Alien Anna
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Hi Everyone,
well I got the chain botias (aka "chain loaches") from Tri-Mar. Sadly, since I released them into the tank I have only seen two of them. I'm worried that the third may have been crushed in the filter or something but they are very, very tiny and one could be hiding anywhere. I had been told they were about an inch long but I still visualised them as somehow fatter - they looked big in the photo!
Anyway, my fears for my apple snails seem a bit silly now. The chain botias are about 1/10th the size of the snails and I think they might have trouble with a baby wild trumpet snail, let alone a golfball sized apple snail. In fact, at one point I was worried the apple snail was going to injure the baby botia!
When I can afford it and Tri-mar have some in I might get some more. They are schooling fish, after all. They do grow to about 2" long but since that's 2" long and very skinny, they don't take up anywhere near the space I imagined. They are a bit stressed after their journey. The largest of the three is swimming about fairly happily but the middle-sized one spent his first few hours lying on his side, panting. He's now swimming more normally.
P.S. A "dead" cardinal has turned up, alive and not actually dead but swimming in an alarming fashion. He may make it till morning, you never know
well I got the chain botias (aka "chain loaches") from Tri-Mar. Sadly, since I released them into the tank I have only seen two of them. I'm worried that the third may have been crushed in the filter or something but they are very, very tiny and one could be hiding anywhere. I had been told they were about an inch long but I still visualised them as somehow fatter - they looked big in the photo!
Anyway, my fears for my apple snails seem a bit silly now. The chain botias are about 1/10th the size of the snails and I think they might have trouble with a baby wild trumpet snail, let alone a golfball sized apple snail. In fact, at one point I was worried the apple snail was going to injure the baby botia!
When I can afford it and Tri-mar have some in I might get some more. They are schooling fish, after all. They do grow to about 2" long but since that's 2" long and very skinny, they don't take up anywhere near the space I imagined. They are a bit stressed after their journey. The largest of the three is swimming about fairly happily but the middle-sized one spent his first few hours lying on his side, panting. He's now swimming more normally.
P.S. A "dead" cardinal has turned up, alive and not actually dead but swimming in an alarming fashion. He may make it till morning, you never know