I'm aware nitrates are not as toxic but I had levels upwards of 100ppm. Also it is possible I had de-nitrification in the FX5 as the tank was running with no maintenance while I was away at university. I cleaned it recently and it was a mess. I'm not sure what could have caused the spike. I suspect ...

It appears the mystery is solved. Something went wrong with my bacteria in the FX5 my nitrates shot through the roof. I bought done nitrate pads and in going to load up on ceramic rings.

I had cut down my wc from advice my lfs. I guess since I was doing 50% once a week my system couldn't handle it.

Thankyou gor your comments. I have a huge air pump going into the tank. I doubt it was DO. Additionally nothing had been added to the water which could have caused a redox reaction. Fortunately I work in a water quality lab so I can have my water analysed quite easily. Unfortunately I have not had t...

It all started a couple of weeks ago. I bought a little royal pleco for my 75 gallon filtered by a fluval FX5. On day 8 his eyes appeared sunken and he died shortly. I returned to the store and got a peckoltia compta by accident sold to me as fake tiger pleco. That fish died overnight. I have never ...

Ok yeah. I told them it was probably something in peckoltia. 30 seemed pretty cheap. I threw in some live black worm and shut off the lights. His belly is a bit sunken hopefully he will take food. I lost a baby royal the other day so any advice to help him settle is appreciated

That looks about right. I think my lfs gets the fish from an importer because the have tons of loricariids oftentimes unlabeled.

Your id seems solid hopefully it isn't a hybrid.

What does "going for dimes mean"?

Thanks for the fast help

I bought this guy for $30 as a false tiger pleco.

It looks like something in peckoltia. But honestly I have no clue.

Any help with ID would be appreciated.

I took some pictures of my cats if you want to look at them
These are my microglanis cat and my B. colombianus (how is that for an ugly face?). I don't have many pictures of them because they are always hiding.
feel free to post images of your fish

I am not sure how difficult this would be to implement, but I think that we could benefit greatly from an interactive phylogenetic tree. Right now The Cat-eLog is organized by families. With a tree it would be easier to remember characteristics of the families by remembering the derived character st...

Hmm, thank-you I was stuck inbetween those two, but I went with coracoideus because I read it was the most common in the trade. I will add them to mycats I get to be the 11th registered keeper. Keeping these fish has been interesting they really believe they are twigs to the point where you can pick...

Could they be Bunocephalus coracoideus? I was reading through the ID forum and someone had some banjos for ID earlier and it was said that the color can be quite variable.

I have had these little guys for more than 2 years (got them july 2011). I never really bothered to get a proper ID for them Here is the first one: http://i.imgur.com/3qDmuxZh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/2Hr8RWMh.jpg Second one: http://i.imgur.com/DCkkKGBh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XR0sY5Oh.jpg The second f...

I was trying to get out of the hobby because I was going to college. From about age 3-10 I was completely obsessed with insects. To the point where I refused to read fiction. I started keeping fish when I was ~13 I started with cichlids, while I still like cichlids I found that I liked my bottom fee...

Ahhh I would kill for the opportunity to go. Unfortunately the time period does not coincide with my winter break.

If any of you care to see the set up I will probably be posting part of it today. The tank is a 10G with two bunocephalus sp(?) and the Microglanis. It will be a boring tank for a normal person because the banjo cats just dig into the substrate and disappear, and the Microglanis will just be hiding ...

I found the thread where I was told M iheringi has not been seen for a while the thread is from 2011 "As to the Bumblebee, it's very difficult to identify any bumblebee. But I can almost certainly say it's not M. iheringi, as that's a fish from Venezuela. Turmero. I suspect the true M. iheringi...

I though cottoides but the banding pattern is off. cottoides has a white band that comes up to the dorsal. The three guys I have do not have that. I found them at petsmart. That is the second time I have seen them there. The first time I saw them I asked where they got them, and they did not know (c...

I just bought these little guys. They were being sold as "M. iheringii", but apparently those have not been seen in the hobby for quite some time (I was told this here maybe more than a year ago). I bought three of them. The smaller one has a distinct pattern, but that is probably because ...

Thank you for the link

I think I am going to give this is a try. I will probably put a HOB on it and plant it with emmersed and immersed plants. The only issue at this point would be the pH maybe I can boil my substrate....

I have an idea for a new project >So it would be a ten gallon fish tank planted heavily with peace lilies and D. maculata >the substrate would just be peat moss (no cap) >there would be two bunocephalus cats >no filtration just an air stone my question is how feasible would this be? It would be full...

NOTE: POST WAS ORIGINALLY FOR CICHLID FORUM I COULD FIND MORE VIDEO EVIDENCE OF WILD CICHLIDS NEVER THE LESS IT HAS APPLICATIONS IN ALL FISH KEEPING. thankyou :d much like among the human community I would like to bring attention to fat fish (to put it frankly). I have thought about this topic for a...

this is just a simple riddle to get the thread going


this fish derives its common name from an instrument whose origin can be traced back to Africa.

genus or common name will suffice

I second the p. pardalis ID. I assume you bought it under common pleco?

you better have a large tank they grow big like 18-20 inch or so. they grow rather fast he/she will be around 7 inch in no time

good luck with your fishy

OK in an attempt to re-rail the thread I have been opserving both of the little banjo cats and I must say they are very active during the early morning and late at night. they tend to swim together. during the day they are out of sight hiding under the sand somewhere I must say they are superb ambus...

ok keep them as they are. no pre-messing I dont have a water changer. I use aqueon water changer and today I found out my tap was coming out at a consistent 80 degrees!! I was freaked so I tested it for a long time and no problem so i did a water change on my outdoor africans with the hose and I did...

ah thankyou very much. I knew they preferred acidic water, but I have not read the fungus thing. hmm hes in with a large piece of drift wood for the tank size. it tints the water a bit............. so I shouldn't change much water should I? that would run my pH to about 7 like my tap...................

I like the look of the pieces of tile on the arch

if you put some grout in-between the tiles it would look like a rock arch

very cool

im planning to have the base of its diet be earth worm 60%+ protein its an incredible food. not to mention a lot of aquarium fish lack ruffage so you keep the dirt inside of them and that helps them. probably thow in some mosquito larvae 40%-60% ish (cant remember correct me if im wrong) depending o...

BUMP FOR WANTING TO KNOW THE ANSWER TO THE LAST RIDDLE I'm not going to give the answer myself -). New clue: My genus name is a cross between a glass catfish and a European wels. lol (laugh out loud) believe it or not I was going to guess wels catfish, but I remembered those spawn in shallower wate...

so I set up a new tank... today was my birthday so I had my parents drive me to "hidden reef aquatics" I would like to say that I was very pleased with the store. the staff was far beyond the level I expected staff to be at.... theres was one guy who know what he was doing. I was very happ...