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Well, lo and behold, my LFS's have finally decided to come into the 21st century. I've just seen my first BN and Otos locally, as well as bumblebee gobies, puffers, and things of this nature.

But, for me, the ultimate find was the ever elusive Hillstream Loach.

Now, some of you may remember a few months ago I converted my 38 gallon into a river tank specifically for hillstream loaches. Today, I found them, and at 2.99 a pop, much cheaper than the $5 plus $25 shipping I would have found online.

So, I present, for your viewing pleasure, my updated river tank, complete with very grainy pictures!

I added another dozen white clouds and 4 hillstream loaches, as near as I can tell, all different species, possibly spanning two or more genera. Also, I added some more plants and a rather makeshift CO2 system to combat some nasty cyano that I'm fighting right now.

So, again, all I ask is that you take a moment of your time and validate my existence by looking at some very poorly taken pics with a digital camcorder of one boy's dream to rule the world. Or at least one small portion of it.

Joe Potato

That's awesome .

Very nice, I'm glad you found some locally

Atleast one of them appears to be of the Gastromyzon genera, but I'm not entirely sure...

What's the temp at? If it's too warm they won't last more than a few months. If it's too warm you might want to invest in a cooling system in your lights.

Have fun

Temps just above 70.

Yeah, I think possibly two of them are Gastromyzon, and one of the others is Hemimyzon. I'm still working on the fourth one. Also, I just realized I didn't take a wide shot of the entire tank. I'll do that tonight.

Joe Potato

i agree with john

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''All the clown fish and yellow tangs in the world cant save you now!''

looking good joe hillstreams are great. what size tank is it ?

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Billy was a scientist, Billy is no more. For what he thought was H20, was H2SO4

I'd personally get the temp down a few more degrees, but it shouldn't cause many problems where it is.

CFD, it's a 38 gallon

Good luck

Nice tank and I love the loaches Definitely try to get some full tanks shots.


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