Put zuchinni in a cave (half coconut shell) that only the pleco can get in to and the hole is too small for the cichlids.

Can you post info such as: water temp, pH, hardness? etc? See http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... f=5&t=4305
I've had issues with losing hyphans in bare bottom tanks. Maybe some substrate would help?

In a post from 2011, Apistomaster advised against beef heart for bloat (see below). Some hyphans are great tanks for discus since they will do well in warm water, but will succumb to bloat if they eat too much beef heart which is fed for the discus. http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f...

My guess is heater burn.

Leporacanthicus can be pretty destructive. They are known for eating silicone out of aquariums and tearing apart driftwood. Their fang like teeth are adapted for digging into wood to pull out insects which they eat. They will prey on shrimp and small fish that they can catch. They also aren't white...

My understanding is to raise it like a L260, Queen Arabesque Pleco; the advantage is L411 supposedly easier to breed than a Queen.

Is there some "cave" for the L14? Once it takes up residence there, you can "hand feed" it wafers/pellets, and hopefully the convicts can't get in to the cave to steal food.

PC thread on CatCon2016:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =2&t=42743

I The key, as mentioned is they need to be close to being ready to spawn. One thing many folks may not account for is the fact that in a spawning group both the males and the females have a pecking order. Only the top females get to spawn, not the subbordinent ones. By this stage it becomes clear t...

Ooops. My mistake (I thought L273 were also Typhoons). Don't see one on Aquabid. Wetspot nor Batfish Aquatics doesn't seem to have some (though maybe if you contact them, they can try to find one for you). Maybe one of the vendors or participants of the October catfish convention may have a lead? ht...

Yes these are nice when they are young, but I think the coloration gets more muddy as adults. L114/600 are similar, and the coloration stays when they become adults (and are cheaper). Otherwise, aquabid: http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwcatfishp&1456707915 http://www.aquabid....

Maybe you might meet someone with L236 at the 2016 (Oct) CatCon?
http://catfishcon.com/

I had the pleasure of meeting TTA there in 2014 (sorry to hear about your heater failure).

Aquabid lists various US internet retailers, size of fish and price of fish:

http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/ ... &&&&pb=150

A great advantage is you can add medicine to it and the fish will eat it and the meds.

There are a lot of causes of this wasting. The biggest one is that all gold nuggets are wild caught. They are often treated with antibiotics in the shipping and transferring process. This can wipe out their beneficial gut flora of bacteria that they need to digest food. The result is that they eat,...

My recollection from other posts (do a search) is that mussels are ok occasionally. It seems that these can succumb to bloat from eating too much meaty foods (or at least market shrimp, which I think the posts mention). So as long as these are getting lots of veggies and variety in their diet, these...

If you don't have room for another tank or container (external) in your "fish room" is an "in-tank refugia"/fry keeper (internal) another option?

pleconut wrote:Now you've named one Waldo you will have to now think up names for them all maybe start a thread can- anyone think of names for 5 plecos- if you have trouble choosing names for them all.

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NLS pellets are good, especially those with garlic in it to help maybe act as an appetite stimulant.

I had one. It was the only fish I lost after I moved (used a bucket rather than plastic bag). I was even using the new house water for water changes. Guess the stress was too much. Anyway, do a search on this forum. I think some people had issue with bloat, so even though it's "carnivorous,&quo...

Why not hatchet fish? Or some small rasbora or danio?
Paul Loiselle calls tetras "mini-pirhannas" that like to eat eggs and fry. Maybe you'll have a higher survival rate with other dithers?

On another thread, someone was trying to feed some fussy herbivore (sturisoma?); they had success with nori, or dried seaweed used for sushi. You may be able to find it at the supermarket.

Is it me, or does the first one look more L600ish based on the head patterning?

rob rensen wrote:
why red pepper ???

Red pepper high in caretenoids, and maybe enhances the red/orange colors in the fish?

Will you add the white zebra to your tank of zebras?

Do you have gravel or sand on the bottom of the aquarium?
How much driftwood? Do you have enough hiding places?

Posting for M. Barber, from Potomac Valley Aquarium Society Forum (http://www.pvas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8027): An extra slot just opened on the February 13-20 trip - this slot is open to anyone wanting to collect Killifish with a group from the UK. [​IMG] GWP Logo.jpg (9.95 KiB) Viewed ...

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None? What about a heater controller: Neo-Stat Heater Controler -- $115.95 This is the controller for a Neo-Therm heater. It has a place to plug in a normal heater, and a probe that goes into the water. Set the heater at maximum, and let this control the temperature. Alternatively, set your heater n...

These are supposedly tricky to breed, so I think most are wild collected. The males seem to be much easier to catch (as they roam and patrol their territory), so I'm not surprised folks are ID'ing these as males. I got 4 from someone who personally collected them in Peru; not surprisingly all males ...