Since I rewoke old thread this for NoodleCats, I thought I'd give a quick update on my sewellia & riverish tank. Sadly my beautiful peppermint loaches in a different tank died out 6 months or so later in 2018 (sniffle). If anyone sees them or the similar rainbow loaches for sale, PLEASE tell me!!!
Today I counted 14 sewellia on the front glass & that's not counting the newest? small 1/4 " fry snuffling through the java moss/duckweed background I saw a few weeks ago. They are mixed sizes from 2 inches to barely 1/2 inch total length. I was told (by their AC breeder) tank raised sewellia are smaller than wild caught adults. They are the slowest growing fry I've ever kept!! I think it may take 3 years to get to "tank bred" adult 2 inches. I may be up to F4s (4 generations removed from wild caught) but I have no way to tell. I'm happy with a fry or a few every year.
Last year or 3? I saw a large male with some ragged edges to all his paired fins. I "think" he must have been an original loach. I did not see him among the 14 on the glass last night. It doesn't mean he has died, just that I haven't seen him lately...I also have not seen the old stiphodon goby survivor that I see once or twice/year. Last year he looked a bit more blue than I'd seen him in a few years' sightings.
I haven't had schooling little fish in this tank fora long while. I had Vietnamese white clouds (micagemmae) & a couple regular whiteclouds, 3 species of stiphodon gobies (cool fish!) & later leopard danios ( a color variety of zebra danios).
I've been researching NoodleCats' sarawakenis rasboras (you know it Cass!!), they may be next!. I need to make sure my unheated tank is ok for them in my California house. It's been a while since I had either a heater or themometer there.
Today I counted 14 sewellia on the front glass & that's not counting the newest? small 1/4 " fry snuffling through the java moss/duckweed background I saw a few weeks ago. They are mixed sizes from 2 inches to barely 1/2 inch total length. I was told (by their AC breeder) tank raised sewellia are smaller than wild caught adults. They are the slowest growing fry I've ever kept!! I think it may take 3 years to get to "tank bred" adult 2 inches. I may be up to F4s (4 generations removed from wild caught) but I have no way to tell. I'm happy with a fry or a few every year.
Last year or 3? I saw a large male with some ragged edges to all his paired fins. I "think" he must have been an original loach. I did not see him among the 14 on the glass last night. It doesn't mean he has died, just that I haven't seen him lately...I also have not seen the old stiphodon goby survivor that I see once or twice/year. Last year he looked a bit more blue than I'd seen him in a few years' sightings.
I haven't had schooling little fish in this tank fora long while. I had Vietnamese white clouds (micagemmae) & a couple regular whiteclouds, 3 species of stiphodon gobies (cool fish!) & later leopard danios ( a color variety of zebra danios).
I've been researching NoodleCats' sarawakenis rasboras (you know it Cass!!), they may be next!. I need to make sure my unheated tank is ok for them in my California house. It's been a while since I had either a heater or themometer there.
