Sounds as a reasonable theory, and it doesn't make me to happy . However, I will not rest before I have some females .

I recently purchased three L204. It looks like they are all males (see also http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18694 for the topic I opened about my L204). For this reason I am looking for L204 females. I got in contact with someone who has two L204 and is maybe willing to trade one ...

Mats, thank you for your detailed reply. I will certainly stick to this formula once they are settled and perhaps have grown a cm or two. Medium hard water is no problem (straight from the tap :D ). Soft water is more difficult as I do not have a RO unit (maybe I can try to collect rainwater). Do yo...

Thanks everybody, I expected fish 2 being a male. I hoped (and still do) that fish 1 was (is) a female because 'she' is about 1 cm larger than the male and doesn't have as much hair as him. Fish 3 is some smaller than the other two and does have the least hear. Are there no cluess based on the body ...

Hi everybody, As this is my first post I will introduce myself shortly. My name is Jean Paul Verkade and I am from the Netherlands. I have been keeping fish for quite a long time now, mainly keeping dwarf cichlids such as apistogramma. Since a year or two my interested has shifted slowly to (small) ...