What size tank are they are in? I also have mine in a 125 gallon. The biggest is 8" long and the smaller ones are about 6". I grew out the smaller ones separately from 3" in another tank and put them in there when they were about 4"+ and I have not ever seen any aggression betwee...

Jools wrote: Could you provide a list of plecos you've observed eating live shrimp?

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Second this. The only shrimps I've seen plecos eat are ones which were already dead.

Unless it was by accident none of my plecos have eaten my cherry shrimp. The plecos include Hypans, Peckoltia, Scobiancistrus, Pseudacanthicus, Ancistrus and Baryancistrus.

Why not just build a 2x4 frame and skin it instead of trying to reinforce the stand or using cinder blocks for a new one? Cheap and fairly simple and you can make the inside and outside look like anything you want. Joey Mullins' series on Youtube (a fellow Canuck from Nova Scotia) is awesome if you ...

I use Estes white silica sand in my non-planted tanks (non is relative as there are still plants in them). I pump water out for water changes, so I use an Eheim sludge extractor to clean the sand. I run an Eheim 2078 in the tank and sand in the filter has not been a problem for the impeller, but did...

Thanks for clarifying Jason. I didn't mean inverted. I meant that they are not independent. The partial pressures are dependent on the other partial pressures of all gases in solution, that's all.

I don't think oxygen replaces CO2, I think their relative concentrations are independent I don't think that's quite accurate since the partial pressures of all the dissolved gases in a fluid are interrelated. So having higher O2 and other gases will affect how much CO2 may be dissolved in a fluid. ...

I've never been able to keep Baryancistrus long. I have had B. demantoides, B. chrysolomus(L047), B. xanthellus, (L177) and B. beggini (L239). Of all those, I have had the most success with B. beggini. I currently still have 3 of the 5 that I got last year. The longest I've ever had any Baryancistru...

Unfortunately, I agree with the previous poster. I've never been able to keep a juvie to adulthood. I've tried numerous times and they either eventually stop eating or they die after months of happy lives. I've never been able to figure out why any of mine died, and I've had 5 or 6 of them.

Too bad. But as you suggested, now that he's done it once maybe he'll be a better parent the second time.

Great post Darrel. This should perhaps be some sort of FAQ article. It dispels many myths about soft water systems and blackwater biotopes.

It's easy enough to maintain a small amount of GH/KH by maintanining by decorating the tank with certain rocks or gravels, like aragonite, or a bit or rock containing magnesite. A pinch of epsom salts would do the trick too and is dirt cheap. That's what we do out here on the Canadian west coast whe...

They're all Scobiancistrus, so there's a chance they can all interbreed I would think.

I personally run controllers on all my tanks that require higher heat because of potential accidents like this. Too cool is manageable, but boiling the fish worth $$ is a big tragedy. The only tanks I don't have controllers on are my growout tanks that I watch every single day, several times a day.

Wow! Very nice. Keep us posted with updates.

Not crazy or greedy but the diets are fairly different between Ancistrus and the Hypans. People do it with the common BNP's, but with L183, not sure if you will have problems.

Nice P. scrophus. How big is it?

You can get around that posting problem by replying to yourself and having the limit of pics per post. ;)

Nice evolution. I've come to the same conclusion with HC. I have S. repens and HC in the same tank and the S. Repens is so much lower maintenance.

Don't worry about the English or some of the not perfect photos. I, for one, love the frequent updates and day by day explanation and closeups of what's going on! Keep it coming.

I'm only allowed one tank per room, so I had to "make" a home office to get a second one in the den.

Very nice Mats. Where do you find room for all these? I guess that's the advantage of having a fishroom (or the semblance of one).

Very nice. I've not seen these Peckoltia locally before.

Those are some great photos. And a great journal documenting the development of the eggs. Thanks for continuing.

Krawallo wrote:
PS. what´s the right name for the Aquarium Frontglas ? Windshield is from a car

We all just call it the front glass.

Gold nuggets are actually pretty cheap, but as MatsP says, they are difficult to keep. I've had a number through the years and I currently still have only one. They only take a long time to mature and require a bigger tank to breed. I would recommend Ancistrus (the common one) if you just want to br...

Sorry to hear that. So you think the temperature being too high may have caused them not to utilize the yolk sac?

Wow, they still have full yolksacs?

Thank you for clarifying the bending of light. I did say that there is some bending of light, though. I've studied up on acrylic and its use in aquariums in the recent past, and it is really amazing that it possesses all these qualities! I've seen warning labels depicting a person swinging a baseba...

I guess I might just purchase a new tank one of these days. I'll have to find a bow front 47 gallon acrylic aquarium. These things being one whole solid piece, having no sealants, and just being acrylic means they are much stronger than glass. Plus, acrylic, being light-weight and a lot more heat e...

that is brilliant new. thanks for the info, as these are hard to breed indeed. keep up the photos of the development. cheers jk I wonder if part of the problem is that they're being kept in water that's too cool. The Cat-e-log says 22 - 25 and furrfred's report and others I have read said they bred...