Hi all,

Istanbul Aquarium Club (ISAK) has announced its second aquarium contest. Last year's contest was open only to local hobbyists, but this one is calling for all international contestants.

The deadline for application is May 19, 2006 and the categories are as follows:
1- Planted freshwater ...

I would.
However, the shipment would cost more than the t-shirt for me.

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*aDAPtations, I take it, my dear Watson?

I don't think that it's a typo. I don't know the meaning of that word either, but the content of the book has a part with the header
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Aptations, Exaptations and Adaptations in Macroevolutionary Studies
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It looks like a technical term (unknown ...

...Feel free to use this topic to express your feelings, offer condolences or whatever.


I found it very strange that nobody has expressed any feeling or offered condolences so far. I've always thought of aquarists as sensitive people about nature and life. Maybe it's being talked in another ...

I heard from a friend that his bristlenose pair spawned in a Tanganyikan tank. But I personally never advice to keep fish in a tank that's so remote from their natural habitat.

squid wrote:...
just checking if barebuttom will cause them to lose or injured their barbels?

Just regarding the barbels, a bare bottom is ok. However, with a bare bottom you take the risk of fungus at the underside of the cory in the long-run.

I'm not sure about the aim of this poll, but I certainly agree with Catinthehat!

Don't panic, Taratron! I can't see either.
(Or maybe I have to panic too!)

Thank you very much.

I couldn't find the JFB site through the search engines. May i have its address, please?

Coryman wrote:...C. trilineatus are one of a number of species that can actually poison themselves when being transported in a bag...

Hi Ian,

What are the other species that poison themselves in such a case?

Could it be just the shine of the operculum under light? (depending on the direction of the light and the position of the fish, the left side in your case)
I hope it is.

julibob wrote:...I HAVE NEWS! MY OTO HAS MADE A MIRACULOUS RECOVERY!!!! His belly is back to normal and swimming and eating like nothing ever happened! ...

Glad to hear that...

What are the other fish in the tank? Is it possible that there was a dead fish (probably a big fish) hidden somewhere in the tank? That would be a primary source of high nitrate, if you have an efficient biological filter.

My advice would be making another partial water change immediately before other fish are affected too. 80 ppm nitrate is simply too high.

Hi,

The one in the picture is just a sample of Trilineatus. They may have very varying patterns, even those spotted ones.

You can keep a few Otocinclus species too.

In my opinion, it can still be a C. trilineatus. The stripes on the caudal fin make me think so.

Sometimes I see that too. I have thought that it happens whenever the left frame is being updated.

LFS said that they come from farms in the Far East (Singapore). Would this help for the identification? (surely not if both L. pardalis and G. gibbiceps are being bred there).

Thank you very much for this quick reply .

This fish might have been asked before, because I couldn't search all the posts about plecos. In my country, it is sold under the name 'leopard pleco'. May I have the scientific name of this fish? Thanks in advance.

Thank you all for the ID confirmations.
And yes, Jorge. The sterbas are juveniles (there are actually 5 of them).

I have kept C. paleatus with goldfish for a long time. There have never been a problem at all, but just for once! And that was a real nightmare.

I had added two juvenile paleatus to the tank just to increase the number of them. One of my goldfish, which was about 8-9 cm without the tail, must have ...

Although I have some estimations about the cories that I have bought recently, I need to be sure about their ID, so I wanted to have your opinion about them. Any suggestion about these 4 cories would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

1- LFS said these were wild caught. I think they are C ...

...thank's, hopefully when my co2 is kicking in and i put in my new t5 light on the left side ill get some more plants on both sides and the tank will be even nicer...

In my opinion, CO2 injection is only necessary in heavily planted tanks. Even with some more plants added to this tank, that ...

Hello all,

I've known that the Corydoras species don't like the medication so much, but they are especially sensitive against the malachite green and salt . On the other hand, I've seen in some of the previous posts of this forum that some hobbyists use and advice them. Have I known these wrong so ...

Sand or gravel: I use ALL bare bottom tanks, and do fairly well. If there's a benefit to sand or gravel on the bottom...I'm not aware of it.

A bare bottom is definitely the best if the cleaning is concerned. However, I prefer the bare bottom only in quarantine and/or breeding tanks. In other ...

My first catfish were two juvenile Corydoras aeneus (bronz). When they matured, they formed a perfect couple. Later on, the male died. The female is still with me.

Caol_ila wrote:...Dunno how many fish were in there but...

I have read somewhere that there were 2500 fish in that tank.