The MOST adorable algae eaters for a river aquarium! 

Nice video, I enjoy those cute Hillstream loaches.

My opinion? Lovebirds have a mind of their own! Also, I really love your hillstream loaches! Your setup seems perfect - lots of flat-ish rocks, high flow, and a big footprint. EDIT: Also thank you for showing us the differences between the two- mine is definitely a male!

❤❤❤ kisses, what a beautiful montage you have, I congratulate you

Hillstream loaches are definitely a top 5 fish for me if not my favorites! Beautiful tanks✨Love your videos ‼️

Such a cutie and your tanks look amazing 🙏 I can tell you take alot of pride and care in them

Beautiful 🫶⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🫶

hello Kaity ! nice to have you back again and I enjoyed your video and I am looking forward to the next time

The most adorable RU-vidr 😍🤣 I like the small salt tank though!

I love your videos, Kaity. I am going to have a crack at the riverbank in my 2100x60 tank.

the river tank is awesome !

Love your videos, cheers from Mexico city, looking forward to seeing the next one

The small salt water tank is real nice.

The Rainbows are looking great 👍

I love your tanks so amazing💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

Hillstream Loaches are lovely, we have 4 and they are always entertaining

I like what you do I'm a fresh water guy for well over twenty years I have always kept Malawi chichlids and discus just love what you do and keep what your doing ❤😊👍

Another awesome episode Kaity!! your peninsula tank is my favorite!!

You’ve got yourself a new subscriber from Singapore! Great contents. - fellow fish lover.

Luv that river tank so cool to have sm thing like that in your living room I'm going have to set 1 myself u really inspired me too set 1 up too.

Cool fish, never see them around my area. I like the little rainforest looking tank.

Love the show and your tanks

The stepped reef tank is something that I was also admiring several times already, but paludariums can also look wonderful.

Yes yes yes, filter sump update ;-) Also maybe with some modifications following suggestion last time maybe ;-)

Very nice and interesting tank

This channel is blowing up! Great job! Your content is grrrrreat!

I'd love to own any tank, but I can't afford, so I'll just enjoy yours when you show them to us. I like that misting habitat tank. It would be great fun to plant that, then put some fresh water shrimps in the water part, and maybe a small crab species which could also survive out of water by climbing on the growing plants once they've settled in. A hill stream tank would be a dream, especially if it could support a fairly rapid flow so that the fish could dart in and out of the current to grab food. It would make for a very active tank, and it would give the loaches an environment much more like that which they encounter in nature. The air fish is absolutely precious. Birds absolutely steal my heart, and love birds are among the best if you can tolerate the vocalizations (which I can). I've even had Fisher's over the decades, and they are usually so friendly and fun. They love lots of attention, and want to spend lots of time being the centre of your attention. I love birds of all kinds. They just get old for me, and I love to watch and tame wild birds so that I always have friends to greet me when I go outside. When you spend a lot of time with birds, you find that they all have their own dear little personalities. Even the wild ones do. My neighbours thin I'm barking mad, but so be it. I love all animals. It's just my quirk. I don't tell them that they're crazy for having lots of bling or fancy cars and whatever. So maybe have just a little patience for the things I find valuable? Love your tanks and all your critters, and I love the things you do with and for them. Keep up the wonderful work!

hi ther your tank looks great it looks like a real lake ❤

Nice 💯💯👍 love your content keep up the great videos

I love those hill streams! I’m going to try a pair next for my white cloud mountain minnow cool water tank. Thanks for the video. Always great to view your beautiful tanks and fish!

First time seeing these interesting loaches, (never see them in aquarium store here, Toronto, Canada),. They clean up the algae in your river tank effectively. Do hope it is a pair so can reproduce. Love your 4K video. I have never had fish tanks grand like yours and never will, because I am 88 years old, so I watch yours. BTW, I do have a 10gal tank with a male Batte fish.

Cool little fish. I have a Bulldog pleco in mine and I've had him for over 7 years. They don't get too big but love the algae, mine cleans all the glass over night 😊

If you're going down nano marine tank I'd suggest you keep it very simple. A good simple nano would be the redsea nano tank although it's very expensive, or you can buy the tank and all the pieces needed separately. I'd say its about 1500 pounds which is about 3k Australian Dollars to set up a nano tank.

Hi Kaity, Thanks for a great review of your river tank. I really love that look. I have algae eaters (no hillstream loaches unfortunately) - small plecos, Otocinclus, and even cherry shrimp, and they've done such an amazing job with the algae that I've felt the need to supplement. I blanch organic spinach from the grocery and feed that to them. Over night, a big wad of spinach will disappear. It turns out that even my albino Kribensis love the stuff. It might be a good supplement for the loaches. I did two different videos - one on blanching spinach and one on blanching zucchini on my Instagram channel. And this morning I just saw someone else's video on blanching carrots for shrimp. Might be worth looking into. And then there are always algae wafers or crisps. I know Bug Bites makes some. Have a fantastic day, and keep your amazing content coming.

Your channel is blowing up. Beating channels like prime time aquatics and matching KGTropicals with views. Grats

Love your tanks and videos more please and maybe more cinematic shots of your beautiful fish

Loved this video. I really liked the waterfall tank. Looked so cool. My 10 year old grandson was helping me clean my 15 gallon fluval tank yesterday. While doing so he somehow leaned it forward on the rounded front and cracked it. Guess I’m going to be getting a new tank to replace it with. Think I my go to a 20 or 30 gallon as the replacement. I think Hill Streams are so beautiful. Remind me somewhat of stingray. Keep the great video’s coming for us. They are so beautifully done and informative.

I got 6 Hill stream loach in my tetra community tank and looks great.

Those loaches are sooo adorable! I really want some for my 4 foot shallow tank now!

I have 4 in my river style aquarium as well. They are very active and always in sight!

Those loaches are super cute for sure. The drop off tank is cool but salt water is a lot of work…. I tried it for a year but went back to fresh. I have a small tank with golden white clouds, it’s probably my favourite. Will look forward to see what you choose…👍🏽.

Hi. I have a shallow river tank and love HSL. I keep Panda Garra with them....they both love Repashy Green foods.

Awesome tanks, I would Love, to have a comparison of canister filter vs the sump.

I vote small saltwater tank; however, anything you choose will probably turn out great. Looking forward to future content! Thanks,

i love hill stream loaches i got one and hes doing great but mine prefers to be in the back of the tank. I loved seeming them stuck to the glass.

very nice content, thanks for share 👌

Bravo from Romania ❤

Very enjoyable, thankyou

Another amazing video, Hillstream loaches look amazing in your tank. I can’t wait to order mine. They are so hard to get in Melbourne.

River tank is looking beautiful I really like Hillstream loach I haven’t had them yet, but thinking about getting some I think be cool set up the small salt water tank have great day 🐟🐠🐟

Please do the paludarium! I’m thinking of having a go at one myself, so would love to see what you come up with. 😊

Yea it's dangerous going to fish shops 😅😅 there's also a new fish or setup you see that you really want even tho you know you have nowhere to put it 😅🤣 great video 🤗

Nice tanks you got there... Africans , river ...the missing thing is sea water... You should get the small salt water tank.

I bought 5 hill stream loaches, at last count there were 27, really easy to breed once they settle in, just need plenty of rocks pebbles, and they do the rest...

I love Hill Stream Loaches too🥰 , I bet you would frown upon me having two in my planted Tanganyikan Tank...but...I have two in my planted Tanganyikan Tank for over 3 months now and they're doing fantastic. Surprisingly they can be aggressive to other maintenance fish like Panda Garra and Bristle Nose. It's like a Chihuahua chasing a Cocker Spaniel 😂

Great vid as per usual Katie. I love your river tank. I thought with Hillstream loaches you had to have them in threes, because they quarrel so much and to stop one picking on another. Have you ever thought about a small pea puffer tank?

Very nice

I would always recommend naturally derived treatment for new introductions to the aquarium regardless. Bacteria is a very interesting thing. They are always present, though for a healthy aquarium that is stable they are often inactive due to the inhabitants having healthy immune systems, built up to the bacteria present in your system and low stress levels (this is the assumption I will make off the bat). A change in water chemistry or even the slightest bit of stress can suddenly change that (new fish new system). If you don't really have very expensive fish I suppose that is a risk one would take readily but its not worth it overall. Filling a bucket with tank water and putting something like melafix or for me preferably Fish Recover FW from brightwell aquatics into that bucket say no more than 1ml for 15-20 minutes with an airstone then add them to your tank. It will get rid of any external bacteria on that fish that might be newly introduced to the bacteria within your system. This small step goes miles for the overall health of your lovely setup. Again this is assuming that your tank inhabitants aren't extremely expensive fish (subjective) and its a middle ground approach. Adding one dose as well to the main tank on the same day you introduce the fish is an additional step. Following that up with a nice water change on day 2 to remove any newly shed stress coat of the fish and then business as usual after that. :) This has saved me much headache as I have had in the past, even with fish that have remained healthy for weeks in the shop whom I genuinely trust keep their systems very clean. These things just happen though when it comes to new bacteria introductions though being healthy fish in their respective system of origin.

I like that you are honest with the outbreak and how you managed it. Also MAD have one of those Dymax tanks setup as a planted tank and I love the look of them, I can't afford one and would love to see what you would do with one.

I think a small saltwater tank with a couple clowns would be perfect. I didn’t notice the cute little bird till the end.

I have mine in a fancy goldfish tank and they have been breeding

If you are interested in doing a nano reef check out Fragbox corals. They are from Canada and you won’t be able to order livestock from them but they have awesome info. They are located in Toronto. The rock work needs to look not man made. They show in good details how to aqua scape the rocks. Your tanks look amazing 🙏👍👍. Can’t wait for the hillstreams to breed for you 😎

They are a great addition to that type of tank and should love it, I've always liked them and have kept them many times in the past, I have to say with the algae you have done the right thing by cutting down on the lighting, you live a busy life style and your tank lights don't need to be on for so long ether, you should be able to time it so it is on white your at home and maybe just 6hrs a day at a lower light should be enough with those plant you have, with the filtration you have you shouldn't need to do so many water changes as well, you have floating plants in your sump that should take up a lot of nutrient and the plants in the tank will grow better with less changes, I'd just vacuum some of the sediment once every few weeks on the lower section and top up, that would be plenty for that large tank in my opinion, I have never used any products like that in a tank or pond, for the long term you just need to find a balance, I hope this helps another great video Thanks for sharing Kaity, it's looking nice 🙂

I think a small salt water tank would be awesome

Those loaches are really cool. I’ve been wanting some for a long time, but I don’t have a good setup for them. AND I’ve been thinking of a small palidarium myself. Maybe I’ll swap out my 6g office tank with a little one.

Valuable , informative video and cute youtuber

Ideally you should start with 6-8 to ensure you get a male female mix for breeding. I started out with 6 and must have at least 30 in my 75g now.

Buy some crossocheilus oblongus fish will help a lot and maintain your tank clean and healthy..

Congratulations

Yosunla mücadele için, iyi bir tercih.

Waterbox aquarium are rimless and don't have center brace, but are over 5 times as expensive as standard glass aquarium.

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I hope you try the vivarium I am very interested in that area and would like to see how you go about it.

yayyyyyyyyyy.. new video!

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Thank you for the update on that stunning tank. But I'd really like to know what lighting system you use. Did you do it by yourself or can you buy it?

The addiction is real. 2 tanks complete and looking for a 3rd

Go for something different with your collection, a heavily planted tank no co2. It can be any size you like. Or start a smaller planted tank first, build up the plants in it, they do a planted tank? :-)

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hello kaity please tell me which bacteria do you use in your aquariums to maintain bio balance and remove nitrates and nitrites you have wonderful aquariums

Ive kept borneo suckers before, are those ones much different? Also that vivarium is basically a humidifier right? I can imagine brisbane summers wouldnt like even more water sources... Nice budgie!

petricolas will be nice with the africans

lindo demais 💗

What size tank is this? It’s beautiful

Isn’t this an ideal tank for Farlowella catfish too? I love those guys.

beautiful aquarium, what size is it?

Algae eaters are silly, I have panda gara and a platinum chinese algae eater in my fish room 😊

This is nice ! Btw i have a question... is it okay to put small loaches with boesmani? Or generally rainbow ?

Have you had any scares with your hillstreams going up and out of the tank? I've avoided adding them to my setup because I've heard many horror stories from fellow hobbyists in Perth. I've got a 120 Bioscape natural scape they'd be perfect in, but I don't want to come home and find them on the floor. They're expensive over here!

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Can you make a video on Amazon Puffers

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It doesn't look like the cyano is gone. I can still spot it everywhere. Sry

Salt water is hard work

Hillstreams are hilarious i have a male and female and they zoom around like an angry married couple. Always seems like they are having an argument.

Hey Kaity, Beautiful fish tanks. I am also in Brisbane and have some full size African Cichlids that I want to move to a more suitable home. I would love to donate them to you if you are interested. MSG me if interested.

Toss them a zucchini

You killed this tank and my heart is broken

Hi!