I never heard underfeeding results in apparentlyy too large fins for the tiny body

On the other hand, C longipinnis ony has a big dorsalfin (the males) and no extended pectoral fins

Let's find out whether the esperts have a clue

So we have a good chance of getting to see a few wonderfull pics in a few months I know how you felt, a group of very intersing fishes (2 m, 4 f) is offered here, (Astaheros calobrensae, a CA eartheater, behaving just as Geophagus) but I don't habve place for them, and no room for another big tank. ...

@ Matt,

I'm afraid I kept it too short - if a fish needs to hide, hiding places must be provided.

Tose hiding places will have to be constructed of something, and therefore replace water

I think Platydoras gets far too big - mine are 20 cm, 5 cm from left to right, and 3 - 4 cm from top to bottom (depending on when they ate last) :lol: without measuring the fins As they need to hide - and thus need shelter, I'd say your tank is large enough for a Platydoras - if you take out all oth...

Regardless what kind of buffer you intend to use, almost all have side effects. I do not know whether you are a chemist (I am) or studied pharmacy, but if twice no, I'd recommend not to start with the project You may dislike peat, but it is by far the best (frankly the only) solution for your proble...

Nice idea - as the walls are thin, the caves do their job, without pushing out too muich water.

However, PVC is one of the very few plastic which do not float. Most other plastics would require the use of some rocks to keep te cave on the bottom

Most likely they are PVC - especially if you were able to glue them with PVC glue. That stuff soes not glue anything else, that is, I never found anything which I could glue with PVC glue. It certainly does not glue PPC (polypropylchloride) Polypropylene can not glued with anything, it can only be c...

I've had Microglanis three times now, currently I have a few I collected in Uruguay (thus not available in trade, due to very expensive flight, hardly any wildcought Uruguayan fish is sold in shops)which I see almost always. Both earlies attempts at enjoying Microglanis went wrong, because I never, ...

My problem is, trhat when raising browsing cich lids, I must have food available for them, but the snails take it first. I have remouved over a hundred snails from raising tanks last saturday, but in fact only a few percent of the whole problem is solved this way

not very usable in a tenk 40 incehs long, i'm afraid

I wish I could tell you - I'm fighting snails for years now, and in the end, i probabbly loose

if a 125g will drop 1.5 ph in a week it could possibly kill all my c*****ds which would be very bad lol. Here I disagreee. I predict you, the frontosa will go firs, the Jack second, and the oscar? The oscar will be happy to finally have good water. This is, the frontosa wants pH 8 (and is sensitive...

Good suggestion. I might have a problem planning it (busy weekend ahead), but still.

Today my Sturiosoma male spawned again - the third time. The eggs are on the frons window, the darkest place in the tank, with also the most current (near the innerfilter) All previous attempts went wrong, I think due to the convict cich lids in the tank. Now I wonder, could I remouve the eggs just ...

cichlid power, that's all

It looks like the reallocation problem will soon be solved (that is eaten)

If i had the choise between these 2 fishes I'd go for the catfish (but, frankly, it's not even my kind of catfish, I prefer fish with smaller mouths)

I once heard they only breed after 3 years or so, so expect them to reach 15 at the very least

catfishes do get old, very old

as the firemouths are cich lids, thus off topic, I will not go into them - go to http://www.cichlidae.com/forum/index.php for them. However, I worry a bit about your ammonia. 0-0,25 does mean more than 0, and thus a little is aroumd However pH 9 is not good for any south american fish, not for the W...

that is really conservative, 2 inchet - 100 % in 4 months

You do keep them very well indeed, I think

soltarii007 wrote:Even at the fastest growth rate of 2-3"

just out of curiosity, 2-3 inches a year?

The only reason why i will not BBQ any of my fish, is that I'm allergic to eating it

Look at it this way: If you can provide a fish a good life, untill it reaches a foot of length, but ikt keeps growing, you better eat it, after killing it paiinlesly, than let it suffer

They come fron South America, mostly imoported from Colombia

They are not agressive, but quite busy, and like each others company. Thus it's best to either give it a few mates, or return is.

They are also friendly to humans, at least they never said anything bad to me

Shane,

Thank you for your posting.If I go to the flowershop asking for Yucca, I get the plant in Featherback picture.

In feat, it is new to me cassave and yucca are the same. Anyway, Europeans be warned about this Yucca problem

Bas

ranmasan wrote:inch per gallon ratio

As I'm use3d to the metric system, I stick to cm per liter.

Actually, this allows quite a lot more fish in the same tank (4/2.5 times as much, approx)

To me Zoo Zajac is just an appetiser for Tillmann Hobbyzoo (http://www.hobbyzoo-tillmann.de/), who specialises in American Cich lids, and has every now and then an odd, large, catfish

Tanks for the link

Congratulations. Couldf you pm me the adrress or so? Never heard of this shop

When I installed a tank (300 liters) with internal filter (2500 l/hr, 38 watts) I had, just as you, not expected to see the temperature raise However, a submerged pump has no other coise than to give all excess heat to the water, and all energy used to displace the water will due to friction result ...

Wow. Apart from its concition, it's a nice ca(c)t(us)fish

perhaps to save you a lot of time, fish take up salt in the gill - chlorine cells re dedicated to that

I would be more inclined to believe the theory that stress levels in the fish lead to poor osmoregulatory regulation, loss of salts and the shrinking of tissues. Correct me if I'm wrong but the lost salts are extracellulair salts, thus the cells themselves keep their salt. Thus, asuming the same am...