I saw mellowvision's 30 gallon hill stream tank a while ago and it kind of inspired me to do something similar in the future. Earlier this week I was at my LFS and stumbled onto a shipment of hill stream loaches that they had recently received. They had them in a tank with no algae at all and didn't appear to be feeding them, so I just had to take 3 home with me.
I put them in an empty 20 gallon I had sitting around, moved a cycled Emperor 400 off of another tank over to the 20 gallon, and added sand and some rocks from my pond that are covered in algae. Right now I have the Emperor 400 set up so the heater and airstones are hidden inside of it and I'm trying to come up with some way of hiding the filter intake too.
The cabinet the tank is sitting on top of has a lot of room under it so I'm contemplating putting together a veggie filter or a sump under it.
Out of the 3 fish, this is the only one that has been comfortable enough to come out of hiding so far and let me get a picture of it. Its coloration is different from the others; the are much darker, have smaller and lighter colored spots, and seem to be flatter. Anyone know exactly which species it is? It's too sunny to take a full tank shot now so I'll try to get one tonight. I need ideas on other tank mates. I've been looking into white cloud mountain minnows but I am not sure yet. Any suggestions or comments are welcome!
I put them in an empty 20 gallon I had sitting around, moved a cycled Emperor 400 off of another tank over to the 20 gallon, and added sand and some rocks from my pond that are covered in algae. Right now I have the Emperor 400 set up so the heater and airstones are hidden inside of it and I'm trying to come up with some way of hiding the filter intake too.
The cabinet the tank is sitting on top of has a lot of room under it so I'm contemplating putting together a veggie filter or a sump under it.
Out of the 3 fish, this is the only one that has been comfortable enough to come out of hiding so far and let me get a picture of it. Its coloration is different from the others; the are much darker, have smaller and lighter colored spots, and seem to be flatter. Anyone know exactly which species it is? It's too sunny to take a full tank shot now so I'll try to get one tonight. I need ideas on other tank mates. I've been looking into white cloud mountain minnows but I am not sure yet. Any suggestions or comments are welcome!