Some formulas are better than others. Grub pie smells pretty nasty to me. Fruut Luups on the other hand, I would consider tasting. It really does smell like the cereal.

I mix mine up in old yogurt containers. Then I just stick it in the fridge and let it set (with the lid on). I take the container out and use a spoon to scoop out what I need to feed. 1/2 cup of food into the container followed by 1.5 cups of boiling water. Stir until evenly mixed with a spoon. That...

Weird. Not anything I deliberately attempted.

I use silicone to glue the acrylic strips in to hold my mattenfilters and that has worked pretty well. You do need to use thicker acrylic so that you have a larger bonding surface. I used 3/16" thick material. Household Goop also works well bonding acrylic to glass, But it has more flow to it t...

Once acclimated, and well cared for they do pretty well. Sadly many do not make it through acclimation to aquarium. I had my group for 5 years before I lost them all to a parasite infection. Although they are one of my favorite plecos, I won't keep them again as I don't think I can take the heartach...

Never a bad time at Cataclysm!

That is an awful lot for P. maccus.

I totally agree with you. The tools are cheap junk.

But the tile saw only cost me $19.99. It's still running well too.

I would have to go through 5 of them before it would equal the cheapest one at Home Depot.

Andy

I never had any problem with the flakes harming the plecos.

I bought a cheap tile saw at Harbor Freight to cut my tiles.

Andy

Yes. I use it all the time. I drill holes in it, run stainless steel screws through and use it to weight down wood I collect from the woods. I have also built a few caves with it but I found them too flimsy and easily broken compared to the terracotta ones and stopped using it for that. I also lean ...

I have actually had the opposite experience. For me, the woodcats would get into the cave first. And then the plecos would come in afterwards and strip their skin off. The woodcats couldn't escape as the pleco was blocking the exit. And the posterior of the woodcat is defenseless without any spines ...

I am right there with you guys. I have had my group since October. I have big fat females and watch the males chasing them but so far no luck.

The 40 breeder was taken off dollar per gallon but they do sell it at 50% off when its on promotion.

Pretty sure Aqueon is sending me again. Can't wait, got a new fish room to stock up!

I have done the same thing as Ken.

I had an 8' long gutter floor drain installed in my new fishroom for just such an occasion!

Well sad to say that I can add to this list. Over the weekend, due to a heater malfunction, I lost my tank of zebra plecos. 6 fish @$200 ea. I had only gotten one spawn out of them but I had already given the babies away. What's most unfortunate is that they were only a few weeks away from being mov...

It's an L002. Jools is right.

The picture is at an odd angle which is distorting the shape of the fish. Dekeyseria do not have that pattern on the face at all.

Andy

They are free living nematodes. I see them in my shrimp tanks regularly. Small fish will eat them often. But shrimp and larger fish seem to ignore them. They are harmless. Vacuuming the substrate during water changes will help remove them and their food supply which will reduce the population to unn...

Excellent. I just got some of the fuscoguttatus from rmc a couple weeks ago.

Can't wait to get them up and spawning soon.

Andy

You seem to be very misinformed about how legalese works. The regulation went into effect when it was published in 2014. The implementation date of May for the end of catchments, and the June 30th date of end of export are within the regulation. Nobody is debating that they are not legal to export n...

There are probably several different strains of common bristlenose out there. But the TR strains I have seen here in the U.S. most females have small bristles around the perimeter of the snout. The Catelog has a really good picture of a pair of albinos that you can clearly see the bristles on the fe...

I agree with Eric. These are all females. Female BN will often have small bristles that run around the perimeter of the snout. But they will not have bristles that run up the snout from the tip to the eyes. Only males will have that. At this size there should be some bristles higher on the head if t...

That's what I take it to mean.

? You said exactly the same thing I said. They are still allowed until June 30, 2018. After which they are banned. The market is responding to an anticipated shortage and prices are going up. If there have been modifications to the law I have not seen them. But please feel free to research and post ...

I wonder how they would like pumpkin? Would seem about the same as zucchini or cucumber skin I would think?

You are kidding right? Taking the first paragraph out of context and not including the second paragraph is extremely misleading. Yes they are legal to export now. But that ends June 30, 2018 (6.5 months from now). So it is entirely reasonable that the prices would go up for a highly desirable fish t...

Bio Piracy is the smuggling of animal/plants from one country to another. The most famous example of which is the taking of 70,000 rubber plant seeds from Brazil by the Englishman Sir Henry Wickham in 1876. At the time, Brazil had a monopoly on the production of natural rubber (synthetic rubber had ...

You will need to translate the page from portugese but I don't believe you are correct.


http://www.icmbio.gov.br/cepsul/images/ ... l_2017.pdf

The second photo is likely a females or young immature male. But judging by their size relative to the plants, the possibility of being immature males is unlikely. Females may often have short bristles that extend around the perimeter of the snout parallel to the plane of the bottom of the fish. Mal...

Looks like Peckoltia sp. L080 to me.