yep the L174 is in my signature

uh I don't but I'll try with a mobile camera pic

hey guys!
I need an ID: i bought a male ancistrus that is completely black with little light-blue spots on his body. It' s surely an ancistrus, he has a lot of bristles. I'd like to discover which sp he is Surely you can help me. Regards
Francesca

ouch... does anybody has an advice?

and can you also sex them?

ok.

the 'male'

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/9028/0307081626on9.jpg

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/5466/0307081624rw8.jpg

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/9403/0307081625pv7.jpg

'female'

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/1479/0307081628op2.jpg

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Hi, I use only RO water, i' ve just checked the pH with Tetra liquid test and it was 5
C. habrosus after some weeks of silence laid some eggs last week... no summer holydays for them

hello! I bought these fishes labeled as L270 but i am not sure. They are more oir less 10 cm long and i also would like to recognize the sex even if i think I should take better pics!

The 'male'
with bigger odontides
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/3103/0107081403kc1.jpg

The second one
http ...

I'd like to see more competition, but the fact is that as always things in Italy are done in the famous italian way. Most of the people are Rossi's fans (i personally don't like his as person, not talking of ability but of image and personality) and all the speaker always hopes he wins, i hate ...

i' ve seen it! congrats to this guy! I also enjoied GP race: finally ducati's staff seems to work in the right direction

they look females to me...

firt of all thank you for the answer... :)

well i know they should try everything to keep themselves alive... but i've thought the problem can be that they die for the costipation and pressure on the body's parts (stomach, heart and so on) cause in few sdays the get huge and it is not normal in ...

Hello everyobdy.
I had 3 O. cocama. Some months ago i discovered one of them was a female: she started getting bigger and with yellow eggs visible in her belly. After 2 day she was so big she could not move normally, with eggs-layer (i don' t know english words for that part that put eggs un the ...

after a quite long absence i'm happy to read such a long and interesting topic!

It seems all the answers have been given, anyway for habrosus is very easy for ready female to be distinguished, they have huge bellies and are large as 2 males!

no other ideas about the sex on the first one?

Hello! I'd like to post some pics of my habrosus colony! I bought 10 really small, 1 cm every fish, and they grew bigger and beautiful. I had 7 females and 3 males. After some month a female died so now i have 3M and 6 F.

They are great egg-layers!

Here is one of the males
http://img395 ...

thanks anyway. I checked on a list of italian sellers but no plecs. Aufff I'll have a tour in Europe sooner or later

sorry, i meant L184 not 183 anyway I'll take a look to your link, closing here with my off topic thanks a lot again

i think this is a certain male:



belly:



and here hairy skin can be recognized

well the problem is that iyaly has not big aquarium culture: the 99% of the tanks are guppies and discus and he only L known are Gibbiceps, ancistrus sp(3) and plecostomus.
Other are so seldom required that have incredible prices. I've seen just once a L183 adult but it was 40 € when people all ...

sorry if i write in this topic. I've been looking for something like L183 or 184 (or L100 or L059)
but in italy there is no choice. Do you know if there is some way to send them from foreign countries with safe shipping choices?
A way to receive them in one day maybe, from Germany or Switzerland ...

Well, something incredible happened tonight.

I don't know why and how, but some minuties ago my L066 went out from her new cave and was like this

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/9356/dsc00048qf9.jpg

looks like there is only a small scarf like burnt skin and nothing else.
Maybe the 'yellow ...

Aw, I'll try to measure him/her next time he' ll be in open space.
I also have a belly sight


if usefull... thanks anyway

Hello everybody. I have now 2 L129, the others i had have been given to a friend and i kept only one, then i bought anither one that looked like a male.
I post here the pics of the one that's less hairy.
May be a female?

Upper side:
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/205/dsc00054dd8.jpg

she ...

well medicines don't work at all. Under the cotton looks like che's 'burnt' but now it seems something yellow is growing :shock: i can't understand

Some friends gave me the idea of taking it off with a cotton-fioc and apply the medicine directly on the sick area: betadine or sera baktowert... which ...

no ideas?

I can' t let it off from her head!
I'll try with Dessamor, anybody knows it? I fear it may be too heavy for plecs

That pic is a little old, this one is actual

hi! If you mean the pic in my signature that one is a 5 cm long L174... :wink:

i can see my L066 is a female cause it's a little more than 10 cm and has no hairy fins at all and the body shape in a little feminine.
She could also be a L333 even if i bought her as L066, I'll post a pic even if it's ...

Hello everybody.

I have a L066 female that has been in a quite cold tank for a while, at 19-21°C

She started to get thinner and now her belly is really 'empty'. She did not eat and i think because of her 'sharpened shape' she cut herself on the top on the head with something hard as a wood.

I ...

or at least if he is a he should have some bristels also along the line that goes from the 'nose' to the space between the eyes.

Take a look ah the fins also: the two lateral should be a little hairy too...