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I'm not sure that I'll have a choice about size, but I'll see if I can get smaller ones. Speaking of which, can you have more than one in a tank, or is that not a good idea? I would like to have about three of them, but from what I'm reading, that might not work out so well unless I have copious hiding places. Do people only ever have one at a time?

I have seen mention of her book around the forums, when is it due out?

Hrm, I must have the wrong name for them then. At the fish shop they're just called 'algae eaters' but when I tried to find a picture of them online the site I found them on called them Chinese. The ones I'm buying are in a cold water tank at the shop - they're teeny tiny and come in gold or brown

Hi My name is Gretchen, and my husband and I have just purchased our first serious aquarium. We're planning on having a couple of red finned bullys, some koura (blue ones if we can get them, my local fish shop is trying to hook me up) and a little school of four inanga. We'll also have a single golden apple snail and a couple of little Chinese algae eaters because they're cute. Our tank is an Aqua One 980, and holds about 215 litres of water. We're going to get a chiller unit to be on the safe side with water temps since Auckland gets quite warm and humid. We're going the petshop route rather than sourcing anything from the wild, but I'm planning some forays up into the Waitakeres to have a look at streams and learn about the environment in them first hand. So far I've found tonnes of good information about caring for natives in this forum, but I will undoubtedly be popping in and out asking noob questions, because I'd rather ask an obvious question than accidentally harm one of my little inmates. Yeah. Nice to meet you