These are Yo-Yo's I think B. lohachata, though I read somewhere that there
are 2 similar loaches going under this name. I have a terrible mind for
remembering names, it's an embarassment for me, but I'm sure when Peter hits
the computer again he can verify the type. The others are striatas.
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, "Bruce Hansen" <bhansen at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>Thank goodness someone has a topic, any topic (even "foreign" fish is
>better than dearth :))
Since our 2 biggest SPAMers are on vacation with you all down under the list
has gotten pretty quit. :) I will send another less pleasant question in a
bit just to keep the mail flow coming in.
>Baensch ( 1) p370 they spawn in fast flowing spring-fed streams in the
>rainy season and the fry grow up in the lower slower reaches. I guess a
>decent power head or two could approximate this. It often gets fish
>schooling and .swimmimg into the current flow. If you get them to spawn
>then probably the parents should be removed and the flow turned off.
Let's see now who do I know that just got loads of fish equipment? Say Julie
got a spare power head or 2 I could borrow for a while?
>I heard of one guy who did get Clown Loaches to spawn but the eggs were
>infertile, he thinks because his males were much younger than the females
>and also the females were heavy with eggs for a long time (? more than a
>year)
Maybe I'll be luckier as clowns are so much larger than these. And the two I
think are full of eggs, I only noticed as being so heavy a few days ago.
>He used a small group, 5 or 6 I think, in a 6 foot tank and tried to copy
>nature by reducing the water level, adding leaves and silt, feeding
>heavily on worms and keeping the temperature up.
No problems keeping the temp up, it's lowering it that will be the problem.
If I bring the tank in the house I can lower it but where can I put it to
keep the kids out of it? I'm not sure how many there are they zip around so
much I think there are 10 or so, guess Peter can fill us in on that one too.
>Then he did a lot of water changes with softer-slightly cooler water and
>raised the water level and away they went. From memory there were thousands
>of eggs scattered that all went white. He plans to try again when summer
>is here again.
>
>Please keep us posted. ---------
It's hard to decide exactly what to try. I'd hate to screw it up. I guess
considering it seems the only one that anyone has had any luck at all with
were clowns that anything I do will be at least some added information. I
just think it would be so exciting if they do. Of course if they do lay
eggs, I'll be too tense to ever sleep again until they hatch and then until
the fry get some size.
You hear people talking about how stress relieving fish keeping is. I'm
constantly stressed with them. I mean I love my fish, anyone that spends
this much time with them has to. But I'm constantly stressing that fish
someone sends me will die, or the fish I've been watching for Peter will die
(several sadly have), or something will happen to my fry or breeders, or any
number of other maladies may affect them, or I'm stressing because I haven't
done enough water changes (just did a bunch so I'm happily caught up). Then
there is the stupid new 10 gallon I bought a couple weeks ago, set up, added
fish, then found today that it has a tiny leak, that sent little drops of
water, in my living room, down the wrought iron stand that rusted on my
light grey carpeting, urrgh. The joys of fish keeping. :)
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