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Do you know what brand this is?

So who is Mr Bitey?

Now where have I seen that bird with the white eyes before?

Goodness me, don't encourage Sophia to get hillstreams - she will get no moderating done if she spends all her time watching them!

Pudgy little sucker isn't he - too many donuts methinks, and beer!

Chilly bins are good, I have used insulated lunch bags as well. What size fish are we talking about?

It is a bit hard to sex them when they are little, it is one of those just hope you get a good mix things. Someone on here has managed to breed them, you may have to use the search function to find the posts.

Yeah - shower is going to be interesting... :nilly:

Good luck! Burnt my thumb knuckle thing on the top of the fireplace - not looking too good (got out of washing the dishes though...)

You have to feed them live food, they will rarely take flake or pellets. I feed mine grindal worms, blackworms, daphnia, mozzie larvae and I think they eat the snails in the tank (have never seen them do this though). Mine will not eat frozen bloodworms or frozen anything for that matter. They need approx 20l per fish - sounds extravagant for such a wee beastie, but they need it along with plenty of 'cover' such as plants so that they can stay out of each others' line of sight. Any other fish in one's view is just asking for a bite, no matter what the sex. Try and get one male to two or three females or there will be a war of epic proportions when they get a bit bigger if there are two males, usually culminating in the death of one. I have ottocinclis in the tank with mine, they act like dead leaves most of the time and the puffers seem to tolerate them in the tank, anything else would probably get harassed and nipped to death. They are feisty wee monsters, I don't know how one of mine survives, when you feed them he starts heading towards a worm until he sees another fish out of the corner of his eye so he has to go chase them off, this done he looks for more food until he sees another fish out of the corner of his eye and... you get the picture - why he is not as skinny as a rake and half dead I do not know. As disgustipated says they are full of character and cruise around with seemingless effort using their pectoral fins and bending their caudal fins around like a rudder to steer themselves, this they usually keep clamped so they look like little fat torpedoes and they only flare them when they are doing the 'don't mess with me' dance around each other in circles. Don't buy skinny specimens, they should be plump no matter what the size, and ask the seller what they feed them, if it is not live food but they say they have seen them eat flake I would be a bit skeptical and they look a too thin I would give them a miss.

It should work - you can insert images using the img tags as you do on the forum, not attach files

Ummm.. you want me to spell them? Beaufortia kweichowensis Sewellia lineolata Gastromyzon something or other possibly ctenocephalus or scitulus, they seem to have longer slightly blue/white markings on the tail rather than broken spot things. I did have one with tiger stripes across it's back with a redish tail and a spotty Gastro type one with a red band at the end of it's tail but that was a while ago They are such possessive 'cock of the rock' type fish and 'fight' over a stone for ages flaring and trying to shovel under the opponent to push them off the rock - can waste a lot of time watching them... :roll:

My hillstreams are in an unheated tank, averages about 18 deg with the two pumps and light over it. There are heaps of different types of Hillstreams Sophia, over 30 if I recall correctly and there is a huge variety of patterns. Heaps of info here: http://www.loaches.com/articles/hillstr ... -fast-lane

Is that the petshop by Vic Markets with the reptile den downstairs?

My hillstreams need some spice - not much happening on the breeding front for a while there...

Jealous!

I am sure there are a lot of farmers out there who would dispute that dogs kill only to eat. Info regarding the status of the skinks - https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=ca ... JoMxCkF2eA

That demo setup is terrible! Why put such large white boulders in such a small tank - everything is totally out of whack! There were some nice nano tanks in Hong Kong - they had a false back where all the running gear was situated so it was all hidden behind a black or blue background and worked on an overflow system - hmmm... wonder if I can do this with my 240mm cube?

I keep mostly little fish killies, guppies, corys and three types of hillstream loach (you spice your hillstreams blue? )- my largest fish are a PT 'Moliwe' and a gold stripe Premnas biaculeatus. Largest tanks are 108l (Marine) and 64l (freshwater)

I will have a look at this after the lists have been finalised, which should be shortly, still waiting on a couple of late clubs.

I use a square Systema click top box with a few holes drilled in the lid - they do not escape from that! They normally climb the walls, is the container in a dark place? This is the type of box, http://www.fnzas.org.nz/?p=461 Grindals are just smaller whiteworms.

My feet are freezing...

Where does it sleep when the lights are out? An extra pair of hands and a torch may make catching it easier in the dark.

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/?p=1114 http://www.fnzas.org.nz/?p=1699

It might be a bit cold for them at the moment, have found them locally in November, but not in April.