Merci beaucoup. I am a member now, thanks for advice.

Janne wrote:Nej det finns inga forum för oss malfantaster på svenska.

Va trist! Det är på samma sätt här i Finland. We only have general aquarium forums...

Can anyone tell me if there exists a French catfish forum. I have been looking for one in hope of regaining my French skills. All I have found is general aquarium forums in French. Does anyone have an idea?

Thank you Silurus, this is something I have been looking for quote a long time.

But I do agree with you that the Scandinavians have no problems in partisipating on English forums. We might suck a little in the terms of correct spelling, but people tend to get the point. I actually think that as much as 90% of the Scandinavians younger then 40'ish +/- know english pretty well. ...

I use a rubber band and a small stone to make vegetables sink.

In Finland there has been a lot of talk about using clove oil to kill fish when it is necessary. Some people have used it with good results i.e. seemingly painless death. It can also be used as a fish anaesthetic . The dose to use to kill a fish is larger than that to use to put a fish to sleep and ...

Here comes my attempt: Strange as it may seem, a Tunze Turbelle Stream is rushing and bubbling and Corys are swimming against that powerful stream. Hopefully this is what you meant, Dinyar. The pattern is A A B B A, as I think it is supposed to be. I might want to change some words to something simi...

I read in here of someone using it in a asian black water tank as a substrate, in the asian forum. I have a peat bottom in my 65-liter killifish tank. You can either buy peat from your LFS or from a flower or garden shop here where I live. Comparing the prices you might observe that peat is more ex...

I exprerience the same thing sometimes. Normally they dig when they want to get under something like a rock or a piece of bog wood. My LDA 33 digs at night, usually in the front corners of the tank, though, there is nothing in there. Maybe he does it just for fun. One time a was obligated to keep my...

I am waiting for some S. flavitaeniatus to appear in my LFS myself. I have understood that they are quite peaceful, even very shy, and tolerate well other fish. Maybe you could ask your LFS to order one or more of them for you.

I have six zebras in a 170 l tank with strong current and high temperature. I have decided not to have any tank mates and I would suggest the same to you, if you are planning to spawn them or else you might consider taking the tank mates away when the zebras are full grown. My zebras have eaten so f...

I have a bit different diet for Hypancistrus and Baryancistrus : with Hypancistrus the emphasis on meaty foods and with Baryancistrus on green foods. My panaqolus seems to like the kind of food I give to hypancistrus but likes veggies more than they do. I have tried with succes the following foods: ...

I am not any kind of a specialist but just an ordinary hybbyist and wated to point out that if I were you I would keep the temperature a bit higher.

A very good question, Anders. I would be very interested to get some sort of an answer to that. I have two LDA 33's, too. Both LDA 33 and L 142 seem to come from Rio Tapajos and belong to genus Baryancistrus . Information that I have got from scattered sources on the web maintains that LDA 33 comes ...

How's he doing? just wondering: why didn't you use a QT? Thanks for asking, Klaus. He is doing fine and has put on some weight and does not look skinny anymore. You are so right about that I should have used a QT... Till now I have been gamblig (and haven't lost so far) and haven't really used a QT...

Nice Haiku, but I'm not sure how much of the day going by a zebra can see 10 metres down! :) But when he is in my tank... Anyway, I didn't mean it quite so concretely... but the next one is a very concrete haiku about my Baryancistrus sp. LDA 33: My mighty catfish chased away other plecos. Prize: n...

Thanks, I will come back to this topic after a while to tell you how it all ended up.

Saara

I change 50 % every sunday in my sparsely populated tanks. Sometimes I do the same on thursday, too. Tap water parameters are great in Helsinki area: very soft and neutral water. In addition to keeping nitrates down, one of the key ideas behind the habit is to keep the aquarium water and tap water q...

Thanks, Dinyar, thanks. :D I really try to compensate the heat by an effective powerhead keeping the surface water moving, good filtration and weekly 50 % water changes. Thanks again two of you. *very, very happy, thinking of jumping up and down but trying to calm down* :D I really don't know what o...

It looks like a PERFECT tank to me; almost UNDERSTOCKED! These fish will have a nice big roomy place in there. Wow, I am so happy if you really think so! :D Thank you for your opinion, SG Eurystomus. Why so warm? all those fish will do fine at 24-25'C For the LDA 33's that I already have in there. ...

I am considering setting up a catfish community tank of 490 l the main water parameters beeing: 27,5 C, pH 7,0, KH 2,0, a powerhead producing current. Could I have there these fish? - 4 Synodontis flavitaeniatus - 10 Corydoras sterbai - 2 Baryancistrus LDA 33 (- 1 + 2 Apistogramma nijsseni - 6 Cross...

To all my Hypancistrus zebras:

Delicate beauty
Lying lazy in warm water
watching days pass by.

How do you clean the tank of poop etc when using fine sand. I use a normal syphon for small pebbles and these sometimes gets sucked into the dirty water bucket? Do you just keep replacing the lost sand? It seems to me that waiste just does not really get inside sand but rather keeps accumulating on...

I have four of them and two other ones waiting in the aquarium store for me to pick them up. They are quite young so that it is hard to sex them. I have tried to select two males and two females, but you never know until they have grown up. Thanks again, S. Allen. You have a fine homepage, especiall...

Köning Löwe, I ordered a Eheim 1262 powerhead, a Sera nitrate test and some Eheim spear parts and a filterplate before Christmas. I chose cash-on-delivery payment and received all things within a month except for the fiterplate, which they didn't have on the stock, but I didn't had to pay for that, ...

Thanks. As a non-native english speaker I decided to call the thing a centrifugal pump because they are typically sold under that name at the internet store I use. And as Silurus kindly explained, I really referred to a powerhead as you seemed to call it. If you want to learn languages, they are cal...

That was comforting. Thanks, Dinyar.

He seems to be doing well, but maybe it is really too soon to say anything... I will come back to the topic after a month or so, if anything serious does not happen before.

How effective, in l/h, a centrifugial pump should be used to create the needed current to a zebra breeding tank of 490 l? I have currently a 3400 l/h Eheim 1262 in addition to filters. I consider it inadequate. I am pondering purchasing a Tunze turbelle stream 6080 of over 8000 l/h - hopefully that ...

I made a mistake: I purchased a pleco, Baryancistrus sp. LDA 33, and realised no sooner than at home, that he was a bit thin from the stomach and the face but the eyes were not sunk in. What are his chances to survive? He is eating very well and is the most active fish in the 490-liter tank, the oth...