sugggest you take a water sample down to a LFS and have them test your water. You need to test for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels. If these check out fine start a general antibacteral medication. what diet do you give your plec? it's 6 years old it should be big a fat, whereas it looks kind of ...

chicken after a few days IMO chicken is not to be considered a good meal for any fish. From what i've read so far the facts are. tank is too small, water changes not often enough or not enough changed each time plus force feeding large amounts of food. Sound to me as if the triginus is eating so mu...

Unless this tank is very big i am of the opinion that it's got a dangerously low KH. that is to say your pH could crash any second, there are not many reasons to maintain a KH this low.

besides that the move you describe sounds fine.

I have the same problem just with 10 clown loach an a bunch of other smaller loaches. basicly twice a week fill the clown loachs up with loads of foods blood worms, prawns, earth worms, the more protein the better. Then come feeding time for the other bottom dwellers the loach are too full to care. ...

less algae=less food for snails=less snails.

LIPOSARCUS PARDALIS

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Can anyone tell me if there is going to be a bigger hard back out soon?

How long has it been without it's spots? stressed ancistrus do lose there spots sometimes. Have you looked into reasons as to why it might be stressed, tank mates, water conditions... ect?

I thought i'd found some a few months back traveled for a couple of hours only to find L002s. So i went round all their tanks correcting the identification of about eight L numbers. not a totally wasted trip though, the lack of knowledge meant there was a young L114 for £15 (normally about £30 UK ...

Have a look through the cat-eLog under Hypancistrus.

are Synodontis brichardi sexed in the much the same way as other Synos,

Yes.

Have you read the sexing information in the cat-elog under S. eupterus?

The L/LDA number system came about because we discovered so many species in such a small amount of time that there is simply not enough time to give them full scientific names. So the L numbers and LDA numbers are just temporary until they are fully identified.

some of my fish have come down with what appears to be gill disease.

How did you come to this conclusion? what are the symptoms?

Two or three times a week is quite normal for any species of fish, they do sometimes scratch themselves the same way we sometimes scratch ourselves (its just that most do it on plants and wood ect so unless you watch for the behaviour it would go unnoticed). It doesn't mean there is an actual infect...

I have a few questions first.

Have you tested the water? what were the results?
How often is it scratching itself?
Is there any gray patches of skin or any marks...ect?
How long have you had the E-cat for?
It well be hard to speculate cause without alot more information.

Any of the above, meaning the larger-sized varieties I mentioned?

yep.

So would an anti-bacterial medicine help or just be over kill? Thank you. Over kill as it's not a good idea to mix chemicals unless you know exactly what you are mixing. Secondary infections should be handled as and when you see them. The best you can do is to keep your water quality as good as pos...

If the white spot in advanced stage you will need to use a combination of heat treatment. increase tank temperature to 30-32C this will increase parasite life cycle, and use a 50% dose of any white spot treatment. If no improvement after a couple of days of treatment you can move up to a full dose t...

1. What do I do about the sick-like Pictus? I would start doing 20% water changes each day to give the pictus the best chance. Is he burned from the Rid-Ich? no Is it just because the tank is super, super cloudy? The water is cloudy most likely because of a bacterial bloom. Do you know what he migh...

No sterazin does not contain Fenbendazole either.

IME, Under the best conditions i would say on average 2cm per month.

A albino channel catfish that my father bought when i was a baby I now keep the same fish in my fish house.

An i still look at it an think "you started all this".

Need more information about tank set up, water quality. what type of substrate do you have, anything that might help. pictures of tanks and fish could also help.

IMO you could keep a group of 6 of any of the above. just keep track of water quality and do regular water changes, one 25-40% a week will be fine.

waterlife will not tell anyone whats in their chemicals, However they will tell me whats not so i can tell you there are no Copper salts or Organophosphates in Sterazin.

H. microps is not valid This is my opinion as well however Fish base still recognise the name? (just thought i'd point out another flaw). To be more clear about the venom issue. The times it has proven fatal there was no heat treatment and they were fully injected due to standing on the fish in flo...

This condition can also be caused by an eye fluke and a seperate bacterial infection. Age would have lowered the immune system of your P. costatus and now it's become more susceptible.

Ok, im dead then

nice reply Achim.

But seriously the venom can kill.

The second Heteropneustidae if accepted I believe would be recognised as H. microps. And i am not sure of the poison of this species.

both gibbys would be my first choice.