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5ft Bookshelf Aquarium - River Scape

Took some photos this evening, love looking at the loaches close up, they have such personality.

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CooKieS said:
Nice pics!

A shame you Couldn't find some goby in your country, they would enjoy this tank
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Thanks! I do keep an eye out for Stiphodon in Australia but I dont think I will get lucky, I am actually going to start a tank shortly for Australia Desert Goby's (they wouldn't suit the river style tank)
 
Starting to get some nice green algae growth, here are some updated FTS, the loaches where sleeping / hiding, seem to only come out at the end of the light cycle / late at night, I have changed my light to stay on at 1% for two hours at the end of the cycle, gives me a good chance to watch the loaches scoot about.

Pretty sure dosing silica has helped with green algae growth. Still got dots of BBA around the place but I feel with the green algae growth its slowly smothering out some of the BBA.

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Congrats on the nice algae growth, I think it looks great :D
 
CooKieS said:
First Time I see someone happy with good algae growth ;):thumbup:
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Cheers, the loaches need the algae they seem like picky eaters, sometimes going for pellets or gel food set on rocks but often just ignore it and munch on the rocks, the more algae the better, but I am trying to not get to much BBA, but its a struggle.

tam said:
Congrats on the nice algae growth, I think it looks great :D
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Cheers, I like the green look on the rocks and im sure the loaches like it.
 
doylecolmdoyle said:
Cheers, the loaches need the algae they seem like picky eaters, sometimes going for pellets or gel food set on rocks but often just ignore it and munch on the rocks, the more algae the better, but I am trying to not get to much BBA, but its a struggle.



Cheers, I like the green look on the rocks and im sure the loaches like it.
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My algae has almost completely died out. I removed a ton of plants to help it out again. The rocks are still green though. I am going to have to up the light back up again as well. I don't know about your part of the world but we're suffering a heatwave here and the tank's water has been rather high for weeks now. The loaches are doing fine it seems.


sciencefiction said:
I got home today with 5 of these beauties below. They're very upset right now racing the tank. They were only delivered to the shop yesterday so perhaps not such a wise idea taking them in so early.....

They've got bright blue tails and I think they are Gastromyzon Zebrinis.

Look at my algae factory, ha, ha

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I bought 5 loaches now I got 6 of these. Yesterday I saw a baby :eek: I had to count several times as I could not believe it.
 
Edvet said:
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When i had loaches they surprised me with some young too, they where quite big when i first noticed them.
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Due to the nice weather I hadn't spent any time around the tanks at all for quite a while apart from the water changes which I always do, but just drain and fill, pre-filter sponge wash, etc.., and I literally drop the food without looking every day. The egeria densa was completely overgrown in this tank blocking the flow from one end, and there was some green slime algae on top of it, bubbling like crazy as well. I lucked out with a baby loach after all that.

That same group of loaches is extremely ougoing. They don't hide at all and are very eager dry fish food eaters. They also get on very well with the 3 Pseudogastromyzons, I guess that's due to the similar markings. The lot 9(used to be 8 :)) of them stay very close and literally stick together, always around the same area. My other group of G. Ctenocephalus,however, is totally skittish. I don't even know if all of them are alive. They always liked hiding under stones and still do. I do see them though, it's just that the behaviour is different.

I think the heat may have played a role in the breeding.
 
@sciencefiction wow congrats on the baby loach! I hope I may one see some fry / new loaches but I dont feel the tank is mature enough with free algae yet. Also I dont have sponges on my filter, in saying that I am getting many new baby shrimp so that gives me some hope.

RE the weather, I am in Perth, Australia, in summer its going to get very hot 30 - 40c I hope the heat doesn't effect the fish, I can cool my apartment with the aircon.
 
Well, if you have aircon then you should be fine. As far as the heat here, the fish are doing just fine. There's no abnormal behaviour. They're a bit hungrier than usual though and hyper active :D
I have a small tank near the window and the water was super hot in it, so hot, it prompted me too look around if the critters are alive. The tank is getting sunshine directly. The inhabitants are shrimp and snails. I thought they'd perish really but they're acting normal. It's really strange that shrimp can take such high heat as the same tank goes down to as low as 12-15C in the winter and the shrimp survive all year round. They're really tough little creatures.
 
In my short experience Sewelias are more hardy than Gastromyzon sp. when it comes to temperature.
 
Here is a bad iphone video I took today while doing a water change, i really like the water at this level but is a bit noisey, the loaches are hiding as I was just poking around in the tank.

 
Shot a nice long (10 minutes) video tonight, the loaches where out and about. Some of the focus isnt great as it was towards the end of my light cycle and had to use a low f-stop to expose the video

 
doylecolmdoyle said:
Took a few photos of the more illusive loaches with the lights out but flash on the camera, worked pretty well surprisingly. The big sewellia only comes out when the light is below 5%, interestingly the small sewellia is out and about pretty much all day.

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Great photos. The last GWCMM made me laugh. I dont know why haha
 
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