Just another thought here. Corys and plecos etc. are seasonal spawners. Folks often do not pay attention to the dry season part and only look at the rainy season factors. Seasonality means change, often substantial in temperature, conductivity/TDS, pH, current and food availability. In addition, the...

Under the its a small world after all heading- I have been using rooibos in tanks now for about a year. I will be selling it from my room at the All Aquarium Catfish Convention. I came to it on a site dedicated to wild angelfish. I was interested in altums which come from very acid, tea stained wate...

Kung- here is a nice vid of the Rio Atabapo which is very similar to the Negro and is not far from it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duvFEPwa ... Kg&index=7

There is a big difference between adding salt (NaCl) and Epsom to the water and how it effects conductivity/TDS. Epsom is magnesium, sulfate and oxygen- MgSO4 + 7H2O. Both of the first two can change the hardness of water significantly. Some fish will be fine with this while others will not be. This...

Dan is a good guy and he raises healthy fish. His only fault is he sell them too cheaply.I would be asking more if they were mine.

I never did anything to get mine to spawn besides be patient. I got them because they looked neat. Turned out to be 2 males and fm. Got a few spawns from the alpha male and the fm and then he died. The 2nd males stepped in. I will say these are the hardest fish I have every tried to raise from scrat...

And where the heck is inland empire? How the heck do you think you will get any response to your request if your location is cryptic? Strike one. Next, a few years ago three different fish were all being called 201- today they are H. Inspector aka 102, H. contradens and 201. Which one did you really...

Well I have a problem with all this altruism assigned to the fishermen. I do not have first hand knowledge of collecting, so I could be totally wrong here, but let me explain what I think. Since I do keep zebras, I have more knowledge about them and they are ideal for an example. So, let us consider...

Shane- before I had those problems I was already dealing with back issues. I refused to even think about back surgery. So you for sure have my sympathy.

I will also say that I feel like a rank amateur heading into a hotel full of catfish pros.

If you search these forums a bit you will find this topic has probably been discussed to death. Mislocation is a common tactic employed by the collectors to keep their spots secret. There has yet to be any conclusive evidence that some of the so called rarer and harder to find b&w Hypancisrus ar...

In searching for something else I came upon this older thread i started and realized i had never answered Jools in asking what the question was. I would like to answer that. L-46 is an L number, H. zebra was since described as a valid species since it was given the L number. So It is opossible to sa...

Barbie- I am not getting out of it, I am resizing. I am decreasing the number of tanks and increasing the number of gallons. The goal obviously is fewer but bigger tanks. The result is I have a number of smaller tanks, filters and a host of hardware I no longer need or use. The goal is to be going f...

It is official. I just booked room for three nights- Thurs-Fri-Sat. I am planning to do room sales and will be happy to welcome you all to TwoTankAmin's Used Fish and Tank Bazar I am also happy to announce that 15% of the gross proceeds from all sales will be donated to Planet catfish to be used in ...

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33 gal long- 48x12x13 inches

2 AquaClear 200 GPH power filters and an air driven 30 ppi Poret foam.

There are about 6 or 7 mature or young adults. Some are from the original WC fish and the rest are F1s from then. There are now an unknown number (7-10) of offspring growing out.

What size tank are they in and are there other fish with them?

I am far from adept at sexing via "hoohoos," but it is the only way I know to be close to reliable. But to do it I have to remove the fish to a photo tank and get shots from below. I have found that having clean and cooler water in the photo tanks tends to help get the "hoohoo" o...

Here are the pics. Sorry, but I am a better fish keeper than photographer: http://twotankamin.smugmug.com/photos/i-x4WZCHh/0/M/i-x4WZCHh-M.jpg http://twotankamin.smugmug.com/photos/i-cXxCC6Z/0/M/i-cXxCC6Z-M.jpg http://twotankamin.smugmug.com/photos/i-MHxg4sp/0/M/i-MHxg4sp-M.jpg http://twotankamin.sm...

We all know that zebras have not been permitted to export from Brazil for a long time. Despite this, when the demand (and prices) shot up over the past 7 or so years, finding wild caught zebras for sale had also been increasingly easy. Recently I have seen almost no listings for wild imports. Since ...

I have been in the process of redoing my setups with the goal of having fewer tanks but more gallons. As part of this I am moving some plecos from their too small 20 gal. longs into 33 and 45 longs. Last weekend I moved the H. contradens. During the process I discovered a cave with wigglers which my...

They come from fairly soft water with a pH in the 7 ish range to lower. They are pretty tolerant of a wide range of conditions. bear n mind these are seasonal spawners which means a fairly pronounced and rapid change in the barometric pressure followed by changes in the temperature, conductivity/TDS...

Most folks do not buy that number of zebras unless they have the idea that they would like to get them to spawn. So I am going to assume this applies here. In most cases spawning almost any fish is best accomplished in a dedicated species tank. So this argues for no tank mates and a setup conducive ...

No inserts at all. Plecos need tight spaces. When they spawn they are side by side but facing in opposite directions- at least the ones I have caught in the act have been this way. Dividers will mess up things, imo. Sorry for the poor pic quality- http://twotankamin.smugmug.com/photos/i-qmV74TL/0/S/...

Mix in up to 50% RO or RO/DI water. Rhis may also lower thepH depending on your other parameters.

I think your best bet may be an H tank and the right med. If this is a wild caught fish which is not all that long in country, I would bet on internal parasites and or worms. It looked a bit sunken in the pic but I have old eyes. But if it looks obviously underweight and even worse, I would suggest ...

I am going to disagree with much of what has been posted on this thread and do so based on personal experience. Firstly, you can easily find flubendazole in the US from Dr Charles Harrison. I will link you below. Secondly, while dissolving the powder in water is not easy, it is also not impossible. ...

this one the entire paper is available online. Abstract A new species of Pseudancistrus is described from the Tapajós Basin, and assigned to the P. barbatus group by having hypertrophied odontodes along the snout and lacking evertible cheek plates. The new species is distinguished from other species...

Acta Parasitologica March 2014, Volume 59, Issue 1, pp 91-97 A new species of Unilatus (Platyhelminthes: Monogenoidea) from the gills of Leporacanthicus galaxias Isbrücker et Nijssen (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Brazil Bárbara Branches, Marcus V. Domingues Abstract Unilatus irae sp. nov. (Dact...

Here is a big UGH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHvgYE_ ... 4&index=14

Most of my pleco tanks are bare bottom, but none of them has any paint. A nymber of them are on frame type statnds, that is they only support the perimeter of the tank. I have never painted the bottom as my set-up offers me the opportunity to be able to observe the tank from below. I have found this...