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First question is why do you need to lower pH? Then its what are the start:finish parameters you wish to achieve, notably the tap, tank and desired levels. I find may people overestimate the importance of ph compared to the hardness of the water, a factor not helped by false assumption that it will ...

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UPDATE: Only 18 days after the first spawn, they've done it again - Better mark it on the calendar and check again in 18 days...and 18 after that...and 18....well you get the idea :d I do love my girl but there no way she's ever having a mate...it might tip me into Looney Tunes Land 8-} I've alread...

Thanks for the reply Jools. Hopefully you can see I haven't just based my conclusions on a 'Wikipedia says...' type set of references but scoured long and hard for multiple unrelated documents to back up my case hopefully covering both local, importer, respected and scientific based evidence (there ...

Apologies first but I shall just cut & paste from another elsewhere so I reserve the right to revisit and clarify if required (if it can't be done later). So here goes... Here's a spanner in the works... Virtually every reference says P.brevis = L205 = LDA078 as clearly stated on: Planetcatfish,...

Here's a spanner in the works... Virtually every reference says P.brevis = L205 = LDA078 as clearly stated on: http://www.planetcatfish, Scotcat, Wikipedia, fnzas, planetacuario etc etc etc.... And then I found this...http://www.loricariidae.no/loricariidae.no/_Peckoltia_sp_L205.html L205 is often c...

Note there are also reports from a local with Peckoltia species even further upstream from the Rio Hullaga (not just a vague 30year old reference but a web ref with pix!)

http://www.plecoworld.org/modules.php?n ... opic&t=946

There are records from the Itaya River adjacent to Iquitos, Would that be the same Rio Itaya that barely shows up on either Google or Bing maps as a separate entity? The very same one that is fed by the Rio Maranon, and is barely 50km downstream of the intersection of the Rio Ucayli. But of course ...

Go and check the revision of the group by Armbruster (2008), And again you don't bother to provide an actual searchable online reference. Why should I bother? Well I will add one that clearly emonstrates all rivers are not equal http://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2014/794583/ Whilst the temps are...

So suddenly it is possible to have river systems in the Amazon basin that are at different temperatures, and now try extending the principle to the systems that lead to this point. The fact that the Mid-Lower Amazon river is a fairly constant 29c is something I have not contested, indeed I have esse...

The ' Meeting of the Rivers' as it's name implies is Two rivers joining at different temperatures and parameters, one measurably cooler than the other. I would have hoped you understood that without me having to state it, however you still seem to be insisting all SA rivers that ultimately lead to ...

So this is my question, if my current stock can withstand a warmer tank, what would be a good temperature to allow a broader selection of pleco? And... What pleco would you recommend? I would rather it not make a three course meal out of my planted tank either. My tank has a circulation fan under a...

To explain why I am getting grumpy, your post above is actually trying to convince me that the water temperature of a place that I live right next to, and have literally been to and swum in many times, is fully 10C colder than it actually is. The ' Meeting of the Rivers' as it's name implies is Two...

May sound obvious but have you tried searching by size? Also worth ensuring you refine it as Loricariidae only, and maybe order by number of keepers to weed out the many zeros that indicate species you are unlikely to be able to source anyway. ...and then just trawl through the pix until you spot wh...

Whilst all the above is a very interesting discussion with many valid points, I feel sorry for the OP who just asked for suggestions for a cooler-water pleco! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Well I tried to say Peckoltia brevis but apparently my own personal experience over the last couple of ye...

It is perfectly feasible that the temperature is very different in sections of such a long and varied drainage system. No, not really. The lowland Amazon region has a pretty homogeneous climate. The air temperature rarely drops below 24C. L205 can be found well outside the region as shown in the ma...

...1 confirmed male (with odontodes I presume) and 2 'suspect females'... Could it be you actually have multiple males? I have a pair of L205 (confirmed m+f, but no mating yet, probably waiting for warmer weather) and have not seen any aggression whatsoever even tho they are relatively tightly packe...

That website you linked to says the Rio Negro is 22C, which is very incorrect. It's more like 32C, but that could have been a simple typo. It's correct that the Amazon River is about 28C. This is the same for other similar rivers I have been to, such as the Rio Madeira and the Rio Japurá, so why wo...

I see no reason to boil the fish for a couple of months It's not "boiling" them, it's keeping them at the temperature at which they are found in the wild. They will be out of condition and malnourished after import, so the metabolic rate needs to get back to normal so they can start eatin...

79f too cold for Peckoltia? I think that after they have settled down, the temperature could be reduced slightly, but if I were trying to acclimate them to a new tank after the stress of importation and retail, I would keep it at about 29C, at least for the first couple of months. 22C is a temperat...

Unfortunately your water is too cold for most "fancy" pleco species such as Hypancistrus , Peckoltia , Hemiancistrus etc. Try a Common Bristlenose Catfish instead. There are many colour and fin morphs available to suit all tastes. 79f too cold for Peckoltia? I have L205 Peckoltia brevis a...

Whole tank red lighting does not seem to illicit the same response as a point source light a small torch and the fish can be seen to emerge from their caves and move and feed quite readily (so its a pity I blew the transformer and am now back to only white/blue options) And I would be very surprise...

My Peckoltia also react to red light, albeit much less so than even dim white light. I have also ruled out that they are reacting simply to my own movements or others outside the tank. I find they don't necessarily immediately run and hide, however, they definitely move away from the source of the l...

Unfortunately the majority of the shops have even less chance of knowing their fishes origin than they have of labeling them correctly, in fact if you can get the name of their wholesaler then you've probably had to bride or brainwash them

I too would initially say Trilineatus, however the angle is very low and without seeing the top of the head at roughly the area nose to eyes then its impossible to say with certainty.

Isn't the egg eating information a bit of a myth? Apparently not, although wether its likely to be more than opportunistic is possibly still open to debate as it seems very restrictive. "Friel (1992) presents evidence for oophagy within Amaralia based on examination of the stomach contents of ...

I've been lucky enough to have kept both Julii and Trilineatus and they are a devil to separate at times. Unfortunately Julii aren't quite 100% spots with Tris being 100% reticulated - natures not that kind with cory id - but its pretty much a dead cert if the spots combine to form more than a mere ...

There no reason red can't reach 100m+, Beer's Law might have an issue with that. Maybe I am misunderstanding the point you are trying to make. I think you are trying to say that fish can see red light. Which some fish definitely have the biological ability to see. However, having the ability to see...

EdWHPT4 wrote:Is it the year of the Goat or the year of the Sheep? I'm an earth snake.

Both...and more as they also have month/day/hour animals!

Confucius (551-479BCE) said "I'm confused by the whole thing!"