Thanks Silurus again I think from the other day with the Humbugs

Cheers again

Hi .. Have been trying to help someone id a fish, my gut say's it's a gibbi but the out of water pic has thrown me a little.

Anyway if anyone can assist I would be grateful, it's driving me nuts now lol

Cheers

Silurus wrote:They are what you think they are.

Platydoras armatulus

Thanks and in that case even better as they sell for between £7 - £10 each so free is great. Good old Pets at Home, good sometimes

Hi, Been a while since I posted as all but got rid of all my tanks due to ill health. However I have managed to get a 2.5ft tank with hood (no working light) for £10 and have added a spare filter and heater I had .. so bargain :)

Anyway, whilst at my pets at home looking for some fish I was pointed ...

Richard - Yeah I can see what you mean about them scraping against each other and hence I am not overly worried as such. Just wanted to check whether it's something I should consider treating tbh.

seedfut - Not sure about the level of flow in the tank as such .. I have an external Fluval 205 filter ...

Hi guys

Just wanted to run this by you all regarding my Syno Multi / Grandiops. Took a video today while doing my daily maintenance, if you look right at the beginning of the video and then at the end (I zoom in on him) he has what looks like a "bald" spot on his head, from naked eye it seems ever ...

At the time I took that photo, that tank contained yellow labs, red and blue zebras, S. lucipinnis, and a few old Tropheus moorii (ikola). The blue fish are the cobalt blue form of plain old Pseudotropheus zebra (or whatever the genus name is these days)... probably from a breeder in Florida ...

Thanks Mats & Richard Something for me to look into a bit more. I do have these 2 new rocks that I need to add to the tank. I may go down the lava rock route to give the tank a aesthetic change.

Thanks Richard ... I can get lava rock, but not sure about tufa. TBH I have never actually heard of tufa rock??

I do prefer the lock of natural rocks, lava rock seems to have lots of very sharp edges.

Cheers

Scleropages - Cheers

I think your right about the 29G thing Appreciate the photo, gives me some ideas of what to aim for. Not sure I can see any Syno on that pic lol.

Are they yellow labs in the pic? Also what are the blue ones to the right of the central rock pile?

Many thanks again mate.

Scleropages Thanks for the reply.

I have moved the Rams into the 65G tank, they have settled and seem very happy in there tbh. Have added the 2 extra rocks, it's only a work in progress. You mention for 30G long, not sure this tank could be described as that.

Yes it's a 30G but it's more standard ...

I seem to have missed that reply, sorry.

Re the rocks, I guess your right, and I will be looking at adding some more very soon. I will also be looking at removing the rams before too long. Would they work well in my Amazonian Bio tank (once the gourami is moved from there) along with my tetra's and ...

Not a problem mate, enjoy your plec

Joe, nothing in my inbox here, did you pm me?

As for places to go, I find Baytree Garden Centre quite good but it's in Spalding so not sure if a bit too far for you. Another good one (but a bit of a journey) is Ferrybridge aquatics in Knottingly, West Yorks. Alternatively I have had lots of great ...

Hi,

Just wanted some input on my 30G redesigned Syno Multi / Grandiops tank

I took out a awful Barrel ornament and a dying plant (that I got to too late) Replaced it with 2 Anuabis plants attached to the Sumatran wood and a rock formation that hides the air stone.

The tank does have 3 Rams in it ...

Joe I notice your located in Lincolnshire, as am I .. where abouts? Maybe I can suggest a LFS to visit for certain species :)

A BN would be fine in your tank, but there are many other plecs suitable for 25 - 30G tanks. Equally if your close to me and want a BN plec, I might be able to help you out ...

Viktor - Yes from what I can see he along with the other 2 seem to be much more themselves. From looking at their stomachs they seem to be more flat and as I would expect them to be.

Cheers

Hey Grokefish

I think it has all been due to the changes they have faced recently. you can tell me "told you so" lots, I don't mind :(( ;)

Am observing the water quality every other day atm, I have moved them into the 30G on their own which also seems to have helped! I intend to keep them in there ...

An update -

Just to let you guys know, I have now changed (since Friday) 60% of the water, the temp I managed to drop to 24-25C On early hours Sat.

Within an hour of that happening 2 of the Jaguars started doing what they have always done, swim around my hand when food was added :) Not by any ...

Thanks Marc,

I have done 25% wc today so 25% of salt has been diluted, temp down from 30C to 28C (doing it over 2 days as 30C to 25-26C seems a bit too much).

What I wanted to point out, as can be seen in this video taken tonight that maybe of use to other Jaguar Catfish owners in the future ...

Wrasse, I fully understand your reply and thank you for it :)

Temperature, strong oxygenation and salt are 3 good weapons for treating and also your spot treatment apparently did some good, it helped the plec.
It may well be that with a good water change, things will settle and I hope they do for ...

Right .. hmmm

This is all getting a bit confusing now lol.

Viktor - I know what your saying here as I am not really sure why I now have salt in the tank. There has been no visible Ich / Velvet for the past week. I cannot help feeling this is little more than the Jaguars having a bad reaction to ...

Grokefish thanks for you reply :)

I just need to figure out when to start diluting the salt out of the tank and to put the temp back down.

Had it running at 30C and with salt 2 days now .. no improvement at all really, so will try and give it the week I think wrasse mentioned.

Anyhow, many thanks ...

Wrasse - Yeah your right the answers were there ... However confusion set in etc sorry.

I need to just remove the carbon, I have a half bucket with salt ready to go, so will be doing that this evening. Have increased the temp and added an additional air stone.

As for selling the plec, this was ...

Exactly my point Marc lol

Well I have done a 25% water change this evening while the lights were still on (just to lower the nitrates a little) and one of the Jaguars appeared from his cave .. went a bit nuts, bumped himself into a piece of wood, now he has a little white lump on his head .. oh ...

Thanks for the replies guys ...

I am pretty confused now (not hard to do at this point) Wrasse & grokefish your both saying different things, hence my confusion. I would be happy to do a big water change tonight and add salt (even raise the temperature) However are you both able to agree this at ...

Wrasse - Am pleased you think they look strong :)

I really do not want to treat with exit (which was for the plec and a few of the tetra) again tbh .. however I am keen on trying the salt idea (did not add it last time, only my cuckoo tank). Will these guys be ok given current state without food ...

Well here is a video, and maybe you will see why I am so concerned .. this is what they now do .. the one in the video just freezing, it's just so upsetting and not what I have seen these last few months!

Seeing them behave like this only leads me to fear the worst tbh. Would adding salt to the ...

Indeed Viktor and mine up until about 6 days ago would eat until I stopped feeding and regularly resembled ping pong balls with fins. Since the 3 day med this has ceased. Though I will say 2 of them did show some eating behaviour last night and the food certainly did vanish after a while.

Whether ...

Thanks wrasse

Did not continue treatment as the med stated 3 days only. Am not sure on the sex of the Jaguars but do know that I have not noticed any fighting /cuts/noises etc. In fact they seem to get on really well and happily intermingle from what I can see.

As for cross contamination .. I ...