I do not expect that the lack of wood in its past diet will cause a problem as long as you are simultaneously offering a diversity of foods, some wood and some easier-to-digest foods. The only real problem I could envision, and this is not a guarantee that it would happen, is that if the animal had ...

It took my mustard spots a few tries to learn this, but mine really like to eat the raw sweet potato.

Stating the obvious, but your photos are a little blurry. Is the mouth right for Panaqolus? Is it ? The off color may be stress.

I agree with Daniel, .

Hi Kangacory,
Welcome to you too! And good luck with your new tank.

Cheers, Eric

Hi wesa.benoy,

Welcome to Planet Catfish. To answer your question, we'll need some pictures of your fish.

Cheers, Eric

What I'm about to say is not based on experience but on classroom/textbook info: I was under the impression that gases like O2 and CO2 we're not osmotically active and thus wouldn't be affected in RO systems. That said I do know that distilled water systems will degas the water during the boiling st...

Okay, so I came home today and found a small clump of fresh cory eggs in my community tank. Probably aeneus, but could be trilineatus, C141, or ambiacus (the latter would be a first for me, so not likely). Anyway I picked out 40 eggs and divided them evenly into two plastic containers in 1.5 cm dept...

Thinking of why you got chewed out for trying to redirect the customer, and the notion you mention that your store knows it needs to make big changes, then maybe what both your boss and you would benefit from is a really good "sit down" together, to discuss where the boss wants to take the...

Tough decision. Best wishes.

(I was going to write, "You go, Girl!" and then I thought better about it.)

Teresa, what's ironic about your advice is that in my area, bristlenoses are as expensive or more expensive than common plecos (pardalis and gibbiceps). A 6 inch common pleco can sell for $15-20, and a 4-5 inch adult (sexable) BN will be over $20 in many local stores (most of my LFS don't carry adul...

Patience, patience, patience.

Narwhal72 wrote:I will shoot some tonight but I am a terrible photographer.

Aw, come on. Didn't anyone teach you to blame the camera for bad photos?

To both of you, thanks for the support and compliments, although I feel like the fish have really done all the work. :YMAPPLAUSE: Yes I am happy with them, and now I'm waiting for my other fish ( P. albomaculatus , H. guahiborum , and some corys) to get busy and start reproducing too. After a recent...

Hi Teresa, Sorry to learn that you're having such a negative experience. While I'm curious to know what exactly are the bad practices of the store, frankly I don't need to know and it's probably just as well that you keep those kinds of details private, out of respect for the business (even if the b...

Hi Chris,

Welcome to PlanetCatfish!

Cheers, Eric

Andy, can you get some photos of these snub nosed sp. Atabapo?

Thanks, Eric

I believe, and I'd like to expect, that it's the number of completed fields that determines points, not the length of the narrative answers or the number of food items beyond "one." If it was by length of answers, Heck, given that I'm so long-winded on the narrative answers, I should have ...

So here's a step-by-step description of the odd behavior mentioned previously (here: Bug(s) in the BLOG outputs and here: Re: Adding A Second Spawning Report ): Using my BLOG for Panaqolus maccus as an example, I started with 57 points and I had four foods listed as follows: Wood (dry / prepared) da...

No rush.

I didn't check anything else, but the image upload worked ! Thanks Jools.

Eric

UPDATE: The oldest babies reached 6 months old this week, so I tore their tank apart and collected them all for a nice photo shoot. Of all the fry, between 30 and 40 have survived to this age (I had almost 50 back in November); not great survival in the parent tank, but not bad. The oldest and large...

Hi Jools, I'm sorry to tell you this right after you fixed up the BLOG pages, but I was updating my BLOG for Panaqolus maccus tonight and I found a few problems - one a coding problem, one with images, and one simply a word substitution: Coding problem: When I click on the "Edit" button fo...

TwoTankAmin wrote:Unfortunately, I have no place to raise the fry, so I am not pulling the eggs.

Wish I was nearby. I don't yet keep sterbai, so I'd be happy to pull the eggs and raise them!

Cheers, Eric

It's not one of these?

Cheers, Eric

P.S., I see you're a new member. Welcome to PlanetCatfish!

Hi Teresa, If you're dealing with repeated rounds of increased aggression between tank mates, while you're trying to condition them to spawn, it would seem to me that rearranging their tank too often might only cause too much stress. I would think that you should either accept the aggression if it i...

Very interesting. And nice that you have so many species spawning at the same time.

Cheers, Eric

Does anybody feed banana peel to their plecos? I ran a forum search and only found banana peels mentioned for worm colonies.

Thanks, Eric

I'm still waiting for my male, whom I bought with bristles already developed and whom I've had for almost exactly a year now, to develop bifurcate (spit) bristles. He's fathered multiple times, but still has only bristles formed as single strands.

Richard B wrote:The image is not showing?

Richard, maybe it's your computer. For me the image displays just fine. Here it is, now uploaded to the thread: Cheers, Eric