Trumpet snails do not eat live healthy eggs. They do eat the infertle and fungused eggs. Some cory breeders put trumpet snails in with eggs to eat the bad ones and stop the spread of fungus.

I even have a nice thicket of small crypts off to one side.

The German Blue Rams are as big as anyone around here has seen. They are 3+ inches long and do not bother the Loricaria or try to take away their eggs. I also have with them a couple of pairs of Gold and Electric Blues.

I keep and breed my Loricaria simillima in a 100 gallon tank with discus, torpedo barbs and German blue rams at 83 degrees F. A box filter in one end and a 500 Aqua Clear on the other. I have never had a problem and raise lots of fry by taking the eggs a day or two before they are ready to hatch.

I have found that the females carry the gene for finnage. I crossed a male short finned albino that was pure from short fin stock that had been around before long fins were developed. How do you know that the male was pure short-fin stock? Have you tried crossing the male's offspring with their sib...

Thank you. There are a lot of fish that leave it questionable as to whether they are separate species or just colour variants.

I have found that the females carry the gene for finnage. I crossed a male short finned albino that was pure from short fin stock that had been around before long fins were developed. He spawned with a brown lace long fin female. All the resulting fry were brown but about 20% were long fin. They hav...

I picked up a trio of cories at a LFS. They were the only 3 in the tank and had no name given. According to the pictures they are probably C. axelrodi they also look like the picture of CW-021. My question is are they both the same fish?

My 204's eat everything. Sinking cichlid pellets, wafers all frozen foods as well as vegetables. They are not fussy eaters. But they are big 6 inch fish that are reluctant to spawn.

After a good number of failed or eaten spawns I finally got a successful spawn of 50 fry from my 183's last spring. I found all it takes is one or more eggs to go bad and the male trys to chew them out of the clutch and gets carried away. Next thing you know a chewed up ball of eggs would be kicked ...

What is the seaweed that you are using? Agar a type of seaweed bought at health food stores is used by discus breeders in the beef heart as it has a higher melting point than gelatin. Some people are baking these cookies in the oven before refrigerating them.

Has anyone got a recipe for making pleco cookies for meat eaters. All I can find on my search is for snail cookies for feeding and raising snails. I have heard of a few people experimenting but no positive results.

Under conditions that suit them cories can live a long time. I knew of a fellow years ago that had a small group of Aeneus that were 20 years old and still spawning. I have some such as my Rabauti and A few others that are at least 10 years old. Good food and water as well as temperatures in the low...

I have had possibly the same problem with a couple of long fin albino bushynose plecos. I first noticed fine redish brown threads hanging from the anus. I have been able to get rid of them by holding the fish in a net and carefully pulling out the worms that are up to a 1/2" long out with a pai...

I have an adult trio of L-183's. The females have no bristles at all. I also have L-182's. Some females have no bristles at all and some do. But they are around the mouth but not down the top of the nose like the males. Most of these plecos I have found take at least a year to grow up and do not spa...

I use the European Black Alder Cones to protect cory eggs and pleco eggs that get kicked out of caves. The tannic acid in the cones is the main ingredient that does the job of protecting eggs from fungus. I have been experimenting and have used it to make water acidic to spawn tetras and other fish ...

There are several vegetables and greens that I feed that no one mentions. I cook the heavy stocks from broccoli and then split them open. Ancistrus love the soft inside. A first food for the ancistrus fry is snow peas blanched then frozen. Thaw then split them open and they eat them down to veins in...

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...

In January I had problems with a King Tiger spawning. The fry refused to eat and started to die and all attempts to save them failed. But my second pair had spawned a few days later and were left in the cave until they started to hatch and were being swished out. I removed the fry and unhatched eggs...

I like the idea of snow or rain as well.The price is right.As for the roof the house was built in July 2006.So if I was to use the water from the roof when the house hits about 1 yr.would this be OK? To be safe what should I test it for? Or am I better off collecting rain the hard way in buckets in...

My 6 L-204 Flash plecos were between 3 and 4 inches long when I bought them last February. They are now big enough to spawn and hopefully not far from it. At least 2 are now mature males 6"+ long not counting the filaments on the tail. The females are plump and about 5". A lot of sparing a...

alenate wrote:I have the same problem with my 66´s.
The ting that i´v notise is that death usually accure right they have been feed.
It seems like they sufficate.
Someone with the same experience?

When I come up with an answer to the problem I will post it.

Hi Bwhiskered, Like Barbie said, I've had similiar problems with my L333 and L287(L399/L400). This only is occuring with one group. I have another group of L333 and L340(L399/340)that does not have this problem. I am still working on trying to figure out what the problem is. If you should find out ...

If your fish spat out sixty fry, then they are most definitely not L-66. My fish are L-66. I feed my fish heavily with mysis shrimp. They are 6" long and at least 3 years old. My L-201 have had as many as 31 fry in a spawning. Some people have told me that they only have 6. Healthy well fed fi...

fishfarmer wrote:Are you keeping the spawning bowls and 10 gallon tanks at 85? Mine wouldn't breed at temperatures less than 82 and seem much happier at 84-85, so I would assume the fry also like it warmer.

Steve

All tanks and bowls run at 84 to 86.

i have got 6 of these fish. I am sure that i have 4Females and 2 males. I have gottem 4 spawns from them before and non of their eggs have been fertile/fungused within 2-3 days. All ranged from 12-27 eggs. But today i had a spawn of 46 eggs. As usual i collected the eggs and put them in a small ice...

After 55 years in the hobby and raising a few thousand fish of various species every year I usually am able to figure out the answers to my own problems.But sometimes some one has answers to save you the losses that you have trying to figure things out. Early in January my King Tigers kicked out a c...