Butterfly

Loaches.com formerly Loachesonline.com has a printable poster on clown loaches and Hillstream Loaches.
http://www.loaches.com/articles/information-posters
and
http://www.loaches.com/articles/Hillstream%20Flyer.pdf
These were made especially to print and give to LFS
Sorry Shawnie didn't mean to hijack your thread
carol

Shawnie

hijack away ...LFS need a good hijackin also!! nice links!!!!!! TyTY

Blub

voiceless_kat

I also had CAE sold to me as an oto - he was a very bad fish. I had cories sold to me as algae eaters! Still have those little turds - love them. I research everything now - well I did buy the Gold Apple Snail on impulse - but he's cool.

Funny how most of us have had the experience of correcting an employee of a LFS.

Suitsina.....180 gallons - I am green with envy. I thought I hit the jackpot when my hubby didn't object when I said I wanted another tank, no larger than 36g......ha ha. Well I guess we all have our own small victories!!

Shawnie

on my way to my LFS now...with printouts in hand
ps..my clown loach as well

Shawnie

Well...Flyers all dropped off..not sure if they thought I was being rude or not..seems the lady that took care of me was new...so my reply was, "why let her on the floor to sell without knowledge?"

they appologized and traded my clown loach for this handsome guy...siamese algae...

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Butterfly

He's a beauty They did tell you he'll get about 6 inches right? If you don't have algae he will need some vegetable matter in his diet.
Carol

Shawnie

yeps they did...hes in my 30 gallon..and yes i have algae and wafers....thanks so much for all your help!

while I got ya , my fish guy that was out the other day was finally in!! I asked for a med size common pleco for my 75 gallon, and he said he would get me one and when the time came that he got too big, before I got a new tank, that I could return him anytime..is that something that mite be ok to get rid of algae in my oscar tank?

Butterfly

yes should be ok. I just get too attached to my plecs to give them back.
Instead of a common maybe you could get him to get you a Rhino Plec(Pterygoplichthys scrophus). I had one in my 75G until we moved and it lives at Dinos now. but they are excellent algae eater(cool looking too) and the 75G is plenty big enough.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog...?species_id=80
Heres a pic of mine before we moved.
Carol

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Shawnie

aww hes awesome looking...how big is he?? as i have oscars and dont want him to be a meal...im reading up on them now../\..thats what i was worried about too was getting attached.....thanks tons carol

Butterfly

When I sent him to Dino about a year ago he was and had been about eight inches for over a year. I didn't think he was going to get much bigger but he spent last summer in Dinos pond and he is a little bigger now but still ok for a 75g. He had been in the tank with 7 & 8 inch Clown Loaches and Angel Fish.
Carol

COBettaCouple

LOL.. a 6" clown loach.. maybe it's the mysterious dwarf clown loach?

Shawnie

ANYTHING to make a buck I guess!

Butterfly

probably many bucks. When people lose fish(for whatever reason) they tend to go back to the same places.
Carol

Ntruder1400

Shawnie - I see that you are from Raymond, I'm from Nashua. What are you using for your LFS? I am always looking for NH LFSs. I have been to a few in the Merrimack/Souhegan valley, but Manchester area is not too far for me to travel for an LFS with decent stock. There is another member here (can't remember his "handle" - Bishop maybe) that uses a place in Salem that he says is OK. Just wondering about anything that is a reasonable distance for me to check out - APOLOGIES FOR THE HIJACK.

Shawnie

I use a couple ntruder..and hijack anytime ...I have friends at the raymond fish store, although they just hired some newbies so I decided id only deal with the guy that has the most knowledge..his name is dj...and I also go to rochester because I special order there and he gets them fast and ive not had bad luck yet..now that I have learned alot here, my fish appreciate it

Ntruder1400

Raymond I'd do, but Rochester is a bit far for me, although I was just out on the Seacoast yesterday on business. What is the name of the Raymond Fish Store? Hopefully this is not a forum violation.

Shawnie

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