can't you get some gyuppies or so? producing tiny little fish, small enough to be eaten by them?

You could also tyr convict cichlids, in a seperate tank, siphoning the fry as soon as it's swimming

racoll wrote: I think off the shelf internal filters are a waste of time, money and space.

Here I fully agree

congratulations, you finally got them

looking foreward to seeing the next steps

Personlly, I'm very found of internal filtration. However, I don't refer to any commercial product, but to custom made glass filters: 5-10 % of the whole tank content. They are filled with the blue foam, several (5 - 7) layers of 5 cm These I hardly clean at al. I replace one layer every 3 or 4 mont...

The fish as depicted is Gyroncheilus ammonerie, NOT a catfish, but related to carp.

When young, they do eat algea, but after a while - around 3 inches, they will start to prefer a more carnivorous diet. They might even disturb larger fishes, such as discus

It's obvious, but still it's sometimes good to state the obvious, as a reminder. in this case, I will need the room (the whole tank) for 2 more litters - >30 each, and the tank will be needed in winter for fish currently outdoors (all from Uruguay). I don't think it's a good idea to remouve the new ...

Thank you

It's the first catfish I breed - apart from Ancistrus, so I'm rather too carefull

Bas

last year I received 9 rhineloricaria, from Uruguay. I think, but I'm not certain, Charaguata refers to their habitat. during the winter I kept them cool, I got eggs and now i have approx 20 joung ones, 4 cm on average. When can I remouve them from their tank? I wonder especially, because I have 2 m...

personally, not claiming to have seen all, I never saw a female this bristled. In fact, even half would be more than I ever saw

Would it be possible to take 6, not 2?

I had 2, which I never saw, addes 2 more, and the were active all day. They were houded in a 130 8 50 * 50 cm tank, with Biotodoma sp cf cupido Santarem

So fish do read aquariumbooks?

smuggle them back in my suitcase :twisted: I wouldn't blame you, but do remember, the plane flies at 10 km altitude, approx -60 C air temp. I'm not certain about circumstances in the planes frieghtarea, but as far as I know, tropical fishes have a high risk of deying in your suitcase. However, I di...

To me the UK is also Europe, but more importantly, apart from Germany, I got the idae English peaople have something with catfish, so I would assume we would have to cross the channel to get nice ones

Perhaps it's just the seemingly greenness of the grass?

muddy - of the dissolved clay kind

racoll wrote:I assume if you can brew beer with it then it must be pretty safe.

A quick google does list a few sites that say it is toxic, but they don't look very reliable.

hop is an essential ingredient for beer, but I would not use it in any tank

Sorry, I fail to see your logic

I did collect my microglanis myself - in the Aroyo tropa vieja near the town Salinas (30 km from Montevideo), Canelones, Uruguay. Most likely it is another species, but this arroyo is quite dirty, dark and unplanted. Apart from the soil, and some stones also some organic matter was around (Uruguay d...

I have 2, I got them some 3 years back. Than the were around 25 cm (10 inches) I would guess them to be around 40 cm (16 inches) by now I've seen more fishes trying to cope with a wrong environment, and if they get released into a better one (their tank measures 270 cm, that is 9 feet) they can rest...

It's friday, but somehow I have the feeling Haavard might be too busy to come to this forum

Unloading 14 tanks, looking at them, again looknig at them............

The perctoral fin is nothing to worry about, as Silurus sais, some mechanical damage might be the most logical cause However, the spot around the eye can be the result of a bacterial infection. In chichlid keeping a swollen eye is quite infamous, and hard to treat. However, most likely the eye got t...

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