Sounds like you're having some good success with your fish. Congratulations. In my opinion, if you're not trying to breed them in high numbers (I.e., like for commercial production), then the beauty is that your original parents should be productive for a few years (depending on species and their ag...

Well said, Bas Pels. Inbreeding isn't automatically bad, but it does have negative side effects for most species over generations. Mr Whippy, how do you intend to breed your fish? Do you just plan to breed the same parents over and over, or do you plan to take their kids and let the kids breed with ...

I imagine that I'll need to remove her [the yellow female] in order to guarantee that my lone male turns his amorous activities towards the white female. FOLLOW-UP: Sad news. Three days ago, I removed the yellow female from the tank, leaving just the male and my white female together, with the juvi...

Congratulations! Well done.

Looking at the photos of on the l-welse.com website, this does look very similar to the photos of the shown in the other thread referenced above. Interesting. Thank you, Matt.

Cheers, Eric

Thank you.

Are these fish not territorial? Do they mind caving so close together?

Hi Jools, I'm sorry for keeping you busy in this part of the forum, but here's another bug. And I suppose this one is to be expected, since the BETA label creator is a "BETA" after all. I tried making labels with the BETA label creator and this is what happened: Starting from a CLOG page (...

This phenomenon is not unheard of. Amazonas had an article about it, it's not limited to just one species or genus and the reason is still unknown if I recall correctly. Is the fish in this photo ( image.php?image_id=16341 , Rhinelepis strigosa ) experiencing the same decoloration, or is this the &...

LOL. Okay, you have a deal! Just wait until I finally win the million dollar lottery!... but that might be a while.

Hi Jozi81,
Wow that's a beautiful aquarium. Would you please come over to my house and set up my aquarium to look so nice?
Cheers, Eric

Hi All, I'm thinking out loud here: If this is an unusual but "normal" phenomenon that occasionally occurs in some individuals without obvious causation or ill-effect, do you suppose that it might be a species-specific manifestation of the same phenomenon described elsewhere for bristlenos...

Hi Jools, I'm noticing that some BLOGs don't show SL values for growing fry. I wouldn't have realized the problem existed except that I know I just entered the data for my Scleromystax barbatus BLOG and yet the data doesn't appear when the BLOG is viewed. But if I return to the Edit screen for the s...

I joined only about 7 months ago, and I can still remember some of the questions I had back then. So based on those, and what I've seen new members ask in the forums since then, here are my suggestions (very similar to PlecosAndLoaches' ideas), in order of priority: What is this site? What is its pu...

Acanthicus wrote:old specimens of the common brown Ancistrus sp. can reach up to 25cm TL without problems.

Interesting. The Cat-eLog says the max size is around 12.5 SL. I realize that old fish keep growing, but I didn't know that much. Thanks.

This is all very informative. Thank you all for the suggestions and info. ... I like analog meters... Relatively cheap low range conductivity meters will give you accurate and repeatable measurements... Any meter that offers low range (0 - 999microS) and automatic temperature compensation will give ...

I think I have a female from 25 cm, so it could not been the L088 On another forum they told me it is à "common" ancistrus. Hi john h, The term "common ancistrus" is obviously very vague, but I don't think I've ever seen a "common" ancistrus anywhere close to that body...

Hi Jordanlewis100,
Welcome to "the Planet!"
Cheers,Eric

Hi All, I'm in the market for a digital TDS meter (either just TDS, or a combo meter, or meters that measure specific GH/KH (if they exist)) and possibly a digital pH meter. Is there a brand AND model you recommend? I know that Hanna and HM Digital make several different models. Which of their model...

Hi Shaddrag,
Welcome to "the Planet." Nice tank too. Is that floating wood in the middle, or is that a mounted decoration?
Cheers, Eric

This guy started to change color to yellow about 2 weeks ago. Too early to tell with Sr. Paz. This is a fairly recent color change and I've only had him just short of a year. Yes the color on my females goes back to "normal", the varying amounts of yellow come and go. Right now they are b...

Okay, thanks Magdalo. Also, does the redness occur in both sexes when they fight, or only in the males?
Cheers, Eric

Okay, thanks Shane. I've never seen the red before. And if you'd mentioned them fighting before today, I'd have said that I've never seen that among these clowns either. However, after cleaning the tank (which involved rearranging the caves and furnishings) and replacing the fish, I did see the same...

Hi All, While cleaning my tanks today, I observed that the pectoral rays on one of my clown loris ( Panaqolus maccus ) were bright red; the coloration was equally strong on both pectoral fins on the same fish and the redness did not appear to spread onto the rest of the fin on either side. Although ...

As you can read, over time all my breeding groups got less productive or having problems with the eggs. I apologize for missing this. I've been following the thread from the start, but I think that over the course of days, I lost track of this detail. No, the idea isn't crazy; I think it's complete...

Hi jac, thank you for sharing all this. It's very interesting. After reading it, I must say I'm still uncertain about the idea that old tank syndrome (OTS) is your problem. Here's why: If it is the problem, then why are other fish spawning successfully in the same water system? Shouldn't all of your...

What's wrong with Loricarids? Nothing. But it's my impression that people, at least in the USA, like to have abbreviated nicknames for everything they interact with frequently. It serves both as a combination of short-hand so they don't need to say long words and it conveys a familiar and affection...

... in the early to mid 2000s on a large scale as U.S. chain pet stores put the old LFS out of business... In Northern Virginia where I am with 2.8 million people there is not a single LFS left. The closest is 45 minutes away in Maryland and the next closest one after that is two hours away in Penn...

Pleco is easy to write and read but I always feel awkward saying it when it isn't actually a common pleco, the giant we're discussing in this thread. Plus people might go, "lori? what is that?" and then maybe pick up a book or google it and learn something. Agreed. One obstacle to this mi...

Corycory wrote:So maybe, put some floaters in the sterbai tank

Or try adding spawning mops to your tanks; they might work too.