I use sugar-size silica sand only: it is a requirent for several of my fish and to please my eyes. I would only recomend this. please stop using ugly and unsuitable gravel. We are in 2013, not in 1973! I wouldnt use quartz, I did when I started, and advise people not to use it.

Silica sand is apt ...

Mats that what I'm afraid... although I read some "reports" with a grain of salt.

Richard B, the tank is 1,70 m long. there is a change that I've males and females in brevifilis too, since one already has evidence of a bristlenose, while the others dont.

I've the regular Ancistrus cf. Cirrhosus (3 males and 1 female) in a tank and in another one I've Ancistrus brevifilis (3 juveniles), I plan to join them both in the same aquarium, but I'm afraid they can create hybrid offspring. But it seems that South American fish can be so distinct that they ...

Well. Common Ancistrus are some of the my favourite fish, and bought them in different occasions and different LFS with different suppliers.

Although in the picture, two of them (of the same supplier) have thicker, pointed and longer tentacules (tentacles), while the older ancistrus has very short ...

Sorry to use this topic, but the Eupterus thing is important. I've similar synodontis, which were said to me here, more than a year ago, these were hybrids. How long does it take for them to become similar to eupterus? mine were bough 3 years, 2 months since i bought them and still they look like ...

Will you try to breed them? why the profile says that breeding is unreported, they are probably bred by suppliers.

thanks, wrass!

if the music is a bit annoying I can change the music.

This is one of my tanks- the "Praia Redonda", the one in my bedroom. it has 1m in length.

video includes soundtrack for stuff not to get borring. the flying stuff is food: boiled cucumber, Zucchini and cory commercial fishfood. it is not algae :)
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some of the catfish in the video ...

Just happened to stop by Ancistrus ranunculus (L34). it seems pretty cool and alien with its snout tentacles. size: 129mm (5.1") SL nice size too.

Ancistrus ranunculus

very cool in deed.

Panaque nigrolineatus
rather common in local LFS, but an amazing fish, cant have itthough, but amazing ...

Please name, show pictures or links to loricariids you dont want.

the idea is to see the awesomeness of these animals, and give us ideas to put in our aquaria.

eheh. I also know where the fish is, because of its eyes and whiskers and also the tip of its tail!!!

but people that are unaware of the fish or its behavior will be certainly surprised.

my banjos just do that in the early morning (feed with lights on/sunlights) or if I put a nice pellet of food in front of them or when the lights are out at the evening. I used to have mine in gravel like that. But I now use silica sand, which is the best for them. They don't need to hide behind ...

thanks corybrummie2010!!!!

hello there :-b

I'm from Povoa de Varzim, it is a city (and a nation \:d/) in Northern Portugal. Maybe the reason why I love fish (and invertebrates), is because they have been always part of my everyday life. Despite my desire for a temperate saltwater aquarium, the diversity, easiness and ...

Thanks for all the replies people. It has been really handy! ^:)^

my older ancistrus cost me 5 euros, he was already large. She was bought very young, a year and a half ago, and cost me 3 euros. The other ancistrus bought them really small and costed about 6 euros each, but the store sold the ...

another stores was selling these guys as A. dolichopterus and another as A. temminckii . So are these stores cheating?

In fact, the male and the female despite looking different already bred twice.

It has always been an head-hake to ID my ancistrus...
On the left I have an almost black ancistrus, when she was young, she was full of dots like common juvenile Ancistrus, but now show looks pretty dark...

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her pics (she is on the left)
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6646 ...

it looks similar to the Niassa catfish too. Thanks.

What a pity. I still love them though.

I've bought One year and a half ago, despite that they are still rather small. not more than 12 cm. Big black dots, They were sol to me as Synodontis Lucipinnis, but it doesnt look like what I see on the net, mine dont have those dark fins. The LFS was also selling at the time Synodontis Valentiana ...