mrsP
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I was just enjoying my tank and thought you might like to see some of photos too, I'll attach them to the end. Tank is 250 litres, or 66 US gallons, planted, and I have a lot of fish in there. Stocking includes:
6 goldfish, accidental spawn around year ago, so I grew them myself
Hillstream loaches, bought 5, spawned, no idea how many there are now, but LOTS
1 bristle nose pleco
2 otos
6 yoyo loaches
Guppy / Endler hybrids, dozens of them
snails
3 clams
female betta
I had 2 female guppies and bought 3 endler males from my lfs, as they had lovely colors, and I wanted some small fish. They didn't have any females, but they breed easily, to now I have lots of exiting color hybrids. There are neon oranges mixed with opalecent blue or white and black, or blue, orange and black, or black and orange, or nearly see-through females with yellowish color (I imagine that they give that lovely pearly color to offspring that I regulary see). There are nearly every finn shapes you can think of, and no 2 fish are the same. I specially love couple of males that have neon orange tail with black markings, and opalecent pearl and blue snakeskin sides.
Every information about Hillstream loaches say that they need high flow tank. Mine is not high flow, but moderate, and I have quite a lot of plants there. However, they breed. I originally bought 5, since I thought that might be nice, minimum number of them to that size tank. Oh well, they spawned (story of that is somewhere in forum) and now I have absolutely no clue how many there are, since I see juveniles all over. I love it!
I got yoyos because I hade literally hundreds of snails, but they don't seem to eat that much of them, or I just don't notice that. However, they are fun to watch, and look hilarious when they sleep on their side somewhere. They definetly caused some concern before I realised they just sleep that way.
And my darling betta. She's lovely, and she was some of my nearly first fish I got. She's always lived with others since I got her, and never had any problems even when people generally say that bettas don't tolerate other fish. I disagree. I've always had betta or two in my tank, and never had any problems. There might be few reasons to it, I've always had planted tanks, and fed my fish well. And keep water quality good. I think those are main things to be able to keep quite "aggressive" fish with others. She does have couple of favorite hang out spots, but she's not too jealous if some other fish share it with her.
6 goldfish, accidental spawn around year ago, so I grew them myself
Hillstream loaches, bought 5, spawned, no idea how many there are now, but LOTS
1 bristle nose pleco
2 otos
6 yoyo loaches
Guppy / Endler hybrids, dozens of them
snails
3 clams
female betta
I had 2 female guppies and bought 3 endler males from my lfs, as they had lovely colors, and I wanted some small fish. They didn't have any females, but they breed easily, to now I have lots of exiting color hybrids. There are neon oranges mixed with opalecent blue or white and black, or blue, orange and black, or black and orange, or nearly see-through females with yellowish color (I imagine that they give that lovely pearly color to offspring that I regulary see). There are nearly every finn shapes you can think of, and no 2 fish are the same. I specially love couple of males that have neon orange tail with black markings, and opalecent pearl and blue snakeskin sides.
Every information about Hillstream loaches say that they need high flow tank. Mine is not high flow, but moderate, and I have quite a lot of plants there. However, they breed. I originally bought 5, since I thought that might be nice, minimum number of them to that size tank. Oh well, they spawned (story of that is somewhere in forum) and now I have absolutely no clue how many there are, since I see juveniles all over. I love it!
I got yoyos because I hade literally hundreds of snails, but they don't seem to eat that much of them, or I just don't notice that. However, they are fun to watch, and look hilarious when they sleep on their side somewhere. They definetly caused some concern before I realised they just sleep that way.
And my darling betta. She's lovely, and she was some of my nearly first fish I got. She's always lived with others since I got her, and never had any problems even when people generally say that bettas don't tolerate other fish. I disagree. I've always had betta or two in my tank, and never had any problems. There might be few reasons to it, I've always had planted tanks, and fed my fish well. And keep water quality good. I think those are main things to be able to keep quite "aggressive" fish with others. She does have couple of favorite hang out spots, but she's not too jealous if some other fish share it with her.