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I thought I would post some pictures of the Emperors that I got from Emma's in their temporary tank, they look a little faded because I had to move a fair bit of decor to get some half decent pictures.








Hopefully they will be going into the 7ft in a couple of weeks time

Beautiful pics of beautiful loaches.

Emma

You are so lucky ,you know that though......Those are so nice.Are they acting like grrs or Dario? or different entirely?

Those are incredible

Those are some Very Nice Loaches, but I guess everyone already knows that though.

Hi Duff,

I have never seen one of those "live", just pictures and yours are great!

Congrats!

Thankyou for all the great comments, and yes I am very lucky

Tinman wrote:Are they acting like grrs or Dario? or different entirely?

Definitely not Grr's, they seem very sociable at the moment and only really show any signs of being feisty at feeding times. When there is plenty of food they are fine but once a fair bit of food has gone they will start knocking each other out of the way to get at it and I have even witnessed a little bit of nipping going on but only at feeding time.

If one is on its own for more than 5 to 10 minutes it will come out from where it is hiding and look for the others and its almost like a group hug when they find each other, they are amazing to watch. When I only had the 3 they did seem to be a little less sociable but now there are 6 they are much happier.

I actually have one of them that is almost feeding from my fingers, I hold the frozen food in the same spot every day and he/she knows to come out as soon as the lid goes back and it is about an inch from the food to make sure it gets first dibs

I am just hoping that this behaviour continues when they go into the 7ft, they will be going from 21 gallons to 230 gallons.

Great input, I will be watching for these. I will not pass given an opportunity to keep these. I will look forward to your experiances keeping Emperors to improve my chances should they make their way West.