Tropical weather

[Dragonslair]

My daughter came home Friday with two weather loaches. She said that the school was covering over the school pond and they were getting rid of the fishes they had in their pond. She knew "daddy" didn't have goldfish in his tank but she thought that loaches maybe alright as I bought some Khuli "loaches"( being the operative word). After saying that I haven't seen the two of them since putting them into the tank! My daughter is only 8 years old. The two weather loaches are being kept in a small plastic tank at the moment. Can they be safely introducted into a tropical tank without killing them. I don't want to hurt my daughter's feelings by sending her back to school with them. We do have a river nearby, but that is a last alternative. What do you think I should do?

 

[wlbadger]

Don't put them in your river!!! I have read that they have had big problems with the buggers in south australia. They polute the water much like carp. The suggested temp is 22 c, thats all I know about putting them in tropical.

 

[Davy Reynolds]

There a cold water fish plain and simple.

I've got a fish card on them in the main site

Please don't put them in the river. Your a bit to far north for them :laugh:

 

[Dragonslair]

Thanks for the info. I will see if any of my friends want them and if not I will introduce them to the aquarium. I'll let you know what happens. They are characters.

 

[Dragonslair]

Soft I be...decided to introduce slowly the loaches into my main tank this evening. I felt so sorry for them in a sterile environment in a little plastic tank. Hearing advice from the rest of you, I couldn't let them go into the river. Once they settled, they found a home amongst the java moss and the rocks. They look like eels with just their heads poking out between the crevices of the rock landscape. I may be lucky, or not as the case maybe. Checking out the info. it looks like I may have a M and a F pair. Willkeep you posted on the "tropical weather".

 

[adeyc]

To be perfectly honest it seems to be a problem we don't have here. foreign fish taking over everywhere, well not with fish anyway. Mostly the rivers and streams are to cold and there are plenty of predaters in the water as well as out. Then you've got the amount of waterways that are poluted.
But then again just think about the monster goldfish in the sewers coming to get it's own back when you're on the toilet.lol I think we'd have a lot more species that weren't native to the UK about by now if they could survive in the wild.

 

[Davy Reynolds]

We to expend on what I said. Its to far north for them, cos they can be found the Londons water ways.

 

[Dragonslair]

Monster goldfish eh!. Here in these parts we have the infamous Lambton Worm. Heard of it?
Before we moved out here in the stix, we used to live near the home of the legendary creature. Famous geordie songs about it ; as famous as the Blaydon races!!! If you come to these parts, the landmark for the home of the worm is as famous as the Angel of the North.
It may be a fable, but twelve generations of the Lambton family have died in mysterious circumstances as the legend predicted.
Another subject for a good chat in the chatroom is your polite way of casting aspersions of too manyforeignersin this country. :laugh:  :laugh:

 

[wlbadger]

Are you people speaking English? Sometimes I find it so difficult to understand what you are writing. It must be a culture gap. Don't you have carp in England? We have them everywhere in the States and they suck. Eat all the game fish and get enormous. Prime example of non native species taking over. Weather loaches however are native to Europe are they not? Are they found on the island? (England) They have them in Korea where it gets quite cold, snow cold at least. And I have read about some kept in Washington in a pond where the owner breaks through the ice to feed them.

 

[adeyc]

A lot of our native fish are probably imported (By the Victorians)but the likes of the fancy coldwater fish Trpoicals etc don't survive in the waters here. Maybe they could down the very south of England(Pete's the man to answer this). I do know of a lot of different people throughout the country that have got fed up or for some reason couldnt keep the fish and released them into the rivers etc and were not heard about or seen again. I know this is a problem in a lot of countries but it's something that doesn't seem to be happening over here. There was one idiot that released about 26 Piranah into an English river all of which promptly died.

 

[Great Lakes]

Carp :grumpy:

 

[dal 9tanks]

sometimes its not just the fish keepers to blame for non native fish getting into our waterways!i live very close to a river,where also there happens to be a fishing complex,i have walked the river banks for many years following the shoals of native fish(roach,perch,chub,dace etc),but nowadays nearly all of these fish have gone :=) due to escapees from the nearby fishery,carp now have started to dominate and play havoc with the rivers eco system,things have got so bad a local boy last year managed to catch a 39lb wels catfish!!!!(big fish for a 6ft wide 4ft deep river hey) you may have seen this story in the nationals last year?but still no convictions were made against the fishery in question!!!!!

 

[Dragonslair]

We have a fishery at Durham City, and escapees of salmon are constantly leaping over the barrier. Trout fishing is good also. They seem to manage to break free. Unfortunately because of this illeagal fishing occurs quite frequently.

 

[dal 9tanks]

hi dragonslair,i was just wondering what effect this has had on the local fish stocks and wildlife,here where i am it has totally ruined the native balance?
also what is the fishery doing to try and prevent anymore escapees(or not doing as the case maybe)

 

[adeyc]

I used to work on a fish farm breeding trout. The closest it was to any water apart from the pens/tanks/ hatchery was about 100 yards, and stiil the local fisheries dept came round every so often to check on it. The same companie had sea hatcheries and they were checked every month(salmon) and got hefty fines for any escapees. Most of the fishing up here is for salmon or trout you don't get any of the game fish about, but the most you're likely to catch is a cold.