Altering Your Water's Chemistry Hardening Your Water (Raising GH and/or KH) The following measurements are approximate; use a test kit to verify you've achieved the intended results. Note that if your water is extremely soft to begin with (1 degree KH or less), you may get a drastic change in pH as...

The Ebo folks are good at communicating. They sent me a recent email with a link to the DHL site (they are handling the shipment). Boy, are there a lot of inspections, clearances and ways to delay things. My package is on the way but I have no idea where exactly it is nor when it will arrive. My fis...

Well I though I had posted last night in this thread. But I do not see it, so.. I bit the bullet and ordered from them. One kilo each of the Softgran Insect and Mussel. One kilo each of the Shrimp and Veggie Sticks. 75 gm of the Artemia SuperSoft Granules Total about 9 pounds US. This more than I ne...

Thanks Jools. But I do not in general use apps, so that is not a possibility. Plus I want nothing from Meta on my box. I also don't own a smart phone. If I cannot do it via Email or by voice on a phone, then I do not do it. I used the contact system on the Ebo site. That should work. I have been usi...

By way of a follow-up. About a month ago a fish friend who had over ordered Ebo from Germany sent me some of both the mussel and insect Softgran. My fish love it. I wanted to gut some on the Ebo site where they say it is $18 to ship under a kilo to the states. So I put 350gm each of the mussel and i...

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@dw1305 TY for posting this Darrel. Years ago I used to read the bacteria came into tanks from the air. I did not accept this as the normal route. I worked in Saudi Arabia int the late 1970s. I was there when it was 130F in the shade and you could not see your sweat because it evaporated as fast as ...

Here is what came home with me from CatCon. After the Xingu rock I got from Jools, this may be my favorite fish "keepsake.

I am far from expert on this and I will trust Eric's opinion over mine about 95% 0f the time. However, because Lpemb19 is so insistent that it is an organism, I wonder of it could possibly be one of the 100 species of Argulus?
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FA184

Wish you had been able to make it to CatCon, you would have loved it. Pleco fry almost always outshine parents when it comes to the look. It is more than just pure cuteness. Over the years I have lost a spawner and had to replace it with on of the offspring. According to Barbie, it takes at least 5 ...

Got home a few hours ago. I had a great time and so did most of the folks there as far as i could tell. I saw all of those crazy flying Scotsmen. I met Eric and Leandro Sousa who is likely the world's foremost expert on the fish of the Rio Xingo which is from where all of my plecos come. Catfish peo...

I did a very stupid thing. Years ago i received a box with 99 zebras in one big bag. Ultimately there were 3 DOAs with two fish dying soon after they vame out of the big bag into a bucket of clean water. So I fibured it was possible to ship like this. I bagged 38 L173s in a 19 inch wide 32 inch tall...

I have never nor do I plant ever to own a Hawaiian shirt. :)) Plus, after years of attending events I have learned that hotel food for these things is usually awful and inevitably cold when served. My practice in the past was when, as a vendor/sponsor, I got meal tickets which came with that, I told...

When I kept P. compta I feed them the same diet as my B&W Hypans. 1. Frozen--> blood worms, brine shrimp, brine ship gut loaded w/ spirulina, mysis shrimp, daphnia. Fry get cylops and rotifers plus daphnia. 2. Repashy--> Bottom Scratcher, Spawn & Grow and Igapo Explorer. I mix the B S and S&...

So, I could not wait until Friday the 7th to arrive, so I rebooked to come on Thursday. I have a lot of L173 offspring from my breeding group which originated from TR parents. I sold that breeding group and 15 of their kids with them. I have a whole lot of children left. (Sizes TL) In a 33L are abou...

The fish have been taken. Unless the member backs out they are gone.

The response has not been great

So, I am willing to expand the parameters and open the offer to all registered members of this site in good standing who joined on or before May 15 2022.

Also- I can only ship to the lower 48.

I am in. While PC T-shirts would be cool, I never wear T-shirts and do not own any. On the other hand my bro must have over 100 Grateful Dead and other band T-shirts. Of all the speakers for the Convention the one I most want to meets and be able to talk with is Leandro. All my plecos are Big bend f...

I just sent the communication to get onto the 3rd floor for room sales. Assuming there are still rooms left there I will be coming. If the third floor is all booked up, then I wish all a great time.

I have seen this behavior in at least one male pleco in every one of my breeding groups past and present. I am not sue if they go to sleep that way or if they suck to the tops of thecave and when they fall asleep they lose their grip and end up on the bottom on their back. Usually you can a see the ...

Thanks Eric- mY mistake. U have been online and doing posting and financial research since about 10 this morning and I think my vision is getting blurry. I meant it to be in the USA area. The event is a bit of a drive from the UK

This is my fish club which actually meets in Carmel, NY 10512. I will have a table at the event. If anybody wants RB line L23s or non-RB line 236 plus TR parented L173s via pre-sales you can contact me via the site PM system. I will be bringing some driftwood that is huge as well as smaller, plants ...

I have assassin snails which I got to eat snails (not in pleco breeder tanks). Early on I asked my friend Rachel of inverts by msjinkzd if assassins would eat eggs and she said not to risk it. So I never have. But I do keep them in grow tanks. However, I rarely move fry to grow tanks until they are ...

Since I am close to leaving the hobby and in the process of selling all of my fish, I hope to be there. If I am I should have a number of L173 (both from WC and TR parents) for sale. I may also bring 236s (RB line, non- RB line and RB super white line). Finally, I may even have some zebras. Fingers ...

Group B Solo Pics 2/3 fish: F1 173_4sale3bSIDE1b.jpg F1 173_4sale3bSIDE1a.jpg You can find these fish at this size for $325 - $350 online. But I am not asking for $1,950 - $2,100. I am asking for $1,475 delivered next day with the customary live arrival guarantee/ However, if you can pick up the fi...

This is a special offer limited to registered members of this site in good standing who joined on or before May 15 2022. In addition, you must have made at least one post not including one just to introduce yourself. (Due to restrictions on how many pics can be attached in a single post, this for sa...

Maybe https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/sp ... ies_id=905

Yann- Right now I am able to import zebras from Bellenz farm in Indonesia. They breed them. Does the above mean all international trade in certified tank raised zebras will be stopped? At this time to be able to receive them and for Bellenz to be able to send them they have to be accompanied by a ce...

I am one who prefers not to pull fry or a cave with dad and fry. However, there are exceptions to this. I get a lot of spawns and eventually I have to do a pull w/ dad so no more fry are being added to the total in the breeding tank. Also, in when one is working with a group which contains multiples...