pics aren't mine, I've never been south of Nogales, Mexico. They're from that brazilian fishing site. They also have information on how to angle some of our favorite tankbusters, if you run it through alta vista's portugese to english translator.

the second to last one there's awfully cute... wonder if they'll be importing them soon, certainly didn't take any time at all for L333 to hit the states.

they are south americans, they are loricarids, but I can't tell you much beyond that

I'm very sorry Lisa

Platydoras dentatus is listed in Burgess' atlas of cafish, but the book has neither a picture nor a description on that species, so I did a google search, found it limited, fishindex lists it as a synonym of P. costatus, so does this german site http://www.zierfischverzeichnis.de/ordnungen/silurifor...

uhh... clothahump, you mention overpopulation as one of those evils... The countries that are increasing their populations the fastest are not north american or european. http://www.pregnantpause.org/numbers/fertility.htm http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19970729/21050943.html an overview... 2 c...

Where I live we have a power outage every few months, but normally they last less than 15 minutes, longest one I can remember was about 3 or 4 hours. I've got a battery powered airstone, but I really use that more for transport than anything else. I did have an 8 hour period where our power was out ...

I was thinking the same thing Clay...

you have other tanks? if you've got a filter cartridge from one of the eclipses that has been on the tank for long enough for some buildup to occur you can actually use it to your advantage, you can remove it, there should be at least a little bit of room behind the filter pad where you could put th...

Fiskars, does the filter you have have a basket in it that you could put some sort of media in, like bio-rings or cell-pore or something? Most either have that or have bio-wheels, a bio-grid, or a seperate sponge that you don't remove. Walmart seems to sell the Regent line pretty strongly, so we'll ...

haha, 25% water changes aren't going to be enough. I'd check to make sure your test kit's not screwed up cause if your fish have been in ammonia of 4 to 5 ppm for more than a day or so they'd be having serious problems... even 1 ppm is pretty dangerous. my suggestion would be 75% water changes and t...

could be some, none I know of. I have had discus parents and ram parents lose every spawn to plecos if the eggs are left in the tank. Plecos being nocturnal certainly helps, as even the rams were really biting at my fingers when I'd remove the eggs. Good parents, but... However the tank was heavily ...

Honestly, I don't think anything would turn down an attempt at eggs...

*sigh* the amazon river drainage runs the whole spectrum of water types, the one you're considering is from the higher elevations where water moves much more quickly. For instance... rio xingu, which the fish you've got in your signature, comes from http://www.balaio.com.br/pesca/pesqueiros/xingu/xi...

well, rubbernoses aren't really hypostomus species if you're looking for a pleco in general that will live in a 55 there are many... just about anything on my site except the L014, L114, the royal, or L025, would do fine in a 55 gallon. any peckoltia, hypancistrus or panaqolus species should be fine...

Me too Yann, but look at the prices people pay for flowerhorns...

Caol_ila, actually this fish is not infertile, they are able to produce similar offspring. http://www.glofish.com/science/NUS%20Fluorescent%20Zebra%20Fish%20Viability%20Study.pdf and for spiny, there is a piece on the toxicity of these fish http://www.glofish.com/science/Cubitt%20Analysis%20of%20Flu...

you quarentine it in a seperate tank... then move it over when the stress of moving from the store to your house is over and it's eating and healthy.

;) there any nuclear power plants on Xingu? looks like we've got Blinky the 3 eyed fish here.

why regulate them any differently than regular zebra fish from an ecological point of view? they'll do no more damage than a regular zebra fish. eat the same, attain the same size, breed the same, behave the same, they're just different colors. ;) I will say banning them is a step in the right direc...

Hi there, and welcome to the board.

haha, keeping tigrinus in groups... I wish I had that kind of cash ;) but seriouslyI keep one of each, tigrinus and juruense, I have the tigrinus in a 90 gallon temporary home with 3 leopoldi stingrays. he's at about a foot. The juruense is like 5 inches, so he'd be dinner in that tank for someone I...

I bought some ice cube treys at the grocery store for smaller ice cubes(more surface area, cools drinks faster), the cube size is about the size of a gum drop or the first knuckle of your index finger, they worked great for me.

There are a few species, the 3 most likely are L002 (I paid about $25 per fish for these) http://scott.aaquaria.com/catfish_files/05.jpg L015 (got them by accident, about $20 each, worth much less) http://scott.aaquaria.com/catfish2_files/14.jpg L038 (got this one in a similar way that you got yours...

haha... I had an old version, bootlegged of most of the covers off the garage days, also has what's called the elevator version of Nothing Else Matters. Similar to the version on S & M, but it had been done in a studio with no audience... many times superior to the one they put out recently. But...

yeah, I used a clear flavorless gelitan solution to help keep the cubes together when I made discus food, that way even thawed they will stay together underwater. I quit doing that a while back cause I completely gave up on beefheart for discus, partially because preparing it was so unpleasant. I ha...

Actually, I stated that I owned both M. tigrinus and B. juruense. You can see right under my avatar that I'm in the US. I even linked to stores in the US where these fish can be purchased. You'll likely never see them in a store, they're a bit rare, and few stores are willing to spend $300 on a fish...

interesting. I don't remember whether Ross suggested the vitamin for the main tank or for the feeder tank... either way it didn't interest me as I never have fed feeders and if I ever have to it'll be guppies or swordtails and not goldfish.

Ross mentions that in his stingray's of south america book(he is actually talking about goldfish though) and mentions a certain B vitamin being added to the water of the tank to combat deficiencies. ;) one of the reasons I always have fed pellets and other foods... one kind of fish is unlikely to ho...

canned or fresh? heh, I'm not very good when it comes to fish. ahi tuna is about all I eat and I don't prepare that myself.