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    Introduce myself to the fresh forum

    Greets gang,

    I live in pasadena texas, which is close to houston. I raise clown loaches along with queen loach, zebra loach, orange finned loach, dojo loach.. you get the idea. I am always happy to help in anyway i can. I am happy to find this board. I am a moderator at a site called www.aquariumpros.com/forum

    i am not trying to pull anyone away from here, i invite yall to come over to the forum, i will make sure to ask around and get all i can to come here. I love the idea of people near me for once hehe

    Please let me know if i can help in any way making this board stronger
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    Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

    Welcome!
    Raul
    PokerFace

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      Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

      I am a moderator at a site called www.aquariumpros.com/forum
      i am not trying to pull anyone away from here, i invite yall to come over to the forum,

      the site sounded interesting but when I tried to access it all I got was......

      Forbidden
      You don't have permission to access /forum/ on this server.
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      Apache/1.3.34 Server at www.aquariumpros.com Port 80
      'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust ...'
      He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four-year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

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        Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

        Aquarium Pros | For the Aquarium Hobby. By the Aquarium Hobby.
        http://www.aquariumpros.com/forums/


        Im sorry, i typed it too fast

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        • #5
          Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

          Welcome to the site Budda! Glad to have you here.

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            Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

            Originally posted by buddha_red";p="
            I raise clown loaches along with queen loach, zebra loach, orange finned loach, dojo loach.. you get the idea.
            So, I guess this means you like loaches? :wink:
            Welcome, this is a great local site.  I'm new here myself but really enjoy the posts I see here.
            Reasoning with some people is like trying to nail jello to a wall...

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            • #7
              Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

              Welcome to the Houston Fish Box Buddha Red.

              max

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              • #8
                Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

                more better    

                welcome

                I have always kept loaches in my comunity tanks - golden weather loaches, clowns, red tail blues, YoYos, TireTracks, koolie loaches.....

                Do they have any special needs that I have been neglecting ?
                'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust ...'
                He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four-year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

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                  Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

                  what food do you give them and how often? I give my loaches sinkable pellets which give them the required vitamin and mineral. I also weekly give my loaches boiled spinage. Wonderful for them, and they eat it up. Frozen bloodworms are awesome too.
                  They eat flake with the others. If you have malaysian trumpet snails they will love you. If you do not have any, they are big time cheap on aquabid.com


                  Hehe i love loaches,

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                  • #10
                    Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

                    I generally feed high proteen flake food  with live blackworms and adult brine shrimp for a treat.  And of course the ramshorn and trumpet snails when I clean out another tank.  I've never fed spinage - how do you prepare it ?
                    'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust ...'
                    He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four-year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

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                    • #11
                      Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

                      you boiled spinage as you would if you are eating it. then
                      i flatten it down inside aziplock freezer bags, this way i can easily break off a piece.
                      my loaches LOVE it

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                        Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

                        good idea :!:

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                          Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

                          Interesting buddha_red! That is a site that I have been frequenting in my quest to learn more. I have it bookmarked, but haven't checked out the forums. So far this is the only one I have joined. But that website did have a question about mold on the rocks that I found when I googled my question when I had that problem.

                          By spinage - do you mean spinach?

                          After I get my tank cycled, I want to get a loach. Someone suggested a clown loach, but I read that they get pretty big and my tank is only 55 gallon. What do you recommend? And do you get a pair or just one?

                          Daisymac

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                            Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

                            Clown loaches are very slow growers after 3 inches. Ideally upgrade to a 110 when/if you can afford it. reserve 12 gallons per clown loach. they should have at least one friend. they are very social fish. I have been raising them for about two years. Keep your temp at 85, it sounds hot, but it's one measure to combat ICK. its necessary. Buy something to cure ICK if you buy clown loaches, USE HALF DOSAGE, they have no scales and absorbe chemicals easy. I believe you will enjoy them, i call them the puppy dogs of the aquarium. they dog pile, and play constantly.

                            HTH

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                              Re: Introduce myself to the fresh forum

                              But, HTH, if I raise the temp, my others won't be very happy. They like it around 78-80. Of course I only have a few right now.

                              I won this tank set-up and that is the only reason I have it. My dh would only let me have a tiny tank (2.5 gal.) before this, so there is no way I will ever be able to get up to a 110! Of course unless he really gets into this as much as I have. I always wanted a big tank because my mom had tanks when I was a kid. She had 3 20 gallon, and a 5 gallon for the babies. When we had to move to another city she took all the stuff to the pet store and traded it in on a pedigreed poodle.

                              Do the loaches normally have ICK?

                              Thanks for your help.

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