Many thanks, Jools and Eric. I really appreciate having the benefit of your experience.

Howdy PC members. I wonder if anyone with experience could tell me what temperature ranges you've kept Microsynodontis at; any other tips you have are welcome. Purchased a couple of these recently... Real nice, couple inches long at most at the moment. Couldn't tell you what species but they def app...

hdayin, thanks for posting... I sent you a PM.

Hey Phoenix - are these still available? I'd love to come see em; I'm about an hour away from Troy NY.

It's working! No ads visible - that is a wonderful feature, Jools. Very thoughtful, and an excellent perk for anybody who makes a donation. This oughta encourage others to donate too.

Hey Jools... I have made a couple donations in the past, but I'm still seeing the google ads.

[quote]...my experience (and if you read this whole thread, you learned this) is that I'm a relatively bad plant keeper because my tanks mostly have high current and low low light. So for me, the model doesn't work as well. I love your emergent plants in your tank. How are you supporting them in the...

I plan to try a deep substrate as an experiment in a tank that I'll be setting up soon. I'd seen that video by Aquarium Coop on Ocean Aquarium in San Francisco, and found it fascinating. Maybe a bit off-topic, but I have always used plants to control nitrogen... all of my tanks have live plants, and...

These fish which I now believe are Megalechis thoracata are doing fine, with nice long barbels and very good overall health.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/sp ... cies_id=14

No sign of breeding yet, which I am hoping for at some point.

Thanks again for the help.

Best wishes,

Chris

When I first saw this fish in the LFS, he was backed tail-first into a large snail shell - a very small amount of his head showing - pretty cool behavior, so ditto the advise on hiding places. In my limited experience, this fish likes to dig, so give it something to dig under. I had made the one tha...

Silurus,

Thank you for your reply - I will maintain high water quality and monitor the fish - he looks a bit better today, I believe.

Best wishes

C Windram

You can check out a couple of posts I made about this species some time ago: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9688&highlight= http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9682&highlight= I had this fish for a while, then took him back to the store. I now wish I had ma...

Greetings Catfishionados, My thanks to you all, as I have received excellent advice and no small measure of education in the past from these forums. Today I have another question: I have recently obtained a group of 4 beautiful Hoplosternum or Lepthoplosternum species - somewhat similar in appearanc...

Dear cory keepers,

I have recently obtained a beautiful c. sodalis...anyone know what the proper temperature range is for this fish?

Many thanks,

Chris Windram

Just wanted to post and say that everything is fine now in the 20 gal tank...Cory fins are 100% healed. I miss the troll (Pseudopimelodus bufonis), but perhaps this will be some incentive to do a species tank in the not too distant future.

Best wishes,

Chris Windram

Just wanted to post and say that everything is fine now in the 20 gal tank...Cory fins are 100% healed. I miss the troll (Pseudopimelodus bufonis), but perhaps this will be some incentive to do a species tank in the not too distant future. <a href="www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/pseudopi/ pseudo...

Howdy Planet Catfish, I don't know if this is the place for this or not, but I saw what may have been a bogus post (russian brides / russian dating) made as a reply to a post that I made earlier in the Speak Easy forum: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9681 Best wishes, Chris Windram

Saradora, Here in Massachusetts where I live we have a municipal water company that sometimes adds an excess of chlorine to the water depending on time of year, etc. The water comes from a small reservoir in the hills which has good fish habitat, but there is algae growth in reservoir, so the water ...

An affordable alternative to peat granules sold at the LFS is Sphagnum Moss (not the "fossil" peat which is typically found at garden stores)...you can check this out at <a href="http://www.mosserlee.com/whatis.html">www.mo sserlee.com</a>. I've been using this to soften water an...

Myra, I have Otocinclus cats in both my tanks, and they do help quite a bit with algae on glass, plants, rocks, and other surfaces. I recently got 5 new Otocinclus and placed them in my 20 Gal (which had some light algae growth on the glass, etc.)...within two days they had cleaned the tank spotless...