55 gal Sewellia River tank

[Bpweitzm]

About a year ago I posted about my homemade river tank with powerheads and all that jazz in a 30 gal for Sewellia lineolata. Well I recently moved my 8 hillstreams into a 55 gal mock-river setup, where my filter provides a current through the tank.

I started with 4 S. lineolata-reticulated and 4 S. lineolata-spotted.

I know have nearly 100 sewellia in total! They are breeding like mad. I also have about 15 zebra danios, 6 white clouds, and 3 lg hatchet fish. I am thinking I need to remove the danios and possibly white clouds as I think they are munching on little sewellia. The hatchet fish stay at the surface and never bug the loaches but I've seen the little danios down in the rocks picking at the substrate.

I've got a few pics of some fry and the new tank... I hope you enjoy!



neat perspective to the "boulder pile"


fry on wood


Adult with assassin snail


The New 55 setup - all live plants, propagated or grown from pods


adult Sewellia


The old River Tank

 

[malfunkshun]

Can you post the setup of the tank that the sewellias are breeding in, current (gph), pH, temperature etc? It would make me a very happy camper

 

[Bpweitzm]

They are breeding in the 55 shown above. They started breeding in a small 10 gallon that I was housing them in for a month while I moved (just Sewellia). They are continuing to breed. The flow is whatever my Fluval 305 spits out, the 10 gal they started breeding in had just HOB. These fish have proven very hardy and great fish. I'll try to get parameters for you in the next week or so.

I just have the tank at room temp and no heater. I live in Santa Cruz, CA and we have pretty hard water here. Hope this helps a bit.

ALSO, i had 8 sewellia for 2 years that never bred, when a friend gave me one to house temporarily they bred like mad. I'm not sure the trigger but now they are like bunnies!

 

[malfunkshun]

Thank you!

I have about 8 S. lineolata at the moment, getting another 5 this thursday. Have not really tried to breed them before but I've always wanted to give it a shot. I've already succeeded with breeding P. kuhlii so this species is next on the list ^^

I have read some breeding reports and it seems that a minimum in water flow is one of the triggers. Perhaps a drop in temperature too. I have to investigate

 

[Oddballfanatic]

Amazing. I really wish I had a tank like that.

 

[aquaponicpaw]

Show quality tank. Nice that you are being rewarded.