Thank you for doing that! And yes, it's nice to see him develop.

My snowball (LDA033) just appeared in the front of my tank, while reading back this old post of mine. He's doing well, and has become bigger than he was. But I haven't measured him. He should hide himself when coming that near. I could take a picture of him from a litter further. Hereby. [img ...

Since half March I saw after a weekend holiday 10 eggs of anyhow the species Callichthyidae. 7 hatched, and 1 died shortly after hatching. So 6 are growing up. Since Tuesday the are in a 40cm tank, and they seem to do well. After having given them very small food like A. nauplies, they accept ...

What a beauty's you both have.

The younger one has very beautyful large spots (and, I assume, is accomplied by a nice specimen of L134 in the cave left?).

And the older one is so intensely black. Very nice. I'm curieus how old those three are with that lenght.

My snowball is still doing well in my tank. He has grown steadily since I bouhgt him two years ago. I think he's about 15 cm long. He's less shy than in the first year and shows himself regularly front in the aquarium nowadays. Herebye a picture of him that I made two months ago. [attachment=0 ...

In december there were about 16 eggs again. Eventually 9 grew up. Together with the only surviver of the deposit of october 2012 they live in my 60 cm tank with H. amandae en fireshrimps. See the video on YouTube:
[youtube]tjW6Wkyju80&feature=player_embedded[/youtube].

Only one young Aspidoras taurus survived. The first two were very healthy in my opinion, when they died. I have always thought that de Artemia nauplies were contaminated. I then directly stopped giving that and gave them mashed tablets and mashed shrimp palets. Later two of the three died shortly ...

Two pictures, one taken two days ago from three of the baby fishes, and one taken yesterday from a group of adults in my big tank.

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Last saturday, the 6th of October, my Aspidoras taurus spawned again, in my big tank. Other fishes, e.g. Cryptoheros Sajica, were often faster than I was to remove them. I removed about 12 eggs. After three (and four) days there were five little fishes. Ik feed them various kinds of products ...

Last week I measured one of my two L141's. He was 22 cm long. Because I had read the info about L141 here-on-PC a couple of years age, I had not still clear in my head how big they could grow. Remembered vaguely something about 19 cm's. But now I realize that that was the length of L200, I had years ...

I post an update because I got an automatically generated post from Planet Catfish management (or how you call that) in which I was asked to tell if I still have Aspidoras taurus in my tank, or if not, to tell about the situation. So now I give a update. Since a little more than a year I have ...

Nine weeks further. He adjusted to my tank, I presume. He stays in the leftside, mostly round the coconut and big wooden pieces. Each week more he's getting braver. I see hem on the substrate or at the back. He's beautiful. About two weeks ago a friend of mine took pictures. Here's one of them.

Thank you both for your expanded and profound reaction!

He is from the wild, and I think I'm going to ask that lfs, how long ago he was imported (hopefully they know this).

But although not certain, and dependable from various aspects, for now I take his age 'on' at least 1 year.

Since this afternoon I have a LDA033. His length is about 8 cm, perhaps a very litter longer. He is very beautiful, darkblack with big white dots. I know they must be like that, but this one is exact like that, and like I always wanted. The seller could not tell his age. Am I very wrong to 'give ...

My experiences during years: - 2 large females aeneus, both died after 8,5 and 9 years of age - 1 male aeneus albino (normal size), still living after 16 years Now there are several Cory's in my tank, beside that old male: - A group of 4 sterbai, of wich ther are 2 very large female of about 3,5 ...

@Loachy: How do I do that? Adding to My cats page?
@Kim> Thank you! Always nice to hear there are other Aspi-fans like me. Are your Aspi's also breeding?

These Aspi's have all the time eggs. Rather large amounts, while they do'nt get often frozen stuff.

Since a couple of weeks there was again some fry, 1 brave one, surviving in the tank and 8 in the breedingtank (3 bigger ones, and 5 small ones). Tonight the 3 bigger ones went back to the tank of their parents, so there are now 4 reasonable grown-up young ones in the tank beside the 11 adults. In ...

My son discovered a young Aspidoras taurus in his tank (Rekord 70), that is running since 6 weeks. In this rather dark tank with turf, Javamoss en Javawheat(?), Anubias, Echino, etc. he only has a group of Aspidoras taurus. The little one is very lively when you see him grazing for food on a Echino ...