The mystery of the missing loach....
So wayyyyy back in post 1, it was mentioned that the rio125 former crab den had been repurposed back to fish, and the previous occupants of the 72l had been moved into it. One being the yoyo loach.
Now, he was always a bit of a ****, if im honest.
He would lay on his side motionless, amongst some plants or on the wood, and play dead. Waiting until I was getting a bit concerned before having a bit of a swim around...
Anyway, he's gone missing. About 5 inches long, and no way to get up the filter pipe (I had watched him trying to enter the original Juwel internal filter via its outlet pipe in the past, however that is gone and an external filter in place). Theres a lid on the tank (standard Juwel flap type). Ok, a couple of cutouts at the rear for pipework, which are mostly filled with... pipework. But still, he is missing. Not hiding, as I've removed all the wood for a good scrubbing. No decomposing corpse. No dried out loach around the tank anywhere.
So where did he go???
(on the plus side, I could put some snails in now for algae control)
So wayyyyy back in post 1, it was mentioned that the rio125 former crab den had been repurposed back to fish, and the previous occupants of the 72l had been moved into it. One being the yoyo loach.
Now, he was always a bit of a ****, if im honest.
He would lay on his side motionless, amongst some plants or on the wood, and play dead. Waiting until I was getting a bit concerned before having a bit of a swim around...
Anyway, he's gone missing. About 5 inches long, and no way to get up the filter pipe (I had watched him trying to enter the original Juwel internal filter via its outlet pipe in the past, however that is gone and an external filter in place). Theres a lid on the tank (standard Juwel flap type). Ok, a couple of cutouts at the rear for pipework, which are mostly filled with... pipework. But still, he is missing. Not hiding, as I've removed all the wood for a good scrubbing. No decomposing corpse. No dried out loach around the tank anywhere.
So where did he go???
(on the plus side, I could put some snails in now for algae control)
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