that's great! my pleco's always went to a small cave and stay they after they were introduced to my tank, what other kind of fish do u hav?

sojapat wrote:Best algae eaters for this are loaches im afraid .
Crossochelius are good but can you get them in your country
Siamese flying fox are good to.

are kuhli loaches good at eating black beard too?

i'm actually really shocked! that algae was black beard! because the other type of blacke beard i esperienced was very long like hair but this is actually black beard!
by the way thanks mats for the link it will come in handy

oh ok and i realised that they dont eat this type of algae i really dont know the nameis but it is kind of bushi and it liiks like small clumps of sea weed or grass what type of algae is this? i dont think its black beard though

im wiondering what types of algae cf. cirrhosus' will eat, because i noticed there is this bushy type of algae growing in my tank and i highly doubt it is black beard algae
could some one tell me what types of algae these ancistrus' will eat?
thanks

mate unlucky about the bushy nose. personely i think any loricadspecies thrive mor on a wider tank because they are bottom dwellers

i've had 1 cory and when i added an another i realised that my old 1 had kept hassling it. i know the 1 i had originally was male because it showed some courting signs with a definite female before the female died. is my old 1 trying to establish a hierarchy or just hassling this fish to mate? they ...

whats your p.h. and other water condition levels? how many fish do you have? how many times a fortnight do u do water changes? i think maybe other fish might be picking on it because when i got a small bristlenose pther fish picked on it quite alot or maybe it is suffering stress cant tell without t...

it seems that that you kept livebeaers in the first picture judging by the isolation nets

hi if you live in canberra i'm really looking for an aquarium that sells pelco's for a cheap price. i already know 1 which is redtree aquariums in fyshwick(what a coincedence!) and they only sell ancistrus cf. cirrhosus and other which cost around above 100 dollars. because of how old i am i need a ...

how big is your tank in litres? i've been trying to breed a few pleco's and i'm just wondering whats the appropriate tank size

sorry mats! i'm just really confused on what to do thanks anyway mats!!

i posted a topic about the the egg white coating on drift wood feeding technique before is the egg white effect the water in anyway?

ok so what kind of food or specific vege's do u recommend???
i usually feed them "new life spectrum stable wafers" or specturm thera pellets
and of course the occasional zucchini, carrot and broccoli.

lol its like an illusion

MatsP wrote: Most fish grow throughout their entire life, not like mammals that only grow for a set portion of their life.Mats

oh ok. i;ve got a (approximately) 10 cm or over britlenose and that would just keep growing until it dies?

I've got 2 albino bristlenoses and they are just over 4.5 cm long and 1 2.5 cm long normal bristlenose and i'm just wondering how long it would be when they reach full maturity? and recently i got my second albino and it put a small push and shove with my other albino. do females pick fights with ea...

To chip in - if they were reasonable money, they are probaly commons - aka A. cf. cirrhosus - others that are positively identified tend to be more expensive. To get a positive ID people will generally ask which river it came from, which is info rarely available. the female i have im sure of it as ...

in the pleco feeding techniques, (shanes world) it suggest using an ehh white coating with fish food in the tank.
would the egg white affect the water anyway?

I hav 2 ancistrus cf cirhosus' and they have been living happily in an 70 litre tank i've beeen wondering that should i use a bigger tank because they are fully gorwn adults and have been living in this tank for 2 years and showed no problems. but all the cotm and other information suggest i get a p...

I've been fish keeping since I was 12 for 2 years now and i'm really starting to get into the concept of having catfish. because of my age and budget , I was wondering what are the most cheap loriicads, beside ancistrus cf. cirhosus. i was also wondering where i could buy them in canberra. I already...

This is a major problem for me identifying diferent bristlenoses. I've got 2 ancistruses which I've been trying to spawn, but personely I don't think these bristlenoses are the same species. After looking in the cat-elog,i thought my 2 fish might be a. cf. sirrhosus, but I've got a small book called...

So Baspels, to really identify a catfish is if its has no scales and have brabels too???

Lately i've had an Albino shark. it had 2 barbel shaped tentacles coming out from its mouth and it seems to use the barbels search for food in my java moss and even though its not a catfish, I think it should be known as a catfish same with their known cousins the rainbow shark. I'm not really sure ...