This sounds very familiar to what happened to my tank. I got infected with callimanus worms. After a lot of searching and a few failed treatments I found a treatment called Chanaverm. This is for pigeons but is also used to treat these worms. The treatment is nearly as bad as the worms though. If it...

Cheers Matt. I saw it on some courgette last night. The shop I got/ rescued it from had it in a bare tank. So I doubt it's been getting any wood. The pic is worse than it looks in real life. But I'll keep a eye on it and make sure there is plenty of veg in the tank with the stacks of wood

Thanks in advance for any help

I brought this royal today to replace the one i lost a few months ago when my tank wiped out.

Hi All I am planning to build a group of L204 in a few weeks. I have one already but I cant decide on the sex. im leaning towards female but not sure. not sure the pics are up to it but im having a few issues with my tank at the moment so dont want to stress it out any more by removing from the tank...

My luck goes from bad to worse. Seems I now have callimanus worms in the tank. These must have been there for a while as I have not added any new fish for over a month. Iv managed to source treatment for these just waiting for it to arrive. The treatment is almost as bad as the worms though so I thi...

Well iv got my HMA filter set up and started doing some water changes.
No more loses for over a week now and all looks good.
Going to give it another week before I slowly start restocking

Cheers darrel
Thanks for the info.
On a plus side no more losses now so hopefully in a while I can start restocking.

I may just go for the HMA option. Can't decide yet.

Cool may look into setting up a collection tank then

Did think about rain water but I was recommend not to.
Do you just test it and put it straight in the tank

That could be the reason. I always try to make sure I turn the gravel over completely once a week though and iv had no spikes in and readings. I plan to have multiple tanks set up In the near future so I think I'll give HMA a go and see how I get in from there. Hopefully I can prevent this from happ...

Hi guys Thank you for all your responses. It was my wedding yesterday hence no responses. Iv come back today to no more losses. Which makes me think poisoning from some thing the water company has put in the water. In regards to substrate there is about 2 inches oh small gravel I vacumme the tank tw...

It's been over a month since iv added any new fish.
I'm confused about the oxygen as well not sure how i can get any more agitation.
I don't have a O2 test kit so can really check it at the moment.

That's the only thing I can think of as well Is there any way of stopping this happening again. I can't really get any more agitation of the surface water it would be like a set of rapids. I lost another catfish this morning. Really not happy. I'm not going to do another water change as I think that...

New era pleco pellets that I stuck in last night. My last four plecos are sat at the top of the tank behind the filter still. Really wiered. As there is plenty of air etc in the tank. My nanacaras and black widow tetras are still swimming around normally. With the exception of one black widow tetra ...

The temp is steady at 28 iv just done a large water change.
And stuck some carbon in my filter for a few days just in case.
And see what happens.
Gives me the chance to increase my panaques to a group may replace them with a group of l204s. Will be giving it some time before I do though

I did my usual check of the tank this morning. To find my group of l201s all dead for no apparent reason the male was sat on eggs. My remaining fish and last two remaining plecos. My bristlenoes are all hugging the filter so closely they are virtually in it. Iv tested my water all param are good and...

You can certainly take a very good photo.
But that is a lot of fish in one tank. U must do some serious maintenance to keep that stable.

Thanks rob. I currently have mine in aqua one 165 litre with a pair of bristlenoes and a few tetras. Iv got 2400 lhr filtration on that and a airstone. Running on the aquaone wet dry filter and a external canister filter. My l204 is about 10 cm and the l191 only about 5cm at the moment so got a few ...

Seriously jealous of your set ups rob. Iv got the panaque bug myself but only got room for the one L204 and l191. Hoping to set up a 3m tank myself in a few months. How many panaques do you keep in yours. I'd like to keep a group of 4-5 l204 and 2-3 l191 would this be two much in your opinion with p...

Depends on the lfs to be honest but 15 to 30 pounds tends to be going price for these

Have a male bn exactly the same he is currently on his sixth clutch of eggs.

Cheers for the link birger. Now that is one huge fish I'd love to see mine reach that size. I'd say iv got a few years though before my little 6cm chain saw reachs that size. Seems I was miss informed that l191 only grows to max 9 inches. At the moment he is in my forty gallon set up that is heavily...

I couldn't agree more awesome fish quite possibly one of my favourite cat fish

I was kinda hoping it was l191 as I know these don't grow quiet as big.
It didn't cost me any thing any way.

Thanks in advance

I aquired this Royal Panaque today i was told it was l027 but looking at it i think it is L191.
Can any one confirm this.
He needs fattening up a bit so hopefully i can keep him going. The photos are not great i will take some more once he has settled in

Looks awesome would love a set up like that