Thanks for the input Martin i kept ottys many years ago and as i recall they were very busy little fish i just checked the cat-elog and there are some realy nice looking fish.
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Hl all,
all my tanks are in my fish house but i have recently bought a 14 inch cube "nano"tank for the house,I want to plant it up with dwarf plants an keep dwarf fish i have already decided on corys harbrosus and hastatus but would like something else .Any sugestions?
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hi all
almost a fish joke
i went to a restraunt last night and ordered the frogs legs .but i had to send them back .they kept kicking the peas of the plate
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HI Larry
pangasius sp .i had one many years ago .i knew it as suchi but i cant find it on the cat-elog.

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HIall heres one on the side of the stupid.many years ago i used to go to a local shop every friday after work.one day while i was talking to the owner a guy came in and asked for "another "half dozen neon tetras as the ones he got last week had vanished .he couldnt understant it as the ang...

HI all a while ago i made one of those bio reactors using sugar,yeast etc.it worked fine my plants grew and even the old ones looked healthy.after a few months my brother came to visit and i showed him my new toy.My brother is a home wine maker and he told me about how when wine ferments it gives of...

Hi all in my house i have a 100 gall 24 x 24 x 48 tank and my problem is that i can never grow plants the way i see them in books or even on this site .i would love to have a lush planted tank bu t usualy end up with algi covered amozan swords and little else. what kind of lighting would suit a 24 i...

Hi all
i agree with Raccol .male festivum and female sturisomatichthys (bought mine as s .magdalense)
i have bred both and they will crossbreed so keep an eye on them
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Hi all the only reason i have 2 males to one female is because thats what i bought. not to encourage them to spawn but the female will spawn with either male.at the moment both males are on eggs one on an internal fillter one on the glass and both lots layed on the same day.i can remove the ones on ...

Hi all my sturisomas have layed eggs every 10 days or so for the last 2 years.i keep a trio of 1 female to 2 males in a 100 gall community tank .most of the time they lay the eggs on an internal filter which i remove on about day 6 .if they lay them on the glass i let them hatch then syphon the youn...

Hi all
looks like a young paleatus and a young aeneus to me.

Hi all i have hundreds of sturisoma fry now and i find the best way is to seperate the young as soon as they hatch i put them in a 12 inch cube with a songe filter at 80 degrees .i tried to leave them with the parents but i lost most of the young.i never saw mum or dad eat any but i did once see a b...

hi all
congadulations larry .i hope they keep on spawning for ages
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Hi all mine have spawned every 10 days or so for about 2 years now .i have 1 female with 2 males .at each spawn they lay between 50 and 100 eggs .the last time she layed with both males on the same night and i had males on eggs at each end of the tank .needless to say i have tanks full of young and ...

Hi all
quick question .how old is your oldest cory
in the last 6 months i have lost 3 .all were over 5 years old .is this about right?
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Hi all my team of sturisomas (2 male 1 female)spawned again last week as usual.but this time instead of spawning with just one male she layed about 50 eggs with each male at different ends of the tank on the same night .the eggs all hached ok yesterday .has anyone had this kind of thing happen to th...

Hi all when i got my first pair of adults they were fully grown and didnt take much notice of each other.a few months later i found another adult male .only a couple of weeks later the female became very fat with eggs .maybe it was watching the males fight (as they tend to do a lot)or maybe she just...

Hi bnalbino i have a trio in a 100 gal community tank 2 males and 1 female .they spawn every 10 days or so and have been doing for over 18 months now .the males both have a very lush "beard".the only difference is the one that she spawns with (they seem to take turns)tends to get a little ...

Hi all more tips on spawning 1/ increase filtration .i use 2 130 gal per hour ehime and a large internal fillter on a 100 gal tank 2/ feed catfish pellets and frozen livefood 3/ turn up the heat .i keep mine in a tank at 80 in the summer where they spawn on an internal filter . but in the winter whe...

Hi all i breed a lot of sturisoma and your right larry the fry do take frozen bloodworm and they grow much faster with a mixed diet than just flake and pellets.as for water changes i keep my main breeding trio (2 males 1 female)in a community tank in my living room.they lay eggs every 10 days or so ...

Hi all
last week i got a group of wild caught c.napoensis and in the group were 2 oddballs. one looks exactly like xingumikes fish the other looks like a cross between the 2 could this happen?
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Hi all
thanks madaka i did that and it looks like i have a group of cory napoensis 4 males 2 females almost fully grown .beautiful fish a very dark pattern on an almost pink background .looks like i will have to put them in my fish house and see if they will spawn.
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sorry it was my first attempt .will read the sticky

Hi all
got these this morning as shwartzi but obviously not.any ideas?

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hi all a couple of years ago i bought a pair of sturasomatichthys magdalense from a local shop.at the same time i got 2 pairs of what i took to be festivums (they look exactly the same as the festivums on the cat-elog )the only sturasomatichthys on the cat-elog at the time were leightoni so i looked...

Hi all last week i took some of my home bred fish to my local shop(it helps pay the bills).i took some corys and sturisoma i take them in large plastic jars in a pollybox .for the first time i mixed them in the jars 12 corys 12 whiptails by the time i got to the shop (about 45 mins)most of the whipt...

Hi larry i keep three festivums in my main tank one female and 2 males the female lays eggs every 10 days or so and she isnt fussy which male she spawns with.she lays around 50 to 60 eggs a time and has been doing this for well over a year.i find the best way to induce spawning is by exessive filtra...

Hi larry i already breed sterbi.trilineatus and harbrosus.(they help pay the bills)but for some reason the shwartzi wont spawn i now have a team of 10 wild adults bought from 2 sources when i got the second team home i put them in a small tank in my fishouse 24x12x12 and within a few days i found a ...

Hi all i have a group of wild shwartzi .they are well over a year old and have never spawned earlyer today i noticed one of the females was in the corner on her own and very still. at close inspection she looks fatter than the rest and is very red around the vent . could she be eggbound ?.i cant see...

hi all
i want to put sand in the bottom of my cory tanks im sure i read that you can use childrens play sand that you get in the diy stores .is this true?
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