How cool is that! I always shut my filtration and bubbler off when I feed my tanks.

Thx 4 the pix of your fish. I no longer care what kind of fish he is, i just wanted to update that he is still alive. I hope he lives a long time, i sure spent a lot to get him a large home, & he's part of the family. He's such a friendly guy. He grew at an ALARMING rate, from what i recall he g...

no pathogens, i was out of town & a large water change was done (without me) we have chloramine in our water as u know, AND clown loaches are sensitive to their water, mine was. there was too much water changed, done too fast and with not enough de-chloraminator, the loach didn't last til mornin...

I'm the original poster. Mr big fish is still going strong! I got him, around nov 2008. We just a few weeks ago had delivered,a 65 inch long acrylic tank built for him & Mrs Bigfish . he grew up with a clown loach, who died many years ago. After clown loach died, Mr Big fish wouldn't eat, & ...

why do you say or worse, is a hybrid bad?

does anyone have a pic of a true longirostris? i got one from petsmart (i know, hasn't everyone?), and his nose sure looks long to me. any pix i have seen of this fish do look like mine. I would think the S. Longirostris at the PetSmart by my house is the real thing. I keep reading on different foru...

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why do people spell pleco, like this!? "pl*co"

:wink: well i'm well beyond 15 years old, but i never was strong in anything technical. to me they are fish. though until my goldfish grew so large that they needed a large tank to themselves, i used to house my loaches and goldys together. they all got along quite well. i kept the tank at 72 degree...

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
thank you

I'm SORRY! i just don't understand, is a loach a catfish? what's the difference? I've read some stuff and I still don't understand
i need a person to explain it and not a scientific article. i'm afraid i'm just not smart enough to get it from what i've read thusfar!

thx!

my vaccuum has a big entrance hole, but the other hole for the muck to get to the tubing is so small i don't think most of it goes down the drain! i'm always thinking i'm just stirring it up and i dont want to "poop up" the water that my 6 little Panda Corys are in. any good suggestions fo...