Thank you very much for your replys and your kind comments!!! :D I am glad you liked the story DutchFry :D Yeap,its very good when you see the fish you love paying you back with trust and maybe even love :) My Leporacanthicus is the best on that matter!!!! Thank you very much for your wish!They have...

I have successfully fed coconut to my Panaque L190 a couple of times in the past.He loved it to be exact :D I think it may be a good food as a treat for Panaque but it may be a bit too hard for young Ancistrus to notice a noticable amount missing...With my small Panaque L190,in 2 days,the coconut pi...

Very very interesting info!!! :D A great thread indeed... Owning a blue eye too and having bought him recently(2months ago...)and for quite a high price(2500euros :roll: ) i would like to ask you if you could take a look at mine too and tell me where you think he originates from...He is 27cm long,wi...

Its going fine drd :D Thanks a lot for caring!!! :) It has completely cleared from the spots and i did a precautionary treatment with Octozin for sleeping sickness a few weeks ago and he is a bit more energetic now too...(dont know if he did had sleeping sickness but because most fishes from the exp...

Hi Andrew! All the info we have on Panaque breeding comes from the smaller Panaque species...These,as most plecos do,spawn in caves with only one entrance and so i would suppose the big Panaque do the same...Of course,you can also put a two entrance wooden cave as even though they might not breed in...

:lol: taksan,i dont plan on chucking down live palms...I like them very much to do something like that :D I would only use dead ones...A few years back,two really tall(18-20meters...)Syagrus romanzoffiana died of old age but unfortunately back then,i wasnt imagining that i would be trying breeding b...

Great female you got there!!!! :D :wink: And i wish i could find such a good looking male as yours as mine seems to be a female too... And the cave is :shock: Of course i think its the smaller they would fit in... :) Just an idea though,if you can find a fallen tree trunk of a safe tree,you could ma...

Thank you very much for your reply Seedy :) I havent taken any photo of him yet...I had lots of work on the aquarium and great trouble with some new plecos i bought for the 2meter tank...Also i had a serious injury on my male Hemiancistrus subviridis that,too,got any interest i had on photographing ...

Hi! A day before i bought my Baryancistrus,i bought 4 L239 right from the import so that i could have the fish in a bucket and observe them very well to choose the best ones and know the sexes to get 1 male and 3 females or 2 males and 2 females...The fish were very shocked from the import and didnt...

Thank you very much for your replys Conrad,Haavard and Jim! :D You gave me some hope that it may heal well :) I really wish it will... Conrad, Yeah,its there,at the tip of the snout exactly...But mine has a deep sore there,did your fish had an indent there too?I have seen white patches on pleco snou...

My Aquaria rocks Jools!!!!
Thank you very much for adding it!!! Its a feature i had been reading about its addition some time now,from when the My Cats was added and was very much looking forward to its addition!

Doesnt work for me either...Whats the maximum allowed image size to use at the My Aquaria page?

Thank you very much in advance!

Hi! Yesterday i bought two 12cm Baryancistrus demantoides(male and female hopefully...)from a very recent import(in fact they came the day before yesterday and i was there on the import,choosing a nice L239 group :D )...Their fins are not in the best possible condition but it seems that they will fi...

Thank you very much all of you for your replys :) I am sorry for taking me so long to answer but when this thread was ''fresh'',i had wrote an extensive reply that took me an hour+ and it was lost when i hit submit...So as you can understand i was very tired to write it again then and i got into bus...

Thank you! :) I am not 100% sure on the sexes but i think i will have a pair then :D I imported my wood directly from south America with a help of a friend of mine who has a pet shop...The wood was collected in Equador's rainforest...They are mostly buttress tree roots and some branches... :) Try co...

According to the description,they arent but anyway till now no fish has been 100% positively ided as being P. suttoni...So we are left with P. cochliodon as the only sure blue eyed pleco...What i said before is that the ones pictured on the Catelog under the name P. suttoni,have different catching l...

As for the blue eye...I have no words to describe him,his is the heaviest bodied blue eye i have seen!!!! :D One word of caution though because of that and the fact that he is the one Pier had imported some time ago:If you look at him and the photos of most other blue eyes carefully,you will see the...

Great fish you got there Haavard :D I think the first and last ones are males and the middle one a female :) Looking at the older Baryancistrus you had again,i now think that the old 14cm fish is a female and the 11cm one is a male as you can see his pectorals are somewhat thickened towards their en...

Hi! I have noticed that the Catelog lists different tempratures as good for keeping different sp. of plecos that however share the same parts of Upper Orinoco...Lets take for example the Upper Orinoco fishes below and the tempratures listed on the Catelog: L239 23.0-26.0°C Baryancistrus demantoides ...

Thank you very much for your reply Mats!!! :D This study unfortunately also mentiones losses in tanks containing some epdm,i.e. with Epdm not sorrounding the shrimp as a liner but as a much smaller proportion...On the other hand Epdm O-rings are used in drinking water safe solenoid valves too... Any...

Hi! I went to a Greek fish store and while searching some baby L190s from Venezuella to see if there is one that looks like mine(i.e. with stripes running the length of the pectoral fins and not vertical on them...),i found one with the markings,color and tail shape and marking exactly the same as L...

Thank you very much Richard!!! :D I am glad you like it so much! A few days ago i went to buy a valve for the big sup pump's bypass...Unfortunately they didnt had in stock the usual ball valves with the blue handle but only the ones that are able to withstand chemicals and have an orange handle...Th...

Thank you very much all of you for your replys :D Thank you Mats for youn kind comments!!! :D Thanks racoll for your kind comments!!! :D Yes,i know they get smaller when kept in an aquarium most of the times,i was keeping it as a floating plant in my 1meter Panaque-Leporacanthicus tank and to be hon...

Last tuesday,i went by a fish shop in Greece and returned home with this box: http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t244/Kostas_G/DSC02261a.jpg http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t244/Kostas_G/DSC02263a.jpg Lets open it up and see what in!!! :razz: http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t244/Kostas_G/IMG_0...

Thank you very much for your kind comments Matt :D Much apprecciated!!! I dont know if i deserve them though... Will post a better picture of me for you :wink: By the way,I think its time to do an update :wink: Ok,so,i began cycling the tank the previous Saturday by putting some biological media fro...

I just managed to upload the latest shot too, so here they are!!! :D Enjoy the filling!!! :razz: And the filling starts... http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t244/Kostas_G/DSC02232a.jpg http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t244/Kostas_G/DSC02233a.jpg The sand is slowly added... http://i162.photobucket...

Thank you very much for your kind comments! :) I am glad you like it!!! :D SOBERKITTY, Caves like these take lots of time and effort to be made and so they are not marketable...If i was to make some to sell them,it wouldnt worth it for less than 100euros a piece...Except of course if i was to make o...

Thank you very much for your kind comments :D taksan, I am glad you like it!!! :D I decided to do something like that because this is my first and only big tank and wanted to make it as better and natural looking as i can... :) I hope the result to be worth it as you say... :roll: Thank you very muc...

Thank you very much for your reply drd
How long did you had him at that temprature?

Thank you very much for your interest Matt :D Good news,last night i finished the tank and on Saturday i am gonna fill it for the first time!!!!I will thoroughly wash it and siphon any little nasty that escaped the vaccuming i did yesterday and will also clean the woods...I will fill it and start al...