When I first started keeping them, I was using kensfish sticks. I changed over to Repashy shortly after that. They spawned with both foods, but the Repashy increased the spawn size dramatically. My female died, assuming the male injured her during the last spawn. However, spawn size increased from ~...

These didn't seem much more difficult than the normal Ancistrus once the female conditioned. The trick was about a three week dry season to get them to fatten up good. After that, they would spawn with a plain tap water change. My pH runs about 8.6 most of the time, so I doubt that has anything to d...

I don't have an exceptional amount of experience with saltwater, other than the tanks I used to take care of in the shop. However, if I were giving serious thought to a seahorse, I would make sure there is a well stocked refugium on the system, and make sure things like live copepods, arthropods, an...

It appears to be one male and two females, provided they are not still growing into new bristles. Males do tend to add more as they mature until they are filled in. The known male is the smaller faded fish. The other two appear to be female.

Larry

Pics from above, while in water, will make this a thousand times easier.

Larry

Another point being these catfish don't read our size guidelines. I have had and seen fish of several species surpass the "maximum size" guideline, and show no indication of slowing down.

Larry

OK but I know this for a fact Super red X normal make normals super red X Calico make calico Super red X normal het calico make calico and het calico The red gene in the common starin BNP is a line bred calico I'm working on LF super reds and albino calico in LF and SF Likewise, I'm working on a co...

Jools wrote:I've got a spawning report that I've been meaning to publish for a few months now. But it's the only one....

Jools

May be useful as the September COTM??? hint...hint

Larry

Most were on mops hanging from the top to bottom. All of them I saw were in the bottom part. Others were on the glass where the mops touched it.

Edit: I will also add the eggs were smaller than most corys.

Larry

I haven't been to aquabid in a few days, but the auction, and pic, was for L333. I don't have much to add other than having just recognized the pic.

Larry

The heavy swelling, and red patches are both indicative of an internal bacterial infection. I'm going to assume this isn't the same tank you used the tetracycline on. If not, I would advise giving it a try. If it is the same tank, it may be necessary to go with something like erytrhomycin to clear i...

I only spawned them a couple times early last year, but they seemed to follow the same pattern as most other corys. I never pulled either eggs or breeders, so the resulting number of fry was rather low. However, there was about 60 eggs in the tank each time the colony spawned. I cannot say whether t...

I don't know about feeding them to plecos, but should be alright in moderation. I used to keep the eggs from anything I caught on fishing trips to feed to my fish that evening when I got home. Most things conditioned rather well on them. My only caveat would be not to overfeed with these. Any that a...

Pic 13 of doesn't show on the species page, and when clicked gives an error warning. I would've included the warning, but it's hidden behind the page header and other standard portions of the page.

Larry

My fish room is built entirely of similar systems, and I've only recently started using higher plants for nutrient control. I have a single red mangrove growing in each sump, floated in a piece of styrofoam, and have had a major reduction in nitrates as a result. Your design, with the sump below the...

çaykaralı, if you're going to quote me, please let it be known where the info came from. This is literally word for word.

Larry

or come to mind, but don't know anything about either of them enough to say for sure. I don't usually pay Hypostomus much attention.

Larry

I've done similar in the past with used/depleted peat from my blackwater treatment barrel. If using fresh peat, the pH swings would likely be too much for most fish to handle with even a small water change. Likewise, the bacteria will be greatly reduced due to the lower pH in the tank and you won't ...

The image count for both S. barbatum and panamense show only having one image from this page--http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/fa ... amily_id=4. There are substantially more than that in each.

Larry

L250??? that's got to be a typo...

Larry

With most fish, I would say it's nearly impossible to ID with only a pic of their belly. However, I'm going to go out on a limb with this one and say

Larry

This is going to need more information if we're to be able to help. There are a number of parasitic and bacterial infections which will cause fish to fade and become weak or frail. Most are fairly easy to treat, but often difficult to ID on plecos due to their general anatomy.

Larry

A couple of things to think about. The tannins in the wood will eventually stop buffering the water, and would need to be changed at the first sign of the pH going up. It's not impossible, but the substrate choice and holey rock both will tend to increase pH and TDS rather quickly. At the same time,...

Definitely a bacterial infection, as mentioned earlier. However, the placement of the patches is a textbook example of fighting injuries. Once the bacteria becomes more established, it's going to be substantially more difficult to correct the problem. Dosing with antibiotics may help in the short te...

The pics aren't perfect for sexing these, so I can't even take a guess at this point. The easiest way I found to sex them is by looking at the pelvic fins from above with all the fish side by side. Males develop elongated fins in the posterior, central part of these fins, and have an almost triangul...

This definitely sounds like breeding. IME, the eggs are normally rather difficult to find. I managed to get a couple spawns earlier this year, and lost all the fry till I decided to pull the adults and leave the plants in the tank. The few eggs I did see had an unexpected yellow color. I had assumed...

Looking at the fish settled in, it appears to be Loricaria parnahybae . All of these are rather variable, but I'm fairly sure of this one. As to sex, there is no way of easily determining any of the Loricaria without a group to make educated guesses from. The info given above holds true for fish lik...

I agree on being Loricaria, but am thinking it's actually . The fish appears to be stressed in the pics, so it may be easier to be positive if a pic can be taken once it's settled into a tank.

Larry