I have a very robust 2 inch albino Bristlenose catfish. Up until yesterday, I had him in a 10 gallon community tank, where he pretty much just ate and, er, defecated. A lot. I came home last night to find my ancient zebra danio (like I'VE had it for six years, so heaven only knows how old it was), n...

Upon a fairly exhaustive search for Synodontis species for sale around my very rural part of the country, the only one I could come up with, other than S. Eupterus (of which I already own a magnificent individual), is apparently S. sp Hybrid No. 5 . Unsure of the identification, this individual seem...

I'm pleased your Chaetostoma seems to be feeding now, but if you have a 55g, why have you got "some danios, a gourami, a betta, and corys... a very robust 2+ inch albino bristlenose, Ancistrus Cf cirrhosus" in a 10g? The 55 gallon was just purchased and is not set up. There are 3 danios, ...

I would suggest you get a heater guard - plecos have a tendency to find heaters as a "good hiding place", but it's not good when they suddenly get heater burn. It would appear that fish (at least plecos) don't sense heat very well. -- Mats There is quite a bit of space between the wall of...

I think the sweet potato did the trick! I haven seen "General Ackbar"(sorry, my 9 year old son is a HUGE Star Wars fan :-p ) actually on the potato, but he's seems perkier, and he actually seems a little bigger than he was a couple days ago! He has mostly been hanging out between the heate...

Leo and Houdini are in their new home. I have to say Leo looks positively miniscule in this new, fairly barren tank! After heading off a potential tradegy (the brand new heater in the tank suddenly quit working ~X( thank goodness my hubby went to three different stores and found one!), the two of th...

Again, thank you for your advice! Well he/she was by the heater for a while so I dropped a small piece of Sweet Potato in that corner (and of course it flew to the other side of the tank). There's also a bigger slice in the tank, hopefully to tempt the bristlenose into staying away from the rubbermo...

Thanks. He/she made a brief appearance this afternoon, now once again I cannot find it. I'm hoping it's stuck to the back of the driftwood :-\ .. May I ask if the zucchini or the sweet potato needs to be parboiled? Do they float or sink? Any recommendations/tricks to keep veggies on the bottom? I al...

Hello all, I purchased a Rubbermouth Pleco, Chaetostoma Formosae, yesterday. Unfotunately, the owner of the pet shop caught me the tiniest one possible, coming in under 1 inch. It is currently in a 10 gallon community tank with some danios, a gourami, a betta, and corys. The tank also houses a very ...

This is usually considered a Lace Synodontis Synodontis nigrita I did click on the link, thankyou, but the fish they are selling are definately juvenille Eupterus. Could look here as well, our hybrid syno thread http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28659? Wow, I didn't realize...

Would it be possible to keep more than one Synodontis in a 55 gallon tank?

The eye is looking better, the iris is still a bit cloudy but improving. He has a couple superficial scratches on his side(I'm assuming from the new piece of driftwood in the tank, I had to put the smaller piece in the smaller tank for the clown pleco and a new piece in the top 10 gallon for the alb...

The new tank now has gravel, the cave, a plant and an old filter cartridge from the established tanks. I have also been crumbling a bit of fishfood into powder and putting that in the tank. As I was arranging the gravel, cave, plants etc. I noticed there was a slickness/film on the rocks, nothing ma...

Question, if the cave, which is "natural rock"-looking with all kinds of nooks and crannies, same with the floating log, will putting those decorations into the new tank also add a lot of BB to the it, since there is a lot of surface area on them that should have BB colonized? BEST THING: ...

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I would say the new tank is 2/3 full with water from the other tanks. The rest was well water. The gravel was from a 40 gallon I had when I was a teenager (half a lifetime ago)not new but not seasoned per say. I didn't put carbon in the filter, I had bought this huge pad of filter material that I ca...

Our local fish store has been getting a lot of baby albino bristlenose (1/4 to 1/2 long, barely)in lately and one thing they have been doing is keeping them in tanks with no gravel. That way the food is easier for them to find (and also for you to remove if it's uneaten). My albino is probably the a...

Thanks guys! I ran out today and bought Leo his own 10 gallon tank. I got the el cheapo Tetra Aquarium kit on sale, but it's got a filter and a hood and a heater and it's fine for one fish. YES I know it's a temporary fix. But he's going in there ALONE with just his cave, a small plant, a bubblewand...

I have a six inch Synodontis Eupterus in a 10 gallon tank. Yes, I realize it's too small a tank, and yes, it gets worse. "Leo" is in there with 1 spotted loach, 1 clown pleco, an albino bristlenose pleco, 2 corys, 3 rosy tetras, 5 zebra danios, 1 pearl danio, 1 betta and 1 Sunset gourami. ...