Little Loach article

[starsplitter7]

Hi there,

I am getting involved in my local aquarium club, and I wanted to start by writing articles on loaches for the newsletter.

I found that club members are pretty surprised by the strange things loaches do, so I wanted to ask, if anyone has any great pictures of their loaches doing funny things like sleeping upside down, squashed with their friends or in unusual places.

Could you send your pictures to me, the species of your fish, if you have a pet name, and your permission to use the picture in my local fish hard copy newsletter and the newsletter will be published on their website too. I would be happy to post the newsletter link here, so you can see your pictures.

I want to write these articles to improve the life of loaches. Like in so many places, people think it is perfectly fine to add a single loach to a cichlid tank for snail control, and I want people to love loaches for the love of the loach.

My first article will be general about loaches with a concentration on clowns. I'd like pictures of any loaches doing funny stuff.

I need the pictures this week by Sunday.

Thanks, Tanja

[bookpage]

If you like the picture of my avatar, you can use it.

Just let me know and I will send larger image.

[starsplitter7]

You have a great avatar. It's great for showing them stuffed. How big is that tube, and how big are the buddies? Thank you.

[bookpage]

The inside diameter is a little less than 3 inches. The bigger loach is over 7 inches long.

[chefkeith]

I'd like to help.
I don't really have any good pics, but I've seen a few great clown loach video's up at youtube that you can link to.

Here's an excellent video of clown loaches playing dead-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udMK76w7w6A

Here's a scary loach video-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecEIASjM ... re=related

A Clown loach showing off for the ladies-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKINcDZv13I

Here's some of the most beautiful clown loaches I've ever seen -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEocgVMuPls

I have a few video's up also-

Clownhouse Rock-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvPuGkHiTEU
Surfing Loaches-
http://www.youtube.com/user/chefkda#p/f/1/cTHYxHedGJo


Can't wait to see and read the article! So please show us the link.

[wasserscheu]

Hi,

check the "funny loaches thread"

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... c&start=15

you can use that pic, if you like, and tell them about their habit of going into pipes (bamboo in nature, etc).

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o143 ... 0930-F.jpg

there is my clown shown in 13' long pipe here, "ask them" why they pick the small pipes rather than the 4"?!

please copy the following entire link manually into the browser for viewing the entire post, thanks

http://www.aquaristikimdetail.net/wbb3/ ... nterdruck/

my picture in my German post



I have this vision of making it possible, for the loaches to swim around the entire room (circle like). The door obviousley is some obsticle in the way, above you see a test setup of a waterbridge 4' abpove the waterlevel of the tank-network. The problem is, the water gases out at that hight and thus creates airbubles. The under-presure equals about an elevation of 1500m. Garras love it, Clowns use it occasionally only. They hate the naked tank the bridge leads to.

Tanja, you can als use the pics in my theread here, if any fit your needs there.

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... nuts+trash

Have fun

P.S.: I just noticed, there were stil Amano shrimps in the tank. The shrimps were left alone from all loaches until I added a 6" Sinibotia pulchra. Then the shrimps somehow disappeard.

[starsplitter7]

Thank you to everyone who helped me with the article. I really appreciate all the pictures and support.

I sent about 50 pictures to Mike Jacobs (President of the TBAS club and the newsletter and website editor), and he picked a few due to space restraints.

I hope to write more articles in the future, and be able to use more of the pictures that were sent to me.

Thanks again.
http://tbas1.com/TBASpdf/TBASoctob20010.pdf