I'm with Richard and prefer the L14 to L253

I think that's why there would have to be a financial exchange or trade of similar value fish. Might certainly work if trading a male for a female of the same species, or if people wanted a different challenge - Maybe I'll trade my breeding group of L333's for your L200's or something like that. I'm...

Hi Nick,

I'm interested what you mean by "L14 Scobiancistrus.aureatus - Sunshine Pleco "Rio Iriri" ( special scoby )" and how these Scoby differ from the conventional / non-special variety?

I'm sure this idea has been raised before, probably even on this site, but I thought I'd put the idea out there once again. Basically the idea is around creating a network(s) for breeding various plecs in a similar way to putting dogs, horses, etc out to stud, and with the reputation and popularity ...

That's a really nice reward for the tank upgrade. Congrats

Earlier this evening I noticed something stuck in the mouth of my largest male rainbow. On closer inspection it looked like a bit of stick but after chasing him around the tank with a net, he spat out a half dead female guppy approx ~3-4 cm TL. After grabbing the motionless guppy I put her in a net ...

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Thank you for your thoughts djtonyel. Anyone else want to agree or disagree?

Unungy wrote:Now I am thinking L400.

It's not easy with these little guys is it? L66, L333, L400, other?

A few dodgy camera phone pictures

Hi all, http://youtu.be/O1nDK-Vfwgo I've had this little guy for a few years and although it was bought as a L333, I've never been 100% sure, so I'm looking for help with the ID because I want to sell him before my L14's get much bigger and bully him/her too much. I'll try to get a better video / pi...

HI

Love your little Scobi (L14). I remember when mine used to be small and cute like that, now they are more like grumpy teenagers

I've got 4 x Scobinancistrus aureatus which I hope to breed in around 5yrs time, although I'm also aware I might have to give them up for the greater good (required tank size to breed and others probably having more experience at breeding large plecs). Also got 1 x L333 that I'm looking to sell if a...

Hi Tagamasid,

I started a similar topic several months ago and included a video of one of my L14s. There were quite a few replies to my original post, so I thought you might find some of the information helpful. The link is below.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =5&t=36173

A tailor made aquarium, a with black cabinet base for sale for £450. The price includes some items shown in the main photo, but not the fish which have already been sold separately. Aquarium and cabinet alone cost over £1,000, 3 years ago. The aquarium was made with special clear glass, to ensure fi...

400l (Rio400) with L14s, mixed corys and various other fish (rainbows, guppys, etc)

Also got a 80l and a 20l grow out tank that are currently in storage.

Just wanted to say thank you to all the people that have commented above. I'm sure once I sit down and review all the posts in detail over weekend I will find plenty of very useful information, which will soon have me playing around with the tank/filters once again :) I can report that despite rearr...

racoll wrote: That's a really dumb idea. The air will get trapped in the filter and it will stop working!

That's what I thought, it's easy to hear that the filter doesn't sound right when there's air trapped in it. Thanks for confirming my assumptions

And 1 final question. I read somewhere that people put an airstone under the intake for their large filters because it's beneficial to get the air / O2 into big canister/external filters. Is there any truth in this? Whenever I've accidently done this or after a big clean, I tend to find my Fluval 40...

I come to this site for advice so it would be stupid of me to ignore everyones' comments :) I've just done a 40% water change, hoovered out some leftover prawns from last nights feed, and mixed recently collected rain water with normal tap water to refill the tank (I've not splashed out on RO water ...

I'm quite confident its not an Oxygen problem because the tank isn't too warm (~26.5c), there are 2 airstones in the tank, plus 3 large filters providing plenty of surface/water movement.

Any other ideas on how to get more oxygen into the tank? Lower temp further, add more airstones, anything else?

I'm making a promise to myself that one day I will attend one of these show events, it's just a shame this one is so far from Southampton

Hope everything goes well for all those attending.

Great picture Tommi. I think I noticed a L14 in one of the pictures. How many L14s do you have and how big is it / are they?

Hi all, I just came across the following for Redfish magazine and thought I would share. The facebook group is https://www.facebook.com/redfishmagazine, and for those of you not on FB http://www.redfishmagazine.com.au/editions The link above allows you to download a free electronic magazine. I've ju...

Hi David R, I have 4 of them. They range from approximately 5" to 6.5" TL and are in a standard Rio400 (400l) tank but I've added an extra external Fluval 405 filter and 2 further internals to make 4 filters/powerheads in total. More details can be found in my earlier posts here - http://w...

I remember when mine used to be that small and cute, but now they are just getting bigger and grumpier, a bit like teenager children

Thanks for the feedback guys. To answer your questions I have 4 x L14's in that tank (400l) and yes the others were hiding. They are roughly the same size but the 1 in the video is the biggest by about 0.5" TL. Wrasse - this is the only 1 that I've noticed doing this as consistently as it does ...

Does this link work?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh93W2y7xhg

Alternatively search for the video, which is called 'Strange Plec (L-14) behavior'

Well another Guppy dropped 15-20 babies overnight and now my Plec is acting a bit weird again. I've uploaded a video (sorry about crap quality, I used a cameraphone) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh93W - Behaviour starts at about 1m20s and goes on until the end. He was actually doing this for nea...