They may seem kind of "boring" since they're so common, but I like neon tetras and black neon tetras in that type of setup. I'm also a fan of emperor tetras (Nematobrycon palmeri), but they're much harder to get hold of (at least around here) and they can be a little more aggressive to eac...

Probably not an answer you're looking for, but...

My bushynose stopped breeding, and I think it's because some of their tankmates started breeding and chasing all the other fish around the tank. So: in place of one problem, I have a different problem.

I leave powerheads on, but I've had to play around with where to feed the the tank to prevent food from getting from getting stuck on inlets or on sponge filters. Even though the food flies around when I feed in these places, it eventually settles somewhere on the substrate. So I have one or two pre...

I would second Donpetty on the assassin snails being catfish-safe. (Sorry, I know you said you didn't want them!) We haven't kept any loaches in our smaller tanks because they can pester calmer fish. It's kind of a pain because you have to set it up and empty it, but I use a snail trap like this one...

What brand of metronidazole did you get? Is it just metronidazole powder or food that has metronidazole in it? You can feed metronidazole food OR dose the water with pure metronidazole - both should work. I generally don't suggest feeding the metronidazole because most fish that need it won't feed q...

Depending on your tank conditions, Vallisneria might be worth a shot too, and I second the floating plants suggestion. I've also had a lot of luck with guppy grass, a.k.a. water nymph ( Najas guadalupensis ). I just float that stuff and end up with handfuls of it every few weeks. Both of those grow ...

I'm not sure whether Rid-Ich will help. We don't usually use it since it can be very toxic to some fish, like tetras (though angelfish seem to handle it well). The only experience I have with it is for treating ich. As far as metronidazole goes, I haven't had toxicity problems with it. We don't have...

Your angelfish may have a hexamita infection that's causing hole-in-the-head disease. The pitting on her forehead is pretty characteristic of this, so the mouth/jaw damage might be another manifestation. There are other causes for this type of damage, so that's just a guess. In my experience, angelf...

If you're calculating aquarium volume from measurements in cm: 1 cubic cm = 1 mL, or 1000 cubic cm = 1 L So a 60x30x30 cm tank is 54,000 cubic cm, or 54 L. To convert to US gallons, divide by 3.8. This gives ~14 US gallons for the 60x30x30 cm tank. I can never remember the direct conversion factor f...

We have two levels of tanks in one part of the fish room. The lower level is raised ~3" off the floor, and there's a little over 12" of clearance between the top of those tanks and the rack above. Don't forget ergonomics either! Even if it's possible to work with a small clearance between ...

Good news: it took them a little "practicing" (they laid some very small clutches of eggs the first few times), but the old trilineatus group finally came through! The one thing that's surprising to me is the range in development between the siblings. I've never raised cory eggs before, so...

Helpful link, thanks!

Unless something changes between now and when they reach adulthood, I think I have Semaprochilodus taeniurus.

That's a nice looking group of Semaprochilodus you have! We have three Semaprochilodus of some type - not sure if they're the same species as yours, or even the same species as each other. (The small ones seem to have a different tail pattern from the large one, but I don't know anything about chara...

Hey, he was easier to photograph than the "real" royal panaque, even though the real one is fully grown. Fortunately, the real one is feeding...

Hello everyone, I picked up a small juvenile royal panaque (size comparison with cories in photo) recently, and I'm a little concerned about it. Since he's still small, I've been keeping him in a tank with some C. trilineatus adults. It's a sand bottomed tank with a piece of driftwood for him to gna...

Zucchini seems to be the general winner at my house too. Some plecos seem to prefer the skin, and others like the center part and leave the skin behind. But everyone eats it! I have a couple of screwcumbers for sinking the zucchini (I know, it's kind of unnecessary but I thought they were funny - an...

It might be columnaris. In my experience, columnaris doesn't clear up with Maracyn (erythromycin). (I don't know if some strains are more or less resistant to the drug?) I've had better luck with kanamycin, or kanamycin + furan-2.

Hope the little guys get better!

PMing you about some local fish events.

NChops134: I'm in San Diego. My husband lived in Culver City before and shopped at some of those LFS's, but it's been a few years. We also used to live in Berkeley, so we know about some of the bay area stores. In San Diego, there are three stores where we get our fish: Aquatic Warehouse, Pet Kingdo...

I can't claim to be an L-cat expert, but I personally wouldn't put Ancistrus with L134s. I just had a BN aggression disaster last week - that might've been an isolated problem though because our BN might've been trying to breed. You might be okay on territory disputes with just females or just a mal...

Hi everyone, We had a major bushynose catastrophe in one of our tanks yesterday. It's a tall 150gal with 6x Uaru amphiacanthoides, 5x wild discus, 1x mystery wood-eating L-cat (maybe Panaqolus albomaculatus , but we weren't 100% sure), and 3x bushynose. The bushynose are 2 male (probably fully grown...

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I'm giving these little guys (and girls) some time in this tank on their own, so I guess I'll see what happens. I'll post a breeding report if anything interesting happens.

Hello fellow catfish lovers, New to the boards here, but a longtime catfish lover. I've just moved a group of 7 Corydoras trilineatus from a community tank to a 10-gal breeding tank (sand bottom with a piece of driftwood and some moss for cover). This is embarrassing, but I don't know exactly when w...