any one here with butterfly loaches
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Hey, I have 5 of them in a tank to themselves. I feed them crushed Hikari Cichlid Gild, Tetra Bits and intend to get some sinking algae wafers too. The trick is crushing the pellets, so that the fragments are pretty small. These guys are used to eating the algae and micro organisms that grow along with it covering rocks, that are generally pretty small. If you ovserve closely, you can see them eat. They go nuts when I drop the pellets in.
Do share some pics when you get the chance to.
I have twenty four or so in a forty gallon river manifold tank. I started with five. After they started reproducing I added panda garra and the baby production turned off. They were more fun to watch before the panda garra, more fighting and the constant search for the tiny young ones.
The p. garra are a hoot so I don't feel like I'm missing out. They are fed Rapashy and of course they graze all the time.
The p. garra are a hoot so I don't feel like I'm missing out. They are fed Rapashy and of course they graze all the time.
Nice, do share some pics if possible. I added 4 more gastromyzon species to the existing 5 sewellia species. I need to upgrade the tank though. They are in a species only tank as of now.
Those are actually pretty good pics, especially for a phone. I have to post some more before I can link to my photos.
I like those shots! Remember, it's not the camera
I have my hillstream loaches in a dedicated high flow setup. I never see them anything directly except for the occasional massivore or algae pellet I drop in. Mostly they eat the aufwuchs (biofilm growth)...Mine are also in a stream manifold tank. It was originally set up for the hillstream loaches but as I said I added panda garra. Since then I have added rosey barbs and red panda barbs. My sumo loaches are in a 125 gallon manifold set up with barillius canarensis, clown barbs and mascara barbs.
The hillstream loaches and panda garra are fed Rapashy soilent green and sinking veggie tablets. Of course they graze the rocks constantly as do the garra.
The hillstream loaches and panda garra are fed Rapashy soilent green and sinking veggie tablets. Of course they graze the rocks constantly as do the garra.
Ooh I have panda garra too! One of my faves! Just set up a manifold tank as well, but a lot smaller (75G). I'm looking into sumos and also stream gobies to add. I have sewellia, gastromyzon loaches. White clouds and some shrimp