Nice zebras? how big?
They are slow growers, at my place, they grew from 1.5-3.5" in nearly 2.5years, I have 6 of em....do they get any bigger?


Mine aren't slow growing at all, much to the contrary of all the reports I have seen. They wre 1.5-2" when I initially got them I think and are now easily at the 3.5" TL mark. Good diet and constant water changes maybe? I don't know.