what do you mean still waiting?

i sent them ages ago...........
i just thought that you hadn't put them up

i stated a post like this on plecofanatics.com but my idea was to have dwarf chain loach eat my snails. i never (well at least not yet) got an answer to wether or not DCL would eat them or leave them be. so do anyone here know?

(oh god aint me good at english)

well i got them, at 6:15pm yesterday after work

6 @ $22 each

they moved in and overnight i have already noticed a big drop in the amount of algae

and so far no cichlid attacks

yes, just like that time you got rid of wilson (a.k.a. ow my knee poped out, amanda van stone ate my baby, etc, etc)

such good times

but i think he is back again

i have had both bristle nose and common plecs in there rescently to clean up the algae a bit, but i have moved them to other tanks since. the B.B. didn't do anything to those plecos but now that they are larger i thought that they might try

thank you silurus,

thats 1 and 3 done

can anyone help with 2 and 4

with the new availability of these fish in Australia, i would like to try some in my 3 foot mixed cichlid tank(ooh, that sounds horrible)

it is an ex-malawi reef tank so it has a lot of feeding space in the form of rock faces

parameters are:
PH; 6.8-7.2
temp;24-28
ammonia; 0
NO2;0
NO3;0

water ...

all of the ones around here seem to max out around 17cm

sorry i never got around to it

i couldn't do them these holidays because a leaf-toed geco crawled into the tower-thing and combusted, destroying the computer, but its fixed now so i can start them for you

i wish that i could get some

for under $600

like the sand substrate - very clean

its a P. pardalis

the lichens came in off a piece of wood that i was growing tillandsias on.

the lichen out compeated the algae on that piece of wood and then started to spread onto the near by coconut shell and log.

but now the common plec has done a good job of eating it and there is very little left

obviously yes, why else would i ask what would eat them in an established aquarium

i will use a common plec then

thanks

they are about$500

i wanted to know if either common plec or ancistris are able of eating lichens

i was thinking of using a common plec or a ancistris

Panaque or former cochliodon

yeah i sort on knew that but i don't have the $500 to by one

i have them growing in one of my tanks (with tons of algae)and i want to know if a plec would safely eat them. would it just be more fibre in its diet?
would there be any side effects?

thanks for any/all help

love the 6 footer

well here it is some one who is breeding them localy.

all i know is that they bought their pair for (at least) $250 and then sold the young cheaply to try to bring down the price

if i find out who it is i will tell you

yoyo's, botia sidthimunki and botia hymenophysa will be available for legal import as of september 7th thish year, so dont rule them out yet!

there are also other loaches out there like: botia dario, botia beauforti, botia morleti, botia lecontei and rarely botia modesta

i've herd of other loaces ...

our long fin albino's are usually $80 for 3cm juviniles

I didn't know that you could get long fin pepermints

pepermint's and albino's are already here and are in good supply

they occasionaly come up quite cheap to

synodontis nigriventris

Noting to be worried about yet since it is not yet acclimatised to its new surounds.

After a month or two it will start to feed on vegtables

untill then just add more live plats and it will graze off their leaves

10 neon tetras
Pair of Rams
Pair of Apistos,

3 leopard danios

= pictus food

i was born into an aquarium family - no chance of escape

which is sad because everyone around here who is into aquaria knows me (or at least think they do)

I herd somting interesting yesterday.....

ancistrus sp. are found in Ross river (Townsville), the Burdekin river system (north Queensland)and in a couple of little creeks around populated areas.

i got rid of it

but now i can't get my old one back

most probably ancistris sp.3