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http://www.myfishtank.net/forum/attachments/rate-my-tank-freshwater/10105d1295753925-newmans-40-gallon-planted-tank-dscn2643.jpg When my tank looked like this, i had 0 nitrates regularly. :d that was with CO2 injection though. vals are monsters when they get going. they suck everything out of the w...

they almost look big enough to be sold now! i'd sell them around 1.5" or slightly less.

yea thats a shame. i cant really lower heat because of L260. its not the best environment for BN plecos either but they have been doing ok. my remaining neons are doing well. we will see if the temps will affect their life span. they are active for now. the cardinal is fine too. i am hoping diamond ...

nice tank!
Those platys are gigantically fat! are you sure they dont have bloat? have you lost any yet?

I thought the fanning of the fins is breeding behavior?

what, 0 nitrates hardly be possible? whenever you run a heavily planted tank such as iwagumi or any dutch style, and you dose correctly you will have 0 nitrate. just don't overstock the fish.

you end up having a very nice planted tank with extremely clean water.

why do vertical spawning setups? it traps dirt at the bottom and is a bit unhygienic for the eggs. in a horizontal setup the male can sweep any waste out easily.

sell on Aquabid if you know you can safely ship him to the buyer. if not then find a local aquarium club and see if anyone wants him. if not then see if a near by local fish store will take him off your hands.

because my neons are huge, probably the jumbo variety (1.5"-2" in size) and the angel never chases them. before i lost a neon i'd always see sores on it's body and to my understanding it's neon tetra disease. nothing i did helped the neons. so far i have two neons that are holding on, and ...

yea if its several years, i agree it should be a female. looks like a female to me

lymph viral infections do indeed look like this. i think thats what the plecos in this thread have. http://www.plecoplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2930 there is no known cure from what i've gathered. and it is pleco specific. different viral strains which explains why all lymphocystis cases do no...

this is not a common bristlenose, that's all i can say haha. does help much i know...

from Original Poster:

"I am doing water changes once a week. in one week the TDS rises 10-15ppm. is this a rapid change in water parameters, or is everything OK?"

yea just keep up the water changes and be patient. eventually it will clear up and fish will stop dying and your tank should finish cycling.

that could actually be a female, but we'll have to wait and see. give a few months to a year and see if more bristles grow and if it slims out. females tend to stay fat and wide males slim out a lot. also males will start to grow bristles on the upper surface of the face/forehead too.

your tank is still cycling. murky water is a bacterial bloom in the water. normal for cycling tanks.
get a test kit and tell us the water levels for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate.

i heard from Barbie that Repashy spawn and grow is one of the better foods for hypan plecos. i was thinking of getting it.

currently my L260 take Kens' Earthworm Sticks, Catfish pellets, and meat+spirulina wafers. they also love Omega One shrimp pellets.

idk for sure but they should be the spine-shaped outgrowths on the plecos' plates. so they appear as long hairs on the fin rays and body. they are probably tough and sharp.

thanks! I love corydoras too and would have a whole school of sterbai or pandas but i am afraid they would starve out my L260 plecos, so i decided not to get cories. i am only keeping this little pygmy cory because he isn't going to steal much food

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thanks for the kind words. i often feel the same as you when someone has a loss. words and cliche' sayings can seem too common but they're better than nothing. so thanks a bunch! I find it tough to put sympathies into words too. I raised this guy from fry. he has been in my care for a very long time...

I lost my male albino BN pleco today to bloat. treated him in quarantine for a week with no avail. i must have been too late to treat. cory is still alive and well and is constantly schooling with my neons and cardinal tetra. all other fish are well. i will need to get a male albino plec from somewh...

no, no pooping. sad news He was essentially immobilized by pain this morning, plus he got stuck his tail to the filter intake overnight and wasn't able to swim. he has blown up so much that i just could no longer stand by as he suffered so i had to euthanize him today. i was even planning on feeding...

yeah that's almost full grow for in captivity. i hear they grow to 4.5" and more in the wild though!

ok then OP should do what you said. I am interested in seeing posted photos of it too Maybe I can help as well.

yeah i increased salt to 1 tablespoon per 10 gals. used more than recommended meds (about 1.5 times more) and raised temps past 84F.
it's all or nothing now.
still alive.

how big is he? also don't shine light on them, their eyes are very light sensitive, and i have read that they will not breed if you keep shining lights when the male is caving. i used to shine mine with a flashlight just to make sure they were alive and there. but i don't do that anymore and they ha...

sounds like bloat to me. if its a female it could be because of egg binding or w/e. When i see bloat I try to treat it. i really don't want to lose my BN plec, especially since i am fond of him and i promised someone that nothing bad would happen to him. i was so confident that i sold off two possib...