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Re: hillstream loaches

Posted By: Philip Shum <pshum@cipid.com>
Date: Sunday, 10 May 1998, at 2:15 a.m.

In Response To: hillstream loaches (Don Kuhns)

Hi, Don:

Thanks for your clarification. Accidentially, I was reading the March issue of TFG magazine. At the interesting imports column, it introduced the leopard loach (Neomacheilus sp.).

Regarding the HK pleco, do you have any luck in breeding them? I have four. However, their growth seems to stop. All my fishes in the tank grow except them. I have the four with 5 pearl gourami, 6 pepper corydoras, 1 red tailed black shark and 1 otocinclus affinis. I never see the four eat. I have air going through the water to keep the water moving. They are 1 to one and a half inches long. Sometimes, I left some shrimp pellets on a small plastic disk before I went t