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Bought 3 Chinese butterfly loaches

Posted By: Donna <vantreese@starcomm.net>
Date: Saturday, 24 April 1999, at 5:21 p.m.

I bought the 3 Chinese butterfly loaches aka Borneo suckers aka Hong Kong plecos aka butterfly plecos aka hillstream loaches (??Gastromyzon or pseudogasyromyzo) ... and have been reading all I can find from this site's archives (BEFORE I bought them!). If anyone has new information/observations on their care and feeding, PLEASE share your knowledge with me. These cost me $12.50 each (I talked the owner into lowering the price from $14.99 each since I took all he had, which was 3), so I really want to be successful with them. Not too worried about providing the oxygen, water current and temperature, but want to feed them the best, too. Evidently I have to pay