New Loach Photos

[mikev]

Acclimating them, three weeks ago:

in motion:

In the last photo, the crazy dance is caused by the bloodworms; they learned that some bloodworms can be found on the waterline, or a little above it, so after every meal they now check the waterline...several times

 

[Lateral Line]

Are they confuzona Mike? Look great, that last picture looks like coreography!

 

[mikev]

Yep, H.Confuzona's. All oversized (beyond the "species limit" in various profiles), just like your Yoyo's.

Choreography was an accident...they are really intense when feeding, but usually they simply run all over the place in crazy ways and bumping each other.

 

[pangalaticgargleblaster]

nice lizard loaches

 

[mikev]

One of the other new chaps:

 

[mikev]

 

[CrashingWaves]

Why not just make me drool! Beautiful loaches, I wish I had some like them . This stupid area has almost nothing for fish selection...very annoying.

God Bless,
Joshua

 

[mikev]

Thank you.

a few more:

(LL, if you are reading this: notice the width of the Confuzona on the left. For reasons unclear, it started rapidly increasing both the width and the girth the moment I moved them from a qtank to a larger one...right now it is about 33% wider than the others, and they are no skinny either. Either really obese or really gravid...hard to know).

Here is a more conventional fish for a change, the kind that is all over the stores:

 

[mikev]

 

[rmanpf]

Those are beautiful loaches!

 

[mikev]

Thanks, rmanpf!

The kid clown on the last photo is incidentally a "freak" too, it is the bottom one on the photo below

The middle stripe is two ovals, does not cover the spine....hopefully this will become more pronounced as he grows. His job was to induce the large clowns to come out more...instead, he chose to bundle with the big Spot.

Here is another one:



The fellow on top is too afraid to come out and join the meal...

 

[mikev]

 

[Barracuda518]

Nice pictures. I see this thread is from last year. How are all the loaches doing? Did you get those from Frank?

I got 6 B. striata today, best Ive seen in a while.

 

[mikev]

Some from Frank, some other sources.
Most of them are fine. I lost two Confuzona's around January -- progressive weight loss. If you look at the photo on this thread, showing them in a container, some already had the head wider than the body. But the remaining four are fine, two are now ultra-gravid females. I should post photos sometimes, a 3" hillstream with a body more than a 0.5" in diameter is a serious fish...larger than many of my Zebra's. I think they are getting fat on Sewellia eggs or fry...
The rest I believe are all ok, but some are scarce...the kuhlis are nocturnal, the maassi's live in their caves, the termalis are the only ones I see more or less every time, but even they developed nasty habits: burrow into the sand with only eyes sticking out.
The tank they are in has only one prominent fish: those obnoxious orange/black South American things we talked on the other thread about...They are everywhere and push loaches around

Oh, if you want to see the latest chaps in operation, here is a clip.
[URL="http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0bqNj6k9wo"]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0bqNj6k9wo[/URL]
They were playing polo with a wafer, the photo above shows the winner of this match.

Congrats & best of luck on Zebra's.... Show when you get pics. My B.Striata's share the tank with Kubs...13 of each species. Surprisingly peaceful and everyone is growing despite crowded quarters...

APPEND. This one is too pixelated, but gives an idea of the Zebra/Kub zoo:

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2yxnTiQERQ

 

[mikev]

This is what I meant:

Can you guess which one is the girl?