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Oh, and are there any posters from just south of here? I think Seattle and Portland may also be in a similar bind. I'm in Portland, and there is a backup system whereupon water is drawn from wells near the Columbia River if the turbidity in the reservoir system gets too high. The water there is sli...

mikev wrote:Zippers is another option.

They are smaller than even striata and are very efficient with snails.

Possible extra advantage: zippers would prefer cooler temperature which is also better for Danios and White Clouds, and should be ok for Rasboras.

Is that the Noemachielus botia?

Thanks again!

Oh, and are there any posters from just south of here? I think Seattle and Portland may also be in a similar bind. I'm in Portland, and there is a backup system whereupon water is drawn from wells near the Columbia River if the turbidity in the reservoir system gets too high. The water there is sli...

I've never kept sids, I'm afraid; they're lovely fish but I don;t know a great deal about them - like whether or not they eat snails :lol: by the way, evangelical as I am about white clouds, your temperature is going to be a little on the high side for them, isn't it? I have the tank at about 72-74...

These are really nice. I have seen some interestingly-patterned striata in my neighborhood but nothing as asymmetrically-jaguar patterned as this.

sophie wrote:striata.
you might also be ok with yoyos, but that's a "might", I think, not a definite..

Thank you Sophie. What's your experience with sidthmunki?

Hello Everyone: I am very new to this forum and very new to the world of non-cichlids. Having dabbled extensively in cichlids for the last 18 of my 20 or so years of cichlids I am very satisfied that there is indeed life after Cichidae! Lately, I have focused my efforts on a single, 50-gallon plante...