Try the edit!

just like people huh

I like the botia's in there! is that b.lohachata?

My experience is that they will prefer to stay around the wood. I have a whole bunch of wood stacked up in the tank. And the panaques are rarely on the filter or on the styroform back.

Leaving the discussion aside whether or not your tank is overstocked. There are many corydoras species which are quite small and fun to look at, most are pretty hardy fish, which can stand lower temperatures. I've heard of common pleco's withstanding pretty low temperaturs, but these will also get ...

Depending on the genes of the male of course, you will only have 25% albino ofspring, if both parents are brown, but both have the albino gene.

I feed mine yams (zoete aardappel ) raw. Most of my pleco's like it, but my maccus's love it! You can cook it shortly, but these guys can chew bits off a raw piece just fine.

Yup, panaque maccus.

Looks strange without the eye!

The botia hymnophysa's that i have had, were very aggressive.

I was happier with the lohachata's. These were a lot friendlier.

Never had striata's.

Do they lose their stripes to spots when they get older?

How about leaving it empty?

I prefer wood stacked up to the top to having the whole bottom covered. Gives the tank more height and depth.

How about trying a school of these

If you have them in a fair sized group, they are really cool.

I have always liked the sleek looks of this fish, in combination with the subtle coloring.
Mine are happy eating flakes. I do remember that it took mine about twoo weeks to adjust to his new surroundings!

Maybe yours is still shy.

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I checked them out here http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/botia_sp_myanmar.html cool fish, have'nt seen them here in holland yet. Most places that have botia's don't offer many species. This a shame, they are very interesting and playful fish,appart from the aggressive ones, and the imho boring ...

Dont know about the gender of the pleco, but is that a botia rostrata in the back?

sounds pretty hectic.
great job on healing them!

and this info is definately gonna help some of us!

muchas gracias

My guess is that is a queen arabesque.

juveniles have a lot less stripes than the adults, same goes for the L066.

A good looking cat anyhow!

somewhere in 1996 i bought three of these http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/botia_almorhae.html One was murdered bij a Convict breeding pair. But the other two are doing fine, I added 3 younger ones, so I have a group of 5 now. It hit me that these little fish are now over 10 years in age! They ...

toss a piece of cucmber near him (weighted down, with a teaspoon for example)
He should be out soon enough.

Bennyvis

Holgen in Den Haag is a store with a lot of L-numbers. http://www.xs4all.nl/~holgen/index2.htm

I know they have L204 and peckoltia vittata at the moment.

But then, that is probably pretty far from Obbicht

No good pics available. Making good pictures has been on my todo list for a long time

Nice!

I really like heavily planted tanks.

Yours looks natural as well.

Great looking tank by the way! I like that you have a heavily planted tank in combination with a lot of wood.

Post some pics of the whole tank!

If you don't mind having different kinds of wood, put in many different kinds, let the fish decide what they like. You have a cool looking tank and the fish a happy, good tasting home

If you 'cover the floor' with wood, you'll have a hard time cleaning it. I try to stack the wood up against the back. Add plants in the front so there is also free swimming place near the bottom. It also gives your tank more depth. But to actually answer your question: if you use thinner pieces of ...

I have 5 yoyo's. Have 'em for nearly ten years now! They are extremely playful and every now and then they show the behaviour you describe. In my case it has never hurt the other fish. The loaches always quit when the other fish quiets down. Never figured out why they do it. It seems more playful ...

I have kept striped raphaels together with a couple of banjo's. I had trouble feeding the banjo's, as the raphaels scorged everything down in less than a minute. I mostly fed pellets, i don'tknow if there are foods that the banjo's eat, which the raphaels will ignore. I ended up removing the ...

Any idea of which ancistrus it is?

I used to have other plants, which the fish (especially the loaches) used to hang on the leaves.

They seem to avoid the java ferns, they dont like coming near it, but they will lie on the anubias.

Same for the small BN's, they also seem to spend less time on the java ferns.