New Sewellia

[Jim Powers]

Feel free to ask away. Hopefully, I can help.
I agree about the sewellia. Once you get past that intially settle in period, they seem to adapt easily and eat well.
I'm going to try some blanched spinach leaves on the new fish tonight. The older fish seem to like it.

[mikev]

Feel free to ask away. Hopefully, I can help.

Sure you can. Thank you!

The new fish I'm not sure about are the gobi's, the new loaches are of reasonably familiar type. Frank was very kind to allow me to have the recent contaminants so I have them in my Q-tank now . I wanted to post pics to re-confirm what they are but this is not going to happen today: they hide worse than loaches. I'll post the pix if/when they come out.

The most important question is there anything special I need to be doing with them (or know about them), or simply treat them as hillstreams.

Sorry for the hijack.

I agree about the sewellia. Once you get past that intially settle in period, they seem to adapt easily and eat well.
I'm going to try some blanched spinach leaves on the new fish tonight. The older fish seem to like it.

Yeah, I should be giving them spinach too. Tomorrow.

[angelfish83]

As long as it's round
Loaches love the ground

I had to stare at that for awhile until I got it...

[mikev]

Best I can do for now:



Fingers very much crossed, but maybe I'll finally have luck with these other guys. Vannies have always been a disaster fish for me (maybe they are the-most-difficult hillstream sp.), but this time the new Vannies behave pretty actively and even decided to feed almost right away, this had never happened before. (Those Carnivour Pellets, of all things).

[Jim Powers]

Nice vannies.
The new Sewellia have now settled in well. They have been eating pellets, brine and bloodworms and blanced spinach leaves. They have also been coming out more. An interesting observation on behavior. The new male and female pair to not engage in the fights that the two males and one female in the other tank do. Less testosterone I guess.
They also get along well with the smithi, beaufortia, S. wui, and G. scitulus in the tank. I have not seen much in the way of territorial battles.

[wasserscheu]

Try him with thawed frozen bloodworm. ...

... You were right, Bloodworms was the first thing I saw him take. ... puts his head up, and like a rabbit, pulls it in bite by bite...

Wolfram

[grizzlyone]

Jim:

Have you been back to your favorite Indiana shop? I haven't heard from Doug about any new Sewellia that he might have gotten in.. I'm beginning to think he might have forgottn about me




Thanks,

Kevin

[Jim Powers]

I was there Wednesday. They had one female Sewellia left. I'm sure he hasn't forgotten about you. This tends to be a slow couple of weeks for fish purchases and I bet they haven't been on the list.

[grizzlyone]

Ahh, ok,

I just figured they might stock up a bit before the holidays and was hoping that I could get up that way with some of the time I have off.


Cheers,


Kevin