guess what! I’m 13 and I’m proud to say my Betta t is in a 5 gallon with consistent tank changes! I now have ordered a sponge filter and they should be here this week I’m so happy that I value my betas life. No, I do not have a heater but I am working on getting this ASAP, please no hate comments I’m really trying my best and I’m really proud of my work also I hope you see this because you inspired me to change to a sponge filter!😁🐟🐠
I'm a bit late but Bettas are awesome. They love interacting with you, can learn tricks and enjoy appropriate toys! I'm glad you are doing your best for your fishy friends
I just got 2 Hillstream today. They are so funny! Those blinking eyes sticking out is so adorable! I always wanted to keep Pea puffers, but the food requirement is a dealbreaker.
Kuli loach..."they've got these black little beady eyes" made me lol. They DO have beady little eyes. 😂 👍💓👍 P/S I want to see a tank with little hillstream loach babies.
I've been keeping kuhli loach for the past 40 years and still not tired of them. Another loach that I wish was more common is the P. Shelfordii. I've only seen it once at an LFS. A Kuhli loach with spots instead of stripes!
This set me off watching your other videos about Hillstream Loaches lol, they're fascinating I've got to get one! I love Khuli Loaches too, I think they're my favourite fish - the ultimate party dude's clubbin' it after dark😎
I haven't had the chance to own hillstream loachs yet, but I have enjoyed the rest of this list, so I'm sure I'll love Hsl. Kuhli's are my favorite oddball fish rn. I got a bakers dozen, built them hides, gave them different (soft) substrate, and gave them a heavy planted tank. Their behavior is so different now. Simply the cutest wiggly fish you could hope for.
I absolutely adore my hillstreams! They’re such perfect little fish. I love when they “doot doot” across the tank. Such fascinating and enjoyable fishies :)
I have two reticulated hillstream loaches (Sewellia lineolata) and one borneo sucker (Pseudogastromyson myseri) and 4-6 kuhli loaches (I put in 6, but only ever see 4 at a time... not sure if there are still 6). They're such fun fish, so cute, and I love that they're shrimp safe! I definitely think more people would get hillstream loaches if there wasn't so much misinformation online about them requiring fast flow, but they can also be hard to find. None of my local fish stores keep them in regular stock, I had to order them online from a few cities away.
Will also buy those hillstream loachdz and Kuhliis. Such amazing fishes. Can't wait to start with the hobby as I receive my 240liter aquarium next week!☺️
I only have 1 kuhli loach,my dad caught it when it was flooding(it's very normal for my country)while catching some fish to eat. Im worried that it might not do well in my 10 gallon planted tank,but luckily it seems well and active,i do plant more heavily to provide hiding spots
I love my kuhli loaches. I have six of them in my heavily planted, lots of hardscape 100 gallon tank. You'd think they would disappear and I'd never see them, but they are really active and energetic and I can usually spot at least three or four at all times.
@@Pallidum I've got nine Black Khulis, and I can usually glance at my tank and count off around 5 of them. They were skittish of their Cory tank mates for all of three hours before they realized everyone was peaceful.
Question: Do you think you're do more experimentations with aquatic amphibians like African dwarph frogs and newts? I've especially heard that adf's make pretty good tankmates with most fish with having around the same amount of success as a betta. :)
I can say from experience that adf WILL go after a betta and vice-versa. IF adf can be kept in community tanks I’d think it would only work if the tank is large, the fish are all bigger than the adf, and the fish be herbivores.
I keep a couple of adf's in a tank together with my guppies so they can eat their offspring and I don't get an overcrowded tank. You shouldn't keep adf's in a big tank because those are probably too deep for them, as they need to go to the surface to breathe.
@@carriephillips6054 Happy early Bday;) I got mine this Monday and they're mesmerizing to watch sliding from the glass to the substrate. They're more fun to watch than my clown plecos which I swear they're pet rocks.
I have two hillstream loaches in my 20 long and I adore them! They are super cute and always active day and night. I think people shy away from them because everyone says they need fast moving water. After seeing a video that Cory had done where he said they do fine in a slow moving tank I went for it and I am very happy that I did.
thanks for making this video! i saw it back when you posted it and have been thinking about sewellia ever since! i even made a stream tank (not quite "hillstream" since i have some plants, but it's close) and finally found three that were the same species (sewellia albisuera). thanks again for the inspiration :)
I had two (2) Kooly Loaches, but each of them died when they propelled themselves out of my tall 55" tank. It was at different times/dates. After flying out of the tank, they fell several feet before hitting the ground. They died within days of what I must assume were massive internal injuries due to the fall. Too bad because they were cool! Great coloring!
I put 5 Clown Loaches in a 29 gallon community tank of several varieties of fish. I was expecting the Clowns to bond to each other. I even put a cave inside so they could hang out. However, they don't seem to be interested in schooling, preferring to swim independently.
When she says kuhli loaches are harder she means it😭 in my way home after purchasing some I tripped on my skateboard and my bag popped! My loaches were in the ground flopping around😭 i quickly pryed them of the ground with multiple fails cuz of how wormy and slippery they are untill i finally picked all of them up into the little water left in my bag. 4 months later mine are thriving and happy :)
My 2 Hillstream Loaches are always together and never fight. With my 2 Clown Plecos and my 10 Armano Shrimps they’re my little workers. I have soft water with 2 sponge filters in a 30 gal tank. Everyone seems happy too.
Pigmy puffers also don't play well with inverts. They'll eat your snails and your shrimps. One thing you can do for them though, is get a tank really green with algae, let snails grow and multiply in it (and they will multiply if there's lots of algae), then throw them in the puffer tank when their numbers start getting up there. Personally, I can't bare to do that, so I don't keep puffers. It's almost limitless free food for people who can though. Also, feeding them live snails will keep their teeth worn down to a desirable level so you don't have to trim them yourself, which risks all manner of problems, including the death of the puffer fish. Personally, I'd rather stick with my hillstream loaches, rocket tails, cardinal tetras, and corys. I'm right with you about hillstream loaches. They are awesome. I'm not quite sure why they qualify as oddballs in the industry because loaches aren't rare in the hobby, and neither are fish which will clean the glass. They are just cool little fish, and every single one of them which I have had has personality by the truck load.
Kuhli loach are great, I had 2 but thought I'd lost one, then found him in the internal power filter, how long he'd been in there I'll never know, or how he got in. Returned to tank with his mate, and they now seem to spend more daylight time active. Definitely a taking point when people see the tank.
Voltron was a male btw. Female peacock gudgeons have a bright yellow belly, black tip fins, and also a pointed face. Most people say the female gudgeons are the prettier ones.
I would love to do some pea puffers, but I'm afraid I wouldn't have good luck with them!! Another fish I would like to get are some micro dragon gobies? I'm not sure what the species name is... Alex from @the secret history living in your aquarium got some, they're really cool although they stay hid in the sand most of the time 🤣 Another fish I really like is a whiptail catfish.. I don't know what it is about them I just love them!! Thanks for sharing Irene.. I just love the oddballs!! Have a wonderful and blessed Memorial Day weekend!!🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
So I wasn’t going to get a hillstream loach because the info says it need fast moving water. So you are keeping them with just a spine finlter and doing fine?
I have 6 kuhli loaches in a 16g tank with c habrosus. I rarely ever see them. I like the hill stream loach. When I ever get a tank conducive to a stream setup I’ll get a few.
I had experience with marbled hatchet fish. They are really cool, awesome fish, but they have a tendency to jump. A LOT. And I mean I had 3 of them and all of them died becuse they found a way to jump out of the tank. Which is something im still bewildered by to this day. My tank has a top, and the only small opening is at the back főt the cables of the equipment to go through. I even put a small plastic piece at one of these openings as a precaution. Didn't stop them. So if anyone plans on keeping them, make sure to have as little to no openings on your lid. Otherwise they will find a way.
Some of the sewellia in the video do not look like sewellia lineonata to me. I saw them sold seperately in the fish store under another latin name. The lineonata was very calm and didn't mind me looking at them, but the other kind was super shy, bigger and with another pattern on their bodies. Finer dots. Some of your sewellia look more like those ones.
As multiple people in the Hobby have pointed out, that's the O2 levels that causes that. You can get them to spawn (a sign of perfect conditions in the fishes point of view) in a tank with near zero flow, as long as it has a lot of dissolved O2. A high flow is the EASIEST way to do this, however their are other ways including a combination of heavy plants and CO2 injection (which can lead to pearling a sign of complete O2 saturation in the water) or Airstone as long as it has a decent air pump AND defuses the bubbles well decently.
Most of the nano fish I've kept like slower flow, so I just look to see if they're being whipped around the tank too much. Not sure how to judge if the flow is fast enough, but I do try to avoid any dead spots in the tank or oil slicks at the surface.
For the Hillstream Loach, what would you do for a minimum tank size? I am looking for an algae eater for our 10 gallon tank that has 1 betta and 4 tetras (2 tetras died and I kind of want to replace them with a cleaner fish...)
Same here last year we got six hatchetfish and they infected my whole tank with ich. About 50 odd fish died. I didnt quarantine sadly:(( my tank recovered however and we had 70 corydoras babies and 30 Guppy babys.
Oh, I'm so glad to hear that! Unfortunately most of the hatchetfish were too far gone, even when I re-dosed Paraguard, but thankfully the rest of the fish all survived and some of them never even got any spots (that I could see).
I would love to get some Hillstream Loaches, but where I live, I've never seen them. I guess I could find somewhere to order them. I'm not 100% sure about doing that though. I don't know, maybe it would be fine.
I'd love to get some hillstream loaches but I have a pair of apistogramma cacatuoides. Do you know how they'd do together? It's a heavily planted 55 gallon.
Just sayin, bettas are fun, but if you can find some, think about gardneri/steel blue killifish. They have incredible colours and are easy to breed. Good luck anyway
In my experience kuhli loaches are not hardy, not hardy with diseases that is. They die so easily with medicine overdose and stress..still love them tho
Also I can never keep my hillstream loaches alive, they die within a day and I never understand why besides temp or oxygen. I'll prob try again In my 40 gallon
*What's your favorite oddball nano fish that fits in 20 gallons or less?*
Kuhli loach
Kuhli loachess
I love my betta and White Cloud Mountain minnows
Hi this is kinda unrelated but I’m planning to get my first betta! And I just wanted to say thanks for all the great information and I can’t wait!!
@@funnylaugh.1069 good luck!
guess what! I’m 13 and I’m proud to say my Betta t is in a 5 gallon with consistent tank changes! I now have ordered a sponge filter and they should be here this week I’m so happy that I value my betas life. No, I do not have a heater but I am working on getting this ASAP, please no hate comments I’m really trying my best and I’m really proud of my work also I hope you see this because you inspired me to change to a sponge filter!😁🐟🐠
That's so awesome! I'm so glad I could be of some help. Best of luck with upgrading your betta fish's tank. 😊
That's great
@@GirlTalksFish I can’t believe you responded Thank you so much I look up to your amazing fish keeping videos!
I'm a bit late but Bettas are awesome. They love interacting with you, can learn tricks and enjoy appropriate toys! I'm glad you are doing your best for your fishy friends
@@HJ-pm2dx Thank you so much!
I just got 2 Hillstream today. They are so funny! Those blinking eyes sticking out is so adorable!
I always wanted to keep Pea puffers, but the food requirement is a dealbreaker.
you do know that you can feed them frozen blood worms
They aren't puffers, but gold ring danios have a nice yellow and black color and are about the same size, plus they are friendly.
I give Girl talks fish 5 out of 5 stars 💙
10/5
Awww, shucks 😊
I know want to be friends with her. Lol
Are you kidding me that is insultingly low
simpppppppp
Kuli loach..."they've got these black little beady eyes" made me lol. They DO have beady little eyes. 😂
👍💓👍
P/S I want to see a tank with little hillstream loach babies.
Me tooooo! 👶👶👶
I've been keeping kuhli loach for the past 40 years and still not tired of them. Another loach that I wish was more common is the P. Shelfordii. I've only seen it once at an LFS. A Kuhli loach with spots instead of stripes!
This set me off watching your other videos about Hillstream Loaches lol, they're fascinating I've got to get one! I love Khuli Loaches too, I think they're my favourite fish - the ultimate party dude's clubbin' it after dark😎
Lol, I love the way you put it with them being the late night partiers! 🎶
Got my first hillstream loaches lat week because of your videos. I love them, thank you for giving me the confidence to get them.
Hillstream loaches are so cute! Glad they got such a good score : D
I haven't had the chance to own hillstream loachs yet, but I have enjoyed the rest of this list, so I'm sure I'll love Hsl. Kuhli's are my favorite oddball fish rn. I got a bakers dozen, built them hides, gave them different (soft) substrate, and gave them a heavy planted tank. Their behavior is so different now. Simply the cutest wiggly fish you could hope for.
I absolutely adore my hillstreams! They’re such perfect little fish. I love when they “doot doot” across the tank. Such fascinating and enjoyable fishies :)
Lol, same here!
I have two reticulated hillstream loaches (Sewellia lineolata) and one borneo sucker (Pseudogastromyson myseri) and 4-6 kuhli loaches (I put in 6, but only ever see 4 at a time... not sure if there are still 6). They're such fun fish, so cute, and I love that they're shrimp safe!
I definitely think more people would get hillstream loaches if there wasn't so much misinformation online about them requiring fast flow, but they can also be hard to find. None of my local fish stores keep them in regular stock, I had to order them online from a few cities away.
Will also buy those hillstream loachdz and Kuhliis. Such amazing fishes.
Can't wait to start with the hobby as I receive my 240liter aquarium next week!☺️
I only have 1 kuhli loach,my dad caught it when it was flooding(it's very normal for my country)while catching some fish to eat. Im worried that it might not do well in my 10 gallon planted tank,but luckily it seems well and active,i do plant more heavily to provide hiding spots
Kuhli Loach Supremacy 🌟
I love my kuhli loaches. I have six of them in my heavily planted, lots of hardscape 100 gallon tank. You'd think they would disappear and I'd never see them, but they are really active and energetic and I can usually spot at least three or four at all times.
@@Pallidum I've got nine Black Khulis, and I can usually glance at my tank and count off around 5 of them. They were skittish of their Cory tank mates for all of three hours before they realized everyone was peaceful.
I never realized how cute hill stream loaches are until I saw this video!
You are getting me thru my first nano tank 🥺❣️
Thanks so much!
My local Petco called the hillstream loaches butterfly loaches. I picked one up for my daughter and we really love him.
Question: Do you think you're do more experimentations with aquatic amphibians like African dwarph frogs and newts? I've especially heard that adf's make pretty good tankmates with most fish with having around the same amount of success as a betta. :)
I can say from experience that adf WILL go after a betta and vice-versa. IF adf can be kept in community tanks I’d think it would only work if the tank is large, the fish are all bigger than the adf, and the fish be herbivores.
I keep a couple of adf's in a tank together with my guppies so they can eat their offspring and I don't get an overcrowded tank. You shouldn't keep adf's in a big tank because those are probably too deep for them, as they need to go to the surface to breathe.
@@robinfarrar3493 0 fish are purely herbivore
@@himlolo Umm…I didn’t say they were.
I have always wanted a hillstream loach.
Aquahuna sells 2 for $20. Pretty cheap.
@@DLMyth2 I never see them at my LFS. Maybe I will treat myself to Aqua Hana order for my birthday. Thanks for the tip!
@@carriephillips6054 Happy early Bday;) I got mine this Monday and they're mesmerizing to watch sliding from the glass to the substrate. They're more fun to watch than my clown plecos which I swear they're pet rocks.
@@DLMyth2 😆
“Kuhli coaches are thin” my kuhlis are the thickness of a cigar
Baby ones and young ones are thin. Full blown adults are chubby lol 😆
That kuhil loach would freak the heck out of unsuspecting people! I want one.
They need to be in schools of 5 or more in a 20 gallon or larger.
I have two hillstream loaches in my 20 long and I adore them! They are super cute and always active day and night. I think people shy away from them because everyone says they need fast moving water. After seeing a video that Cory had done where he said they do fine in a slow moving tank I went for it and I am very happy that I did.
Thanks for this! I was eying them for my 30 and thought of putting a current in! Glad to know they can thrive elsewhere.
Do you see them often?
@@midas2252 , Yes! I see mine all of the time. Of course they do disappear from time to time but they are out more than hiding.
thanks for making this video! i saw it back when you posted it and have been thinking about sewellia ever since! i even made a stream tank (not quite "hillstream" since i have some plants, but it's close) and finally found three that were the same species (sewellia albisuera). thanks again for the inspiration :)
I had two (2) Kooly Loaches, but each of them died when they propelled themselves out of my tall 55" tank. It was at different times/dates. After flying out of the tank, they fell several feet before hitting the ground. They died within days of what I must assume were massive internal injuries due to the fall. Too bad because they were cool! Great coloring!
I keep hillstream loaches in a traditional nano tank, too, and they’re doing great! I love them.
I put 5 Clown Loaches in a 29 gallon community tank of several varieties of fish. I was expecting the Clowns to bond to each other. I even put a cave inside so they could hang out. However, they don't seem to be interested in schooling, preferring to swim independently.
I LOVE Khuli loaches!!!! I have 10 in my Asian tank and they' re awesome!
Let’s hope your tanks big
What a great list of suggestions. My addition would be platinum halfbeak as it's like keeping a tiny monster fish.
Wooow, I may have to look more into them.
Well I'm going to have to check that one out too Mike 😁 I hope you're having a great weekend!!🌿🐟🌿💚
I think all these fish are odd in a way. They certainly look different than other fish species and are every interesting
After 6 weeks of cycling my tank and watching your videos, I got 2 Hillstream loaches yesterday 🥰 I love their little alien faces!!
Nice! Good luck with them!
Thanks to watching your videos, I found kuhli and hillstream loaches. They're are so cute!
Love this video! These fish are amazing! I can't wait till I move so I can get back into aquariums again and this is giving me such an itch
When she says kuhli loaches are harder she means it😭 in my way home after purchasing some I tripped on my skateboard and my bag popped! My loaches were in the ground flopping around😭 i quickly pryed them of the ground with multiple fails cuz of how wormy and slippery they are untill i finally picked all of them up into the little water left in my bag. 4 months later mine are thriving and happy :)
Your plants look super healthy nice job, I may be the only person with a Kuhli loach tattoo so solid choice.i also have 3 of your 5 picks
My 2 Hillstream Loaches are always together and never fight. With my 2 Clown Plecos and my 10 Armano Shrimps they’re my little workers. I have soft water with 2 sponge filters in a 30 gal tank. Everyone seems happy too.
I just set up my 32 gal hillstream loach breeder tank yesterday. I can't wait to see even more babies.
Pigmy puffers also don't play well with inverts. They'll eat your snails and your shrimps. One thing you can do for them though, is get a tank really green with algae, let snails grow and multiply in it (and they will multiply if there's lots of algae), then throw them in the puffer tank when their numbers start getting up there. Personally, I can't bare to do that, so I don't keep puffers. It's almost limitless free food for people who can though. Also, feeding them live snails will keep their teeth worn down to a desirable level so you don't have to trim them yourself, which risks all manner of problems, including the death of the puffer fish. Personally, I'd rather stick with my hillstream loaches, rocket tails, cardinal tetras, and corys.
I'm right with you about hillstream loaches. They are awesome. I'm not quite sure why they qualify as oddballs in the industry because loaches aren't rare in the hobby, and neither are fish which will clean the glass. They are just cool little fish, and every single one of them which I have had has personality by the truck load.
I wish you would have pointed out the blue spark in the hillstream loach eyes. Admittedly I'm a guy but that spark in a fish's eyes
The Kuhli Loach reminds me of Slimy Oscar the Grouch’s pet worm💯😂
Super fun video, Irene! I love your footage of these different oddballs. Thanks!
Was on the fence about Hillstreams but definitely going to need a few now 😊
Kuhli loach are great, I had 2 but thought I'd lost one, then found him in the internal power filter, how long he'd been in there I'll never know, or how he got in. Returned to tank with his mate, and they now seem to spend more daylight time active. Definitely a taking point when people see the tank.
I have peapuffers in my 60 gallon along with several other fish (neon tetras, Cory's, and a knife fish) and haven't had any issues.
I got to agree, hillstream loaches rock! I keep mine with a CRS colony 🌿
Voltron was a male btw. Female peacock gudgeons have a bright yellow belly, black tip fins, and also a pointed face. Most people say the female gudgeons are the prettier ones.
I would love to do some pea puffers, but I'm afraid I wouldn't have good luck with them!!
Another fish I would like to get are some micro dragon gobies? I'm not sure what the species name is... Alex from @the secret history living in your aquarium got some, they're really cool although they stay hid in the sand most of the time 🤣
Another fish I really like is a whiptail catfish.. I don't know what it is about them I just love them!!
Thanks for sharing Irene.. I just love the oddballs!! Have a wonderful and blessed Memorial Day weekend!!🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
I like how shes just reviewing an entire species
Love hillstream loach too they have adorable little faces
You listed my top three, hillstream loach, pea puffers and marbled hatchet fish.
So I wasn’t going to get a hillstream loach because the info says it need fast moving water. So you are keeping them with just a spine finlter and doing fine?
I have 6 kuhli loaches in a 16g tank with c habrosus. I rarely ever see them. I like the hill stream loach. When I ever get a tank conducive to a stream setup I’ll get a few.
I had no idea hillstream laches were so cute!
I had experience with marbled hatchet fish. They are really cool, awesome fish, but they have a tendency to jump. A LOT.
And I mean I had 3 of them and all of them died becuse they found a way to jump out of the tank. Which is something im still bewildered by to this day. My tank has a top, and the only small opening is at the back főt the cables of the equipment to go through. I even put a small plastic piece at one of these openings as a precaution. Didn't stop them.
So if anyone plans on keeping them, make sure to have as little to no openings on your lid. Otherwise they will find a way.
While they’re not good with community tanks I have 12 pea puffers and they do great together actually a social fish with themselves
Some of the sewellia in the video do not look like sewellia lineonata to me. I saw them sold seperately in the fish store under another latin name. The lineonata was very calm and didn't mind me looking at them, but the other kind was super shy, bigger and with another pattern on their bodies. Finer dots. Some of your sewellia look more like those ones.
hillstream loaches still need cold water with lots of flow, i kept the in both situations and they did a LOT better in the tank with lots of flow
As multiple people in the Hobby have pointed out, that's the O2 levels that causes that. You can get them to spawn (a sign of perfect conditions in the fishes point of view) in a tank with near zero flow, as long as it has a lot of dissolved O2.
A high flow is the EASIEST way to do this, however their are other ways including a combination of heavy plants and CO2 injection (which can lead to pearling a sign of complete O2 saturation in the water) or Airstone as long as it has a decent air pump AND defuses the bubbles well decently.
I've always wanted a Kuli loach. I heard that they weren't very hardy, so I'm surprised to hear they apparently do pretty good?
Thanks for the video! Do you know if hillstream or kuhli loaches have any issues with red cherry shrimps?
Kuhli loaches definitely dont
What kind of nano tank did you keep you pea puffer in? Filter?
Cool I just set up a 29gal. Gonna have to try them hill stream loaches.
I got 4 loaches in a heavily planted high stock tank at 78 degrees and they’ve bred so much there are almost 40
I miss my gudgeons, they are GORGEOUS. Definitely one of my favorites, followed by my halfbeaks
What are the fish kept with the kuhli loaches in the video? (With yellow on the fins) -- they look great
What did you do when you were away for the "weekend" from your desk for feeding the Pea Puffer? If you were gone 2-3 days... what did you do?
What are those black and white fishes next to the Hillstream loach? 8:50 in ...thank you
Well friend, after watching your video probably like… Six or seven times, I finally went out and scooped a couple hillstream loaches. Thank you!!
There odd ball 3:07 because the peacock gudgen is supposed to be related to a goby but there closer related to the rainbow fish
I love our loaches! So much fun. To watch
A good thing to remember is a full coverage lid for Marble Hatchet fish, because they are naturally very good jumpers.
I absolutely love kuhlis, but they have never been very hardy for me. If anything, they seem a bit delicate for a bottom feeder.
Was gunna grab a hillstream loach the other day!!!!! But convinced myself they looked too much like the leech I plucked off my leg a while back
Very nice video!! 💙
I want some kuhli loaches at some point, currently have a sumo loach and they are cool little fish aswell
Can you keep the hillstream and khuli loaches in the same tank?
Thank you for this video! Would the Hillstream loach outcompete other bottom dwellers for food? Like Corys or shrimp? Thank you!
I don’t think so, because corys and shrimps are usually very fast. Hillstream loaches are usually the same speed as other bottom dwellers.
Pea puffers are adorable but they are threatened by aquarium trade so be sure to get captive-bred puffers
I was told at the fish store that peacock gundgeons would co exist with my betta… they did not they killed him only a week after introduction
Would pleco and loach work well together in 20 gallon tank? If so how many?
Hey I have 4 hillstream loachs in my 10 gallon and it is such a pain to do water changes
I love hillstream and kuhli loaches.
Also straight forward question: How do you know if the water flow is just right in your tank?
Most of the nano fish I've kept like slower flow, so I just look to see if they're being whipped around the tank too much. Not sure how to judge if the flow is fast enough, but I do try to avoid any dead spots in the tank or oil slicks at the surface.
My mom who is terrified of snakes loves khuli Loaches
I love your videos!
For the Hillstream Loach, what would you do for a minimum tank size? I am looking for an algae eater for our 10 gallon tank that has 1 betta and 4 tetras (2 tetras died and I kind of want to replace them with a cleaner fish...)
20 gallon
Please send a video on black ghost knife fish please
Do the hillstream loaches eat hair algae?
Same here last year we got six hatchetfish and they infected my whole tank with ich. About 50 odd fish died.
I didnt quarantine sadly:(( my tank recovered however and we had 70 corydoras babies and 30 Guppy babys.
Oh, I'm so glad to hear that! Unfortunately most of the hatchetfish were too far gone, even when I re-dosed Paraguard, but thankfully the rest of the fish all survived and some of them never even got any spots (that I could see).
you should do a betta sorority!
Also, is that eco-complete in the hillstream loach tank? I always assumed they wouldn't tolerate rough gravel.
What about a butterfly loach?
Thought i saw some celestial pearl danios in with the kuhli loach. What is your view on them?
Can you keep khuli and hillstream loaches together? What about a 36L tank?
my hillstream hides all the time and I hardly ever see it in my planted tank.
What type of plant/tree is in the middle of the tank with the #5 fish? It’s Gorgeous!
I would love to get some Hillstream Loaches, but where I live, I've never seen them. I guess I could find somewhere to order them. I'm not 100% sure about doing that though. I don't know, maybe it would be fine.
Can hatchet fish survive in a community tank with giant danios and angel fish
I'd love to get some hillstream loaches but I have a pair of apistogramma cacatuoides. Do you know how they'd do together? It's a heavily planted 55 gallon.
i'm so excited for my birthday in September, i'll be getting a betta for my 11 gallon planted tank :DD wish me luck, it'll be my first tank ever!
Just sayin, bettas are fun, but if you can find some, think about gardneri/steel blue killifish. They have incredible colours and are easy to breed. Good luck anyway
Haven’t watched the video yet, but o I bet it’s gonna be great!
Irene, what happened to your root tabs video? I couldn't find it :(
In my experience kuhli loaches are not hardy, not hardy with diseases that is. They die so easily with medicine overdose and stress..still love them tho
Also I can never keep my hillstream loaches alive, they die within a day and I never understand why besides temp or oxygen. I'll prob try again In my 40 gallon