#stiphodon
Current state of the hillstream tank with my crappy phone. Not too many sewellia babies this year but who knows in this “mess.” I’m kind of sad how long these fish were with me because I lost the oldest stiphodon atropurpureus (I got him 7 or 8 years ago). Most of the adult sewellia in this tank, have been with me from almost the beginning of my serious fish keeping hobby (11 years). I can’t even fathom how they lived this long with me as their owner.
Ugly photo of the hillstream tank before a water change, cleaning, and fixing the power head. I lost the magnetic piece that keeps the powerhead in place on the outside so it keeps moving every other day. The inside suction cup on it doesn’t work too because it has so much algae on it to stick on the glass. Also, the filter output is near the front because I don’t have room for the canister filter (I have three next to each other) in the back with longer hose. This makes it easier for me to clean the canisters. I don’t mess with this tank as much as you can obviously see from the water stains and algae growing everywhere. I haven’t added anything to this tank in almost a year. That was the sewellia “SEW04” which I have been trying to find more locally. I did see three at my LFS a month ago but their tails were messed up and looked like a small case of columnaris or related.
A mess before I cleaned some algae and plants out. I don’t even try scrubbing the front glass anymore. More space for the fish to graze on.
I moved in the pseudogastromyzon a week earlier than usual since I have relatives visiting this week who may sleep in my room so I had to move out the quarantine tank. All look to be good and eating well. I’m not sure which day or days my relatives will be staying with us but I’m leaving Friday to Sunday night, to LA. I’ll end up covering the shelf with a bedsheet or something so that no one bothers the fish while I’m gone. I was able to stop by the LFS today and their display group was gone so no idea if they died or people actually bought them.
Some more photos of the dead L260s and hillstream fish jars. I really need a shelf space to display these. Probably check on the older jars too, to see if they are okay. I’m still surprised this mixture of water and alcohol lasts this long.
A few of my dead fish collection. I have more jars but these were in the box I was going through.
The first one was a group of L260 I had. The heater overheated the tank while I was not home. Lost $300 of fish that day. The other jar is a mix of hillstream fish. These were the dead when I got columnaris from fish I quarantined four months before putting into the tank. Lost most of my hillstream loaches, gobies, and almost quit. My $100 loach is somewhere in there.
I like collecting the dead. Fish are in a solution of rubbing alcohol and water (mostly alcohol). It’s been almost three years for the L260s and seven for the hillstream. Still keeping their “color” and skin. I’m amazed they lasted this long in the solution. I want to display the jars but I don’t have room for a shelf so the jars are in boxes until I get a bigger room.
The hillstream tank before a water change and cleaning. A lot of najas grass with plenty of hair algae attached. Grows crazy but I love and hate it.
Small sewellia spotted juvenile. A few have started popping out again after I sold a lot of the other offspring during fall.
Stiphodon male.
Some of my hillstream fish eating Repashy. Don’t remember if it was Bottom Scratcher or Grub Pie. Adult and baby sewellia sp., sinogastromyzon, gastromyzon, stiphodon, panda garra, to name a few fish shown.
