Botia striatia

ziggy2 · Post by **ziggy2** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:37 am

I was considering adding a school of zebras to a Discus tank. What do you think? Any idea where I could find a school of 6 to 12?

Tinman · Post by **Tinman** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:19 am

Loaches and Discus do not mix. Flow requirements differ greatly. It would be pretty but not practical. Discus do much better with Discus and my success with them which was great was in a specie specific enviroment which is low flow,hot and soft as oppposed to the flow rate required by Loaches .

cybermeez · Post by **cybermeez** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:30 am

In addition to what Tinman said, Loaches (especially the Botia genus which Striatas are a member) are very curious fish. They may find your Discus very interesting and inadvertently harass them. They don't do this out of agression, simply curiosity.

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:48 am

And I will add that the curiousity more often than not takes place overnight when the loaches are at their most active, and when the discus will be resting. This will spook them and result in no end of stress. Not a good combination IMO.

Emma

ziggy2 · Post by **ziggy2** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:23 pm

I'm glad I came over here to post. These were suggested by a so called Discus Expert. I have Eight Discus that I am getting ready to move to a planted 110 tall tank. I will be adding two more Discus soon, but thought I would something different to mix it up. I ususally only keep them by themselves.

Thanks for all the information.

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:48 am

Smart move on your part ziggy2.

Loaches also prefer a tank with a larger footprint, rather than depth. They shoot around a lot.

Are you planning to breed your discus? Got any pics to put up over on the freshwater forum? We haven't had any cool discus pics for a long time. . .

Tinman · Post by **Tinman** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:32 am

I'm glad I came over here to post.

So are we Ziggy2. Show us yer Discus

ziggy2 · Post by **ziggy2** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:22 pm

I will put up some pics. These are my young ones.

ziggy2 · Post by **ziggy2** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:27 pm

Ok, I lied. How do you post pics on this site? I am confused.

starsplitter7 · Post by **starsplitter7** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:37 pm

ziggy2 wrote:Ok, I lied. How do you post pics on this site? I am confused.

Does this answer your question? I didn't know if you already read it and didn't understand.
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=5

ziggy2 · Post by **ziggy2** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:43 pm

Well I tried and can can't seem to get them posted.

starsplitter7 · Post by **starsplitter7** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:09 pm

ziggy2 wrote:Well I tried and can can't seem to get them posted.

I am sure one of the experts can help you then.

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:27 pm

Hey ziggy, can you get them uploaded to photobucket? If not, I'll send you a pm and you can email them to me and I'll put them up for you.

I know. It's a pita, but it's a bandwidth issue, really.

Once you get them on photobucket, all you have to do is click on the IMG tag at the bottom of your photo, come here and open a post, then right click/paste the code into your post.

Preview to make sure it shows up, and voila!

ziggy2 · Post by **ziggy2** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:27 pm

Lord knows, I need all the help I can get.

ziggy2 · Post by **ziggy2** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:29 pm

shot me a PM and I'll send them to you. I can not get them to upload. Don't really understand it. I'm on a T-1 line. I don't usually have a bandwidth issue. It might be the firewall.

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