'The thoracic adhesive apparatus as long as broad and pentagonal in shape vs.
adhesive apparatus broader than long and inverted V-shaped with short unculiferous ridges.'
Let me try and locate my G. anamalaiensis picture.
Sending the preserved specimens to HH might help?
@Muda, big loss!
1. Make sure your water is not very hard
2. Make sure all the ones are getting to eat.
Mine are temporarily in a bare bottom tank with a largish driftwood. Just one simple HOB filter. I siphon the tank almost everyday and replace the lost water, that constitutes to less than 5% WC. Do over 10% WC every 4 days. Since the other loaches in the tank race for the food ( Blood worms and algae wafers at alternate days ), I wait until all the fish get to eat. The Glyptos turn up once the loaches are done. My water temp is about 28 or 29. They get hair algae once a week, thanks to my moss that attracts algae from heavens.
I use RO water. I can see my Bhavania have grown a bit. Patterning better too. Just for the 2 Glyptos died a couple of days back.
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hey guys sorry for the late reply, had been extremely busy,
the bhavanias have settled down well after i moved them to a different tank, the new tank is BB with a couple of garden pebbles in the tank a power head and a sponge filter, i always see the bhavanias on or under the garden pebbles,
Are you keeping them with other fishes and do you have a powerhead for them?
they are kept alone in a species tank, yes i do have a power head for them,
they are in a 2 footer with a power head having a capacity of 2000ltr/hr,
i feel it does justice to the flow from where they were collected,
This might help you Mudassir.
Also what are you feeding them? Have you seen them eat? You can give them blanched palak and coriander. They are not very good at fighting for food so I would suggest keep them in a species tank.
Beta is right you also need a good powerhead which spews out a lot of bubbles to make sure the DO level is high and they have a current which they love. Put in some laganendra in to the tank as it normally was found growing and these guys were found living within them.
Read the article above it will help you with the set up.
they were being fed on live tubifex and algae initially, they preferred tubifex over algae wafers, but they started accepting tetra bits a few days later,
yes i did see them gorging on both tetra bits as well as live tubifex,
they are currently on a diet of tetra bits and algae wafers,
Mudassir,
Make sure you have added a airline to the powerhead as Nikhil suggested. As far as I know, DO is the key thing for their survival.
And tubifex worms might not be that ideal as they are known to carry diseases.
yep the airline has a tubing to mix the atmospheric air in the water and the current also increase the DO,
had to go by live tubifex as i didnt have access to any other live food,
One issue that i noticed with powerheads is that they heat up the water, quite a bit. Temperature goes up, DO decreases.
I have my hllstreams in a tank with very strong lighting and fertilize, in order to maintain a heavy algae growth. It goes to an extent, that you cannot see the fishes inside the tank, because of green glass.
However, they do thrive, the smaller ones grow well. It is also a good idea to provide blanched palak and coriander, as Nikhil pointed out. Problem is that they will eat it only, once it starts decomposing. Hence, do a lot of water changes.
I have mine with other loaches, and no losses since about 2 months. Powerhead is really oversized though, 1800 ltrs per hour for a two footer :-)
Hope that helps
ben
will surely try out blanched spinach and corainder,
Benjamin makes a good point about the water heating up. Thats the case with most chinese powerheads. Since Hyderabad will get hot pretty soon I would suggest investing in an Eheim pump its expensive but releases a lot less heat. The other option is Tunze, there is a dealer for them in Delhi. The same person who was the dealer for Eheim before it changed.
Oh and yes try not to keep the glass too clean, a little algae will be good for the fish.
am using a power head from bodyguard(not sure if its chinese company or not)
was planning to make a canister :-)
only the front glass is cleaned :-)
BTW thanks for the contact buds,
1. Make sure your water is not very hard
2. Make sure all the ones are getting to eat.
Mine are temporarily in a bare bottom tank with a largish driftwood. Just one simple HOB filter. I siphon the tank almost everyday and replace the lost water, that constitutes to less than 5% WC. Do over 10% WC every 4 days. Since the other loaches in the tank race for the food ( Blood worms and algae wafers at alternate days ), I wait until all the fish get to eat. The Glyptos turn up once the loaches are done. My water temp is about 28 or 29. They get hair algae once a week, thanks to my moss that attracts algae from heavens.
I use RO water. I can see my Bhavania have grown a bit. Patterning better too. Just for the 2 Glyptos died a couple of days back.
yea dude, really love em,
i add the water evaporated due to the fan, about 5% daily,
mine dont even touch hair algae,
i do see all the buggers eating well now,
my tap water comes at a ph 7.5,
a few of the bhavanias i have, have grown nicely while others r just the same although i see all of them eating,
one of them was put in a planted tank and is about nearly 2.5" now
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