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by prometheus
Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:45 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Questions about Botia almorhae and Botia striata
Replies: 9
Views: 8603

I have one yoyo which is several years old and has always been the only yoyo in the tank. About six months ago I added eight striata expecting them to hang together a bit. They never did, the yoyo hangs out with my ghost knife more than he does the striata. Oh, that are quite bad news for me :( But...
by prometheus
Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:16 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Questions about Botia almorhae and Botia striata
Replies: 9
Views: 8603

The best solution is probably to add more Yoyos. Most loaches like a larger group. Are you able to have a larger tank? That's my problem: I don't have a place in my room where I could put a bigger tank, and I don't know anybody who has a bigger tank and would like to keep some loaches - that's why ...
by prometheus
Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:29 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Questions about Botia almorhae and Botia striata
Replies: 9
Views: 8603

Hi,

is there nobody else with any experience with this combination? Is there nobody else with an idea how to solve my problem that I just two Yoyos?

Greeting
Prometheus
by prometheus
Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:46 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Questions about Botia almorhae and Botia striata
Replies: 9
Views: 8603

Hi and thanks for the nice welcome, I'm from Krefeld in Germany, that's near to Düsseldorf. Well, my Yoyos get along with each other quite good, even if they have their little fight every evening. At the beginning they always greyed out while fighting, but now they're just swimming one after another...
by prometheus
Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:15 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: Questions about Botia almorhae and Botia striata
Replies: 9
Views: 8603

Questions about Botia almorhae and Botia striata

Hi all, I am keeping two Yoyo-Loaches for round about 11 years now, and I just started to get more informations about loaches. After reading the new book about loaches written by the authours also acitve in this forum, I decided to redesign my tank (160 L - 42,27 gallons) as a loach tank with barbs ...