ScaryFatKidGT
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So someone has spurred my interest on hillstream loaches and building a tank for this environment.
After looking around and on here Hillstream Loaches - The Specialists at Life In The Fast Lane — Loaches Online I want to make one of these. His 2004 tank is so beautiful almost like a rocky iwagumi or like a real river bottom.
His PVC pipe and powerhead method confuses me tho, why not just use a sump? or like a huge canister filter? FX or Marineland 530... that should be enough flow in a 40g tank right?
I want the tank smallish as the loaches are small and I want to put it up higher to look into. I'm thinking either a 33 breeder or 33 long or a 40 breeder or a 40 long, which would be best? Now nothing that size is drilled for a sump, and even if it was, it wouldn't be drilled on one end, but the sump would allow a larger water volume, a consistent water level in the tank and I have heard cooler temps?, but most importantly more oxygen. It seems to me something like a Fluval FX or maybe 2 406's or the Marineland C-530 would generate a lot of current in a tank like that but where would the oxygen come from? I could put a big airstone right under the outlet tube?
I really wish I could make like a rocky water slide between 2 tanks but I have no idea how I would accomplish that...
After looking around and on here Hillstream Loaches - The Specialists at Life In The Fast Lane — Loaches Online I want to make one of these. His 2004 tank is so beautiful almost like a rocky iwagumi or like a real river bottom.
His PVC pipe and powerhead method confuses me tho, why not just use a sump? or like a huge canister filter? FX or Marineland 530... that should be enough flow in a 40g tank right?
I want the tank smallish as the loaches are small and I want to put it up higher to look into. I'm thinking either a 33 breeder or 33 long or a 40 breeder or a 40 long, which would be best? Now nothing that size is drilled for a sump, and even if it was, it wouldn't be drilled on one end, but the sump would allow a larger water volume, a consistent water level in the tank and I have heard cooler temps?, but most importantly more oxygen. It seems to me something like a Fluval FX or maybe 2 406's or the Marineland C-530 would generate a lot of current in a tank like that but where would the oxygen come from? I could put a big airstone right under the outlet tube?
I really wish I could make like a rocky water slide between 2 tanks but I have no idea how I would accomplish that...