Natural habitat "friends" for Clown Loach?

[Graeme Robson]

Here's a nice little read from Ola Åhlander. http://www.bollmoraakvarieklubb.org/art ... 0loach.htm

[-clown-]

Angelfish has several imaginary friends called undescribedspecies and others i cant remember right now. he has a habit of coming across here as quite blunt and rude, and has upset quite a few people.

Ok..... I see....
In "my" swedish forum we also have developed a internal jargon within the group wich can be hard to follow for newcomers...

i will have a look around mongafish, and see what i can find. you are right, it can be hard to get around, but worth the effort if you have plenty of time.

Oh! Thanx!

i hope you get on well with your biotope tank. it would be great to see some pictures of it when its all set up and stocked. let us know how you get on.

Of course!!!!

[-clown-]

I've rooted around on mongabay in the past (have attempted a biotope myself) but don't recall there being anything with quite that level of detail.

So what is your biotope? Your fishes? *curious*

[-clown-]

Here's a nice little read from Ola Åhlander. http://www.bollmoraakvarieklubb.org/art ... 0loach.htm

I have read that in swedish, it is a exellent article! I have also wrote to him for help, havent got an answer yet though....

[angelfish83]

helen nightingale wrote:
Angelfish has several imaginary friends called undescribedspecies and others i cant remember right now. he has a habit of coming across here as quite blunt and rude, and has upset quite a few people.
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I didn't realize I might have offended Clown with all the compliments I threw his way in my post

I HAVE to be more careful with this being nice to others thing...

helen nightingale wroge:
but if you need to knnow about rocks, he may know.
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Not Charoite though

[Eyrie]

Graeme, bookmarked that link - thanks

I've rooted around on mongabay in the past (have attempted a biotope myself) but don't recall there being anything with quite that level of detail.

So what is your biotope? Your fishes? *curious*

I've got a 240L/53G tank with four clowns (4-6") and an infestation of harlequins (22 I think!). Recently lost a male pearl gourami and haven't got round to replacing it yet. There's also a male black phantom tetra surviving from when this was a community tank and which hangs around on the edge of the harlequin shoal.

There's a fair bit of bogwood in the tank and a gravel substrate. Planting is mainly hygrophilia polysperma and vallis, with a little Java fern. Also have two Sri Lankan cryptocorenes (balansae and beckettii), hence my description of it as being an attempt at a biotope. Didn't work!

[-clown-]

BTW - I am a She...

[helen nightingale]

Clown here's a link to mongabay with a list of fish from indonesia along with clown loaches (botia macracanthus).

http://fish.mongabay.com/data/Indonesia.htm


my computer wouldnt let me open the link i wanted to give you tonight, but if you click on botia macracanthus and then ecosytem, its likely to give you more details. when i was looking into biotypes for some of my fish, it could find out exactly which rivers they come from. some of the species have information such as predators and other interesting stuff

heres a link to a species summary

http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Summary/sp ... cracanthus

i got this to work better using an alternative rout, but there seems to be less info than for some other species, but its slightly better than nothing

good luck!

[-clown-]

Clown here's a link to mongabay with a list of fish from indonesia along with clown loaches (botia macracanthus).

http://fish.mongabay.com/data/Indonesia.htm

if you click on botia macracanthus and then ecosytem, its likely to give you more details.

the link doesnt work for me... when i click on botia macracanthus a page opens with this:
"Error Occurred While Processing Request"
Does it work for u???

[helen nightingale]

sorry about the delay in replying, ive been on holiday

the link worked last time i tried it, maybe try again a few times. sometimes i find that a page will only open when it feels like it. maybe there is another way to the page. the site is a bit a maze. good luck!