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- A detailed look at the Reticulated Hillstream Loach with information about their anatomy, how the sex them, how to set up their tank, how to pick their tankmates, what to feed them, how to breed them, and how to raise their babies. All accompanied by stunning visuals and a calm soothing narration style.
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We need more content like this on TH-cam. Thanks.
Thank you so much. More to come. ❤
@@TheDave333yayyy
30 minutes of hillstream loach footage? Mom, bring The chips, we wont sleep tonight!
Good stuff for sure. 😊
This guy deserves more, he's the definition of quality over quantity.
Thanks! 😊
I never fail to learn from your informative and expertly filmed and narrated productions. Thank you!
You're very welcomer! I love making them. 😊
I got my first Hillstreams yesterday, hopefully a breeding pair. I love them so much!
That's awesome! Best of luck.
I got a group of 5 in my 30 gallon long and I was so scared they’d die, but they have been breeding like crazy I have fry in all different sizes. I keep them with cherry shrimp, a group of guppies and snails! My Hillstream loaches and shrimp are breeding more than my guppies lol. I keep them in tap water and do water changes weekly
Looking into getting a 55 gallon tank with lots of rocks for my loaches! They are absolutely my favorite aquatic creature/ pet! Also
Amazing video
Thanks for watching the video and sharing your experiences. And nice work on getting them to breed so frequently.
Without a doubt; this is the most complete guide there is to these fish. Thank you so much! - Ramón 🇲🇽
You're very welcome / thanks for watching!
can you keep them in a rimless tank? or do they jump out of it?
They don't really jump, but there's a very good possibility that they will climb out of a rimless tank. Watch this other hillstream loach video of mine and you'll see exactly what I mean. th-cam.com/video/D1z80_yS9VY/w-d-xo.html
Very enjoyable thanks and timely also just started a similar tank.
Awesome! Best of luck they're really interesting fish.
Love your channel. The cinematography and information are incredible. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! Will do!
Some nice close up shots there...
What lens do you use for that?
100 mm macro lens
Buckling up, let's go!
I debated whether or not to leave that in for a very long time. . .
Keep it, your videos are good
thanks
once again great video , now i want to buy hillstream loaches
And this is how you end up with a room full of tanks. . . ❤
These guys are super hardy, I had them breed in my 75 gal fancy goldfish tank. Captured some fry, let a few live in the tank with the adults.
I dumped my canister filter water into a disgusting kiddie pool full of pest snails that i culture for my pea puffers. I hadn't noticed, since the water is pure green and murky. But I guess some of those left over fry must have made their way into my canister when I cleaned it months ago. I randomly noticed one full-grown dart away from my hand when I picked up some snails.
The snail tub has no filter, no oxygenation besides some floating plants. No water changes, I have just been topping it off with nasty tank water after water changes. They're bulletproof. I've even thrown dead fish in there to feed the snails.
Beautiful; story. Nature will find a way. Amazing fish!
I’ve kept them for years but learned so much from you. I have a 40g breeder nano tank now and they regularly produce babies. So entertaining to watch! Thanks for the info and terrific footage!
That's awesome! Thanks for watching. 😁
Nerp. My hillstream loach can handle moderate tropical temos and moderate water flow. I love smooth rocks but had no idea this was good for the loaches
I've seen flutter channels but didn't know that's what they are
Thanks for watching another video. I love my hillstream loaches too, they're in my top ten list of favorite fish.
I heard the folks at Aquarium Co-op have kept them in tanks with high temperatures, tanks with no filters, tropical community tanks, etc…
Showed no signs of stress or sickness, even ended up breeding without any intervention from the fish keepers!
Like many river dwellers (danios for example) they’re very hardy
While I understand the idea of recreating their natural environment as closely as possible, it seems they’ll do well in a wide range of set ups as long as conditions remain stable
Yes, they are quite adaptable.
@@garg4531 😮 had no idea. That's awesome
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
Thank you! Will do! 🦈🐟🦐🦠
Best relax during Saturday night is to watch this beautiful, immersive video with hill stream loaches. One of them, male who chase other fish, who like one stone is, I suppose, the victorious kink from previous video. I see that those loaches have some common behaviour like plecos - they love chase each other during feeding. Is their entertainment not aggression, I mean plecos. I only suppose about loaches, maybe I'm wrong. Regarding tiny babies must be difficult to keep aquarium clean, free from rotten food. Is it possible to keep any sanitary crews with them?
The sanitary crews are the snails, and the countless worms and other invertebrates that share the tank. No food lasts long enough to rot.
@@TheDave333 thank you, l thought that snails' waste pollute the water. But it seems that it become fertilizer for plants.
Yes, fertilizer for plants, and food for tiny invertebrates.
This is dope….
Thanks!
Hi how are u ? Thanks for the amazing video! Do u think the neocaridinas can eat the hailstorm eggs?
I'm not sure, I've never kept the two together. Some people use neocaridina shrimp to tend to their fish eggs and keep them free of fungus, so it may be safe???
Great video! I have been lucky in that my hillstream loaches have been reproducing for me in a heavily planted and decorated 120 gallon tank. I have had so many that I have had to try and sell some, so not to over load the tank. However, as you probably know, they are very hard to catch! I have resorted to trapping them in a breeder net box, on it's side with algae wafers as bait. I have fishing line tied to the box and when the loaches enter to feed, I pull the box up. Works ok but has to be repeated over and over again to actually get a good number caught. How do you catch yours? Thanks
I use a bottle trap and bait, or I trap them on the glass when they're small with a plastic cup. It isn't easy though. 😁
@@TheDave333 These are helpful suggestions for catching them. Can you give any more details about the design of the bottle trap? I need to figure out how to get some the larger offspring out of my community tank for a friend who wants some.
Thanks for this video. i got covid so my wife quarantined me to my fish cave . I've been bingeing on fish videos for days!
Sorry to hear that you're sick. I had it a couple years back, and it knocked me out for a couple weeks. I slept most of the time. I wish you a speedy recovery.
I have been planning to get some hillstream loaches for a new tank. I had several species picked out. I am now re-thinking the whole thing because of this wonderful video. I now have the difficult decision of deciding on one species. It's kind of a tossup between the reticulated and the very similar red-tailed hillstream loach. I do have rock in the tank, but it is all flat slate rock, not rounded river rock. There is also an area of fine sand at the front of the tank which I intended for cryptic corydoras. Since corys prefer warmer water and hillstream loaches prefer cooler water, it would probably be best to give the corys a miss until the next tank gets made. I will also need to re-think some of the plants I have included in this tank and make them more hillstream loach friendly. I do have some anubius in the tank, but I also have some fine feathery plants which were going to be for baby shrimp to hid out in. I have three freshwater clams in the tank, and two freshwater mussels in there which should do fine in the same setup as the hillstream loaches have. The tank is rimless and well lit, but it lacks a lid. Therefore, because of this fantastic video, I will be purchasing one soon.
In a way, I feel like I'm going to be starting over with this tank in order to meet the needs of these little fish. I see that as a good thing though, as I now understand what makes a good environment for hillstream loaches, and above all, I like to provide the best and most enriching environment for any animal I keep. I don't want to keep a concentration camp or a prison. I want to keep animals where they can live their best possible life; a place where they are always feel happy and safe. Your video was just what I needed to understand how this is done. Thank you for taking the time to create this absolutely masterfully made and produced video!
Thank you so much for watching the video and taking the time to leave a comment. Those fish sound lucky to have such a thoughtful and considerate fish-keeper. Best of luck with whatever you decide to do. ❤
Very nice fish!! Great presentation as usual 👏
One of my dream fish 🐟
They are really awesome!
FINALLY a very informative and high quality video about hillstream loaches. I've been struggling to find something helpful at all. To top it off, it did not surprise me to see it was coming from you. Awesome 🙌🏻
Awesome, thank you! I really hope that the video is helpful. 😁
One of my favorite fish to watch! They’re just so cute!
Mine too! 😁
very high-quality content, very useful for biologists and fish tank hobbyists. felt that it was presented by a biology professor.
thank you very much.
Wow, thank you!
How is there so much flow? It looks like there's only a sponge filter. I was planning on setting up a river manifold system for Sewellia lineolata, but if you can get that flow, I may just use sponge filters.
Hi thanks for watching the video. I normally run the tank as a low flow setup just as I described in the video, but as I was making the video, I thought that in order to do these fish justice they needed to be filmed with a current. So, I created some flow using a powerhead / wave maker.
I used a Freesea 1050 GPH wave maker powerhead to create the current. Any powerhead will do, but the fish are in danger of being drawn into the pump intake. So, I completely enclosed the pump in a filter media bag in order to keep the fish from harm. And that's when I discovered that they really like the moving water!!! They seemed to be playing in it and surfing the "waves". And I think that it encouraged them to spawn. . . I'm going to experiment with it a lot more.
I put a link to the wave maker in the description section of the video. A simple powerhead can create a lot of flow, but you've always got to keep the babies from getting in. A manifold system using sponges would work as well.
It's a lot more complicated to put together, and I don't think it's really needed to keep them happy and healthy.
@@TheDave333 Thanks for sharing your insights! Do you think it's possible to maintain a successful breeding tank with high flow from a wave maker without separating fry? Is the filter media bag a long-term fix or is there something better like encasing the wave maker in sponges? Gastromyzontidae and Balitoridae are easily my favorite fish and this will be my first time keeping them
Yes it's possible to breed the adults, and raise the fry in a tank with the flow from a wave maker. (The one I have
really isn't all that strong.) In my tank, the filter media bag was a good fix. However, I didn't really like
the way it looked. But, it was effective. I considered encasing the wave maker in sponges, but it would've been cumbersome and hard to clean. The filter media bag was the simplest fix. One of the really nice things about the wave maker was the magnetic mount. It's so much better than suction cups!
Personally, I would use a powerhead with a fine sponge attached to the water intake. It looks better than the media bag over the wave maker, and it's just as effective. They don't need much flow, but a little certainly helps.
I have one in a 29gal, with an oto cat, and nerite snail and they get along just well
Nice! They're such bizarre fish.
Happy New Year, Dave! Also, a very illuminating performance!
Thank you Chi and It's good to see your comments again. I noticed you were missing for a few days. 😊
Lodi New York in the house I love loaches I'm working on a 55gal tank and setting up a Hillstream tank between now and March..
That's awesome. Loaches are fun. 😁
Ive bought these a few times but they never last long for me 2 to 3 months at best
That's a bummer . . .
@@TheDave333 it is
Love me me loaches
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
Thank you so much! ❤
Do you know what's cooler than cowboys? The Royal Canadian Mounties!
Are they though, are they really? Those horses do not agree. . .
@@TheDave333 I saw them when I was in Canada in 2019 and 2023.
That's interesting. I saw them when I went to Niagara Falls as a kid with my parents.
What’s the max size of these fishes ?
MIne max out at around 2.5 inches ( 6.4 CM)
I have both Reticulated and Brown Mosaics now in two different tanks one of which is a dedicated breeding tank for the Reticulated. But the Brown Mosaics have also breed in a community tank. I was a bit on the fence about putting a snail or two in the breeding tank. If you started over would you still put snails in a breeding tank for these guys?
If I started over, just to be on the safe side, I wouldn't keep snails in their tank. They eat the spinach leaves meant for the loaches, and might even eat the eggs if they find them.
Cool fish I like their look
Me too! Like little sting rays, very alien looking. . .
Alright, you convinced me, imma save some money and set up my own breeding tank, this are my favorito oddball fish and was not aware that it isnt so difficult to reproduce :D
Go for it. They're not as difficult as some people say. They are a bit pricey, but well worth it!
Loved this and now you made me want them Dave! Awsome job!!!
Go for it! They're amazing fish!
This is truly my most awaited video in quite some time, writing this comment before the watch.
Be sure to let me know what you thought when it's done.
I completely understand that everyone comes from different backgrounds, but when you've imported and raised discus, I was expecting a lot more when they said these loaches were expensive LOL I can't wait to start breeding these in a species-only tank!
I love breeding Hillstream Loaches, and they'll be easier to sell than Discus. The less expensive fish sell faster. . .
I've had a setup exactly like yours in a 33L for months and have seen no babies. My water temperature is around 65-68F, so do you think warming them up a bit might send them into spawning?
Yes, it might. Mine seem to spawn more when summer weather arrives and the water climbs up to near 80 F !
Be sure to give them lots of protein. I use Hikari carnivore pellets and they go crazy for it, they like it more than the spinach I give them. And be sure there are no other fish in the tank preying on the babies or the eggs. Be patient and best of luck. They're well worth the effort!
Amazing video, like usual.
I’d like to ask, how did you achieve the high water flow seen throughout the video? I would imagine a power head would be dangerous for any fry, unless you used a prefilter sponge? And no powerhead was mentioned in the tank setup, so did you only use it for filming, and flow is kept low in the tank usually? Thanks!
Hi, and thanks for watching another video. I was waiting for someone to notice the flow and wonder where it was coming from! I used a Freesea 1050 GPH wave maker powerhead that was enclosed in a filter media bag in order to keep the fish from harm. I normally just run the tank as a low flow setup just as I described in the video, but as I was making the video, I thought that in order to do these fish justice they needed to be filmed with a current. And that's when I discovered that they really like the moving water!!! They seemed to be playing in it and surfing the "waves".
And I think that it encouraged them to spawn. . . I'm going to experiment with it a lot more. I put a link to the wave maker in the description section of the video.
That makes sense, thanks!
This video is making me think of setting up a species tank like you have… I had a few with goldfish before and I really ended up liking them. I have a 29 gallon I’m looking to overhaul, and I’m thinking about making it a more low-effort breeding project tank so I might just go with these guys.
Anyway, thanks for the reply!
You're very welcome, and best of luck in the New Year.
What an absolutely terrific, informative and very watchable video Dave. You a truly very talented in every way - I’m not normally full of gushing praise (as a long term hobbyist and retired teacher)😂. On the point of suitable tank mates maybe white cloud mountain minnows could be suitable? Maybe, one day my video efforts will approach your standards (I doubt it!). 🤓👍
Thanks for the high praise my friend. Yes, white clouds would be a perfect pairing. I've seen your work Paul,
and you breed lots of different fish. It's impressive, so my hat goes off to you.
Dude I have the softest of soft spots for these loaches, loved the video! I was considering a shallowish hi-flow tank dedicated to these, now I'm convinced! I'm quite sure I now know everything I'd want to about these, and then some. Your video - showed so many more details than I can see with the naked eye right here even. Thank you so much!
I glad you liked the video, I have a soft spot for these fish as well! btw - I used a Freesea 1050 GPH wave maker powerhead that was enclosed in a filter media bag in order to keep the fish from harm. I normally just run the tank as a low flow setup just as I described in the video, but as I was making the video, I thought that in order to do these fish justice they needed to be filmed with a current. And that's when I discovered that they really like to play in the moving water!!! They seemed to be a lot more active with the flow, playing in it and surfing the "waves".
Hey man did you ever think to apply the Nation World Geographic?
No, I haven't. Thanks for watching the video.
Great video! What are your thoughts on keeping several species of HS loaches in a single tank?
As long as they're not able to interbreed and hybridize, then I'm all in.
Excellent video, Really informative I'm in the process of building a tank especially for some of these at the moment. I have some rocks out in the garden in a shallow container already, in the hope of getting plenty of algae growing on them ready to put in the tank once it is finished.
It would be good if you could let us know what the PH and GH of the water is . Many thanks
My pH is around 6.5, and I'm not sure of the GH, but I's say that it's moderately soft water.
I realy love the you put effort of the video ❤
Thank you so much!
how do you get that much algae in your tank?
In the beginning, I started with no fish, and left a super bright light on for 24 hours a day.
EXCELENTE video!!👍🏻 Gracias,🙏🏻
¡Ningún problema! Gracias por ver el vídeo y tomarse el tiempo de dejar un comentario. 😁😁😁
Excellent informative video with amazing videography and outstanding quality! As for “that voice” ❤ I would listen to it even if you were to recite the telephone book 😂 Looking forward to more content. 👏
Wow, thank you! 😁
These little guys are so much fun. I've had several and they all have very cool personalities.
I agree 100% 😁
I’ve been googling loaches compatible with my tank after finding out the dojo loach is illegal in my state! You’ve sold me, thanks for the care guide here’s to hoping I’ll find a few at an upcoming expo :)
I highly recommend these fish. They're amazing, easy to keep, easy to feed, and they don't need high flow setups. I hope you find them too! ❤️
dream fish
They really are, they're so alien looking. I love them.
undoubtedly the most complete video I have seen on this species of fish❤. Thank you so much ! I will carefully watch your old and future videos.👍
Thanks! 😁 I tend to be very thorough, and I'm sure that you will love my other work as well.
Fascinating! Another fish obsession is born. 😃
These fish are so much fun to watch. I'm happy to feed the fish obsession. 🐠🦈🐟
Do you have experience with any of them becoming thinner, less active and eventually pass away?
I had a few that did and am looking for a cure.
Luckily, I haven't experienced anything like that. Do you think it's an illness / disease?
Hey dave. I just got a group of 5 for my community tank. Its got angels, congos, rainbows, torpedos, cherry barbs, and some other community fish. Its a rather densely planted tank with many hiding spaces. I was wondering if it was a bad idea to keep these with all of these fish. I got a great deal for them which made it a no brainer for me to buy them but now im kinda worried that I shouldve probably kept them in a species only tank.
It really depends on what you plan on doing with the loaches. If you want to breed them, then a species only tank would be best. If you don't intend on breeding them, then a community tank will be fine as long as it's big enough to hold everyone. The only ones that might get really aggressive are the angels if they pair up and decide to spawn.
@@TheDave333 oh great then. As far as I know all of my angels are males so hopefully no aggression. I did notice one of the angels a bit curious about them and was trying to pick on one of them but the hillstream just vanished in a sec😂
Thanks for sharing sir excellent information as always 😊
My pleasure 😊
Thank you for such a high quality video and detailed information! I'm looking to set up my first breeding tank, so I'm trying to do as much research beforehand. From what I've read, snails are opportunistic feeders that eat viable eggs. I would greatly appreciate if you could explain why you decided to include them. Does the benefit of substrate aeration and eating leftover waste outweigh any eaten eggs? Or do you not observe the eggs being eaten?
Thanks for watching the video. I didn't want snails in the tank but they snuck in with the substrate. I've never seen the Hillstream eggs, so I can't say for sure if the snails are eating them. If I could, I would get rid of them just to be safe.
@@TheDave333 I'll keep that in mind, and thanks for the insight!
You're welcome, anytime and best of luck, they're amazing fish. .
I had breeding angel fish with ramshorn snails, and I watched them trying to eat the eggs. Luckily, the parents killed and ate the snails.
I was wondering why there was a big pile of snail shells under where the angels spawned. Go figure, the parents are smart, lol.
I'm getting five or six for my 40g community tank, not so much for breeding them.
Good luck with yours
The quality of your macro video shots is just fantastic. Excellent work! It is easier to see the morphological details in your video than it is in person, in my own tank!
Thanks for highlighting this wonderful species. I have them breeding in a 40 gallon "community" breeder, which also includes breeding Panda Corydoras, bristlenose, Praecox rainbows, pea puffers, and a variety of livebearers. All of those species breed, and for most -- including reticulated hillstream loaches -- some make it through the wall of mouths to and grow up. As you emphasized, I attribute that to big piles of rounded rocks, which provide shelter, and for some of the other species, the dense plants that give more shelter. But it is not the way to go if the goal is to produce lots of babies that survive.
Hello, thanks for watching the video and taking the time to leave a comment. Your tank sounds like it would be very entertaining to just sit back and watch the interplay between the different species. What a great combination of different species.
They are so cute!!!
Cute and strange at the same time. 😁
This was beautiful! Thank you so much for all the breeding information!
I’ve had mine for about 9 months, but they haven’t spawned yet. I was wondering if you knew how long it takes for them to reach sexual maturity because I couldn’t find anything online. I heard some people say that they didn’t spawn the first year but then they spawned very prolifically after that so I was just hoping that they haven’t reached sexual maturity yet. I bought them online so they probably were very young juveniles, since the store is usually sold out. Also, we’re you able to get any footage of the eggs or know how small they are? I assume they would be smaller than a grain of sand so it would be hard to look for, but I just wanted to see if I could keep an eye on them because I was worried that maybe the snails in my tank might prey on them. Sorry for all the questions, and it’s okay if you don’t have any answers for me, but it’s just nice to talk to people who are trying to breed them too. Thanks so much!!!
Hi and thanks for watching the video. There are a lot of unanswered questions about these fish. I don't have any solid information about how long it takes the eggs to hatch, their size, or how long it takes for them to reach sexual maturity. I am working on finding those answers. . . If I had to guess, based on the babies that I'm raising, I'd say that it takes about a year to reach sexual maturity. I'll know for sure by this summer when my babies are about a year old. Stay tuned for more updates. 😁
@@TheDave333 Perfect, thank you so much! I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for your videos!
Do you know if these guys will pair okay with a brustlenose pleco?
Yes, I keep together in one of my tanks. Just be sure that the bristlenose don't hog up all of the food at feeding time.
@@TheDave333 Agreed. I have breeding colonies of bristlenose and reticulated hillstream loaches in a 40 gallon breeder and they both reproduce and leave each other alone.
If I buy four or five Hillstreams for my 125 gallon tank, will they over run my tank with babies, like my Albino Bristle nose have done in the past? It's a community tank with the most peaceful fish you can buy.
They will not overrun the tank with babies. I promise. :-)
@@TheDave333 Thank you very much
@@TheDave333 Ok Thank you
You're very welcome. 😁
hey babe wake up, the dave posted another video 🎉
Quality over quantity. . . 😁
Would have liked to see your filter and what you power your flow with.
I should've included that information. I normally run this tank as a low flow setup. But for filming I used a
I used a Freesea 1050 GPH wave maker powerhead to create the current. Any powerhead will do, but the fish are in danger of being drawn into the pump intake. So, I completely enclosed the pump in a filter media bag in order to keep the fish from harm
I have no rocks or sands in my tanks, just heavily planted and they breed like crazy, started with 12, probably 50+ by now in a 40g breeder tank. I can still see them ranging from tiny babies to full grown adults.
Nice! They sound happy and healthy. 👍
What is your tank flow? What food do you feed?
Fascinating Natural beauty 😍🥰 ACE 🤩🤩🤩 hahaha
They are amazing strange little fish. ❤❤❤
fantastic video. best video on hillztream loach. wurd
Thank you so much!
My favorite guitarfish is the bowmouth. Sadly, they're critically endangered due to overfishing and habitat loss. But hopefully, their populations will rebound in the future.
Bowmouth guitar fish are really cool. I'd love to see one someday. It's really sad that so many creatures are in trouble. We need to take better care of our beautiful planet.
This is so informative and soothing to listen to. You've definitely earned a subscriber.
Awesome, thank you!
@@TheDave333 gonna be setting up a 40 breeder in the next couple of weeks and will have to keep plenty of beautiful little hillstreams. They're so adorable
A 40 breeder is the perfect tank for these fish. They really are very cute. I think it has a lot to do with their eyes.
@@TheDave333 they have the same kinda derpy adorable look as like a Kenyan sand boa. They're so cute and fun to watch.
Snakes / reptiles were my first love! I'm hoping to film a Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon) underwater in the wild.
I love these little guys. i would like these with cherry shrimp. ❤
Great idea! I've been considering pairing those two as well. 🦐🦐🦐
Wonderful videography! I have kept these fish and very much enjoy their quirky natures. Thank you for a terrific video!!
You're very welcome, thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment. :-D
Nice shots, nice fish, good info, good pacing with lots of pauses to process the info and look at the footage, but, please, your narration is extremely difficult to hear. It's so artificial, whiny... Please use your own normal voice and speaking pattern. Just like you would tell a friend.
My fish are the jealous type, so they don't really allow me to have any friends. I do have a neighbor though.
Last video i was wondering how do you could keep those amazing pattern fish so happy...well here it is!☺️
Thanks for sharing this beautiful jewel from nature.
A great job with incredible footage!
Thank you so much. 😊
What's your favorite stingray?
Spotted Eagle Ray
@@TheDave333Same!
Nice! They're beautiful fish! 🐠🦈🐟
Ride, carry LANCE! WALK MARCH! Those are the commands the Officer in Charge/Riding Master says when the Musical Ride is about to enter the arena.
Sounds like serious work! Horses are powerful animals. I've ridden one 3 or 4 times and I always felt powerless on top of them. They were in charge not me!!! I prefer to be in control...
I've had success keeping these in a laminar flow aquarium, but no luck with them breeding. Thanks for this video, these are beautiful little creatures
They are very beautiful little fish. Do you keep them with other fish?
@@TheDave333 I kept them with white cloud minnows. Currently I have them in a holding tank with neocaridinia shrimp and dwarf rasboras
The White Clouds (great choice by the way) might have been eating the Hillstream loach eggs or the babies.
Simply amazing 😍. The camera work on your videos are just fantastic. Looking forward to see more 🙂 🙌🏾
Thank you so much!!
You really encourage me to breed the Reticulated Hillstream Loaches. I’m fascinated by these fish. I’ve breed Panda Cory’s, Neon Tetras, Mollies, Guppies, and a few Neo Caradina’s Shrimp before. I’m getting ready to setup my 40 gallon breeder tank. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and technique with these fish. Where can I find more information on these fish? Thank you once again.
Hello and thanks for watching the video. You sound like a very serious fish keeper. It's so awesome that you've bred the Panda Corys and Neon Tetras. You should be proud! I don't really have any suggestions where you can find more information. There are several different TH-cam channels that have videos about them that might be helpful. They are such amazing fish.
Awesome thank you
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching.
Just got one, do I really need two more or is 1 going to be ok? 29 gallon community tank, with hob filter and two wave makers one surface and one opposite pointing down towards front left corner the circulation is intense, so far my hillstream seems happy
It's okay to keep just one. I'm sure it's loving all of that water movement. :-)
So the dimples on the fins right think of bottom of a speed boat or on wings it looks like it would creat negative down force along that line of fin reducing the downward pressure along the fin
Maybe to reduce energy consumption there pectoral and pelvic fins kinda remind me of active areo on a race car 🤷
That makes a lot of sense. Interesting idea.
I love your videos, high level of shoting and information.
I'm keeping my hillstream loach in tank with neocardina shrimp, do you think they (hillstream loach) will eat the baby shrimp?
I've never kept them with shrimp, so I can't say from first hand experience. My feeling is that as long as there are lots of plants in the tank where the shrimp can hide and an adequate supply of food for everyone, the loaches won't bother the baby shrimp.
I have a 20 liter aquarium. with 3 adults and 3 babies. Gastromyzon punctulatus 😊
Awesome! It's great that you got some babies! 😊
Amazing video and information on Hill stream loaches. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching. 😊
Great documentary!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Can i keep some bamboo shrimps and amano shrimps with these fish? What about stiphodon river gobies? Are they compatible?
Yes all three would be compatible with hillstream loaches.
More than just your videos, I love your entire channel, so much information ❤️
Wow, thank you! ❤️
5:37 I mean that's a beautiful shot. You can't see these details with naked eye.
Thank you so much! 😁
Absolutely stunning footage
Thank you so much!
I have had so much trouble feeding them. They never seem to want to eat and I don’t have much algae in the tank
Hello, sorry to hear that you're having trouble. Have you tried blanched spinach leaves? I put mine in the microwave for about 2 minutes and than attach a small plant weight so they sink. . . When they get hungry enough, most fish will eventually eat. And it may be a possibility that they're eating just not when you can see them. They're most active in the early morning and the late afternoon ( crepuscular). So, they don't really like bright light. Try feeding them at those times. They can also be a bit shy, so they might just be waiting for you to leave the room before they come out and eat.
Hopefully, they're eating something and it will work itself out in time.
So my hillstream loaches arent breeding cuz theyre all female ;-;
That would certainly explain it. :-) It going to cause quite a bit of excitement if you do get a female at some point!
This is a very interesting and informative awesome video thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching❤
Tubercules on male pectoral fins may serve as grip for female during mating dance and spawning. Look like nobody knows this, Dave it's chance for you to investigate this issue 🧐
I am investigating all sorts of things with these fish. I need information on egg size, gestation period, age of sexual maturity etc. I hope to film the eggs developing. I love a good mystery. 🧐
@@TheDave333Good luck ! I patiently wait for results 🐟
They're so cute! Fascinating creatures. 🥰
I agree, they're one of my favorite fish. :-D
I love fish videos
I love making them, so we're a good team. 😊