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Just thought I would let you know I picked up 4 Sewellia lineolata today from Uncle Ned's. Fantastic little fish. They are already grazing on the algae covered rocks and wood!
Will they eat algae wafers? I bought some just in case they do.

Mike

mine do mike, don't know about everyone else though.
i know they love tubifex worms.

mick

Congratulations Mike!!
They have quickly become one of my favorite hillstreams.
As far as food goes, mine eat just about anything.
I feed them various brands of algae wafers, Omega One shrimp pellets, Hikari bloodworms, spirulina brine shrimp, and mysis shrimp as well as par-boiled spinach leaves.
They seem to adapt more quickly to prepared foods than most other hillstreams.
Good luck!!!

Thanks guys! Yea my 4 are already crawling all over the 80 gallon grazing on any stone or slate that seems to have algae on it...right at home! Ned said they werent taking algae wafers but only algae. I will drop some wafers in tomorrow and see what happens. It looks like the large one (about 2.5 inches) is a male. The other 3 small ones are 1.5 inches so I dont know if you can sex them at that size?

Mike

Congratualtions on a great find, Mike. Once established they seem to show more interest in dried foods than they do algae or frozen foods. Mine go particularly mad for the JMC sinking catfish pellets we get over here.

Emma

i use the same pellets emma from what ive seen with this food virtually any fish go barmy for them.

mick
ps emma the pellets are manufactured in europe and packed over in the uk.

You should be able to sex them at 1.5 ", Mike.

really..wow..in that case i will hop to it then!

Mike

looks like i have 3 males and a female

Mike

I bet she is going to be busy.

Like one of my female P.cheni that was spawning with 2 different males at different nest locations on the same day!

You're going to love them Mike.

Martin.