My adult ancistrust start doing the same thing .I slice a zuccinni down the middle and hang it in the tank and they stop.In a couple of week they will start again .may be she wants a change of diet.
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Well my heard has started another nest ,I added some sycamore leaves to the tank and watched the fun while they were incorporated into the nest .Maybe this time.
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Yep that too .Itis easer to get a new cammera
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My camera shot so I will try to make my self clear. To wipp is to rap tightly with cording like serving a line to keep the end from fraying ,a mono loop is a short length of monofiliment fishing line that is tied to the end of a lure. Fly line is a length of different kinds of line generally 90ft lo...

Yep the hard part is reclaiming your fly,they bite!

I don't use a hook .I use a 4to6 in length of white nylon line unravualed .I fix it to my fly tippit buy melting the end and to make it hard and then I wipp on a mono loop.most of the time I use an eight rod with a weight foward bass bug line
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I have two males and one female and have had about 5 nest but no fry yet.
Good luck
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Yep they are good eats ,better than any crab cake I ever tasted and fun to catch .I use a fly rod with a 4in peice of nylon rope unraveled ,It hangs up in their teeth and they can be relised unharmed I always cut females loose.

Your a hoot,or is woot
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I agree it is a shame to kill such a beauty. Just for a point of information I learned to cook gar from the Seminole buddies I grew up with . Split the fish down the back and remove the back strap slice into medallions and lightly fry .It taste like Fla. lobster .Also you and remove the internals [u...

I am sorry you have been bitten by the Florida /Yankee bug.I has not always been that was but with the introduction of our good friends from up north they always want it like it was back home [probably why they left] Owell all you can do is tough it out good luck I look forward to seeing your effort...

Building the bow front was my first and took three trys ,one of the oldtimers showed me the trick to bending the glass. The tank is toast. the bottom is cracked form one corner to the other.with all the scratches in the walls it is not worth rebuilding .I have a 40 gal tank to use until I make up my...

Really I was working a temp job at a window and glass co. and built the tank for a customer,I left that job and went back to see the guys about 6mos.later and the tank was still there in the wood box I had built for it.I ask the bossman about it and he told me to get it out of the shop the guy had n...

The glass is intact must be the seams.
I built the tank in 1970 and have dissasembled it three times This time I will polish the glass

Last nite we had the majordomo of all thunder storms .at 1030pm three bolts of lightning and thunder that shook the house. at mid nite I went to the porch were my tanks are to smoke my pipe .I stepped into water. Saturday I cleaned a 55gal bow front tank and put in clean sand and plants and left the...

Well the nest is gone this morning ,I guess she had a head ache!

As of late I have been working on planting my tanks and I was about to post some pict. of the job complete .in the process I have drained one than that housed a female hoplo.I did not want to put her with a male so I put my two male together ,what a war ,I put the male back to his tank and put the f...

Darn thats a neet fish and I ate seven of them just last week .I will keep the next small ones I catch to swim with my hoplos.

Dear miz bananna being a well rounded Deer hunter I am impressed with your Rack
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I am aware that it may be in bad taste and or against site rules but I think I would like to know the name and web site that you were dealing with.This may protect some of us from purchasing from them

Frist find a market for these fish ,lets say they are good to eat [witch they are ] Now put a limit on how many you can catch .Charge a big fine for possesing them and thoses crooks down there will fall over each other to steal them out of the lake.Bam no more fish
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I thought i had two females and one male untill they were two years old, then the males developed hooks on there horns
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re the hoplos nesting ? Mine really play ruff when guarding the nest,one of mine sliced open the back of my hand while guarding.
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mine go nuts for shrimp pellets.They sink and break up into small bits .
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My first wife became that way after I married her.

Picture horses fish nest 024.jpg Here are some pict.of the second nest .It appears to be unsuccessful also. Learned a good lesson ,don't put your hand in the tank with a nesting male .I made this mistake and was rewarded with a painful cut on the back of my hand .The male charged all the way across...

I would love to go to the UK I will even learn to speak the language but Washington DC are you kidding I was there in the 60's as an honor guard for the Kennedy funeral,that place is a dump.
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I will check out the web site, thanks

Every thing looked perfect but no fry ,I don't know what happened
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Looks like a cross between angelicus and eruptera ,I will catch it out of hiding when it settles down

I would love to be there but it is to far to drive .Do they ever have shows in Florida USA