Well,
After reading all the answers I feel a bit naive about my previous idea....I called the man that normally comes for maintenance and he told me the same! He said also that everything will be done in less time than a couple of hour and the filters will be put on a tank with the aquarium water ...

Hello Friends,
well, I lately was a lurker, but I'm planning to move to another house between the 1st of december and (before!) the 25th! I will have a nice garden for my dogs! So I'm just trying to plan everything I will have to do....and especially about the aquarium. I'm very worried about it ...

When I bought the Galaxias I saw at my aquarium shop one of them at last 25 cms and very very BIG and FAT!

Giovanna

Hi group,
I read somewhere that plecos were eating snails....well, I bought 2 weeks ago a new plant and some days ago started to see 1 snail....I thought well wait a bit and see what happens with the galaxias.....tonight appeared 5 or 6 snails of various sizes.... :evil: .... it seems that my pleco ...

Hi Dinyar, this is just a wonderful idea....I forgot that my internal filter is just of that kind you mentioned and the power head inside has Venturi aeration!!!! I surely can control it better than an airstone! and the exit of the air is just at 3 cms. from the surface.....THANK YOU so much....will ...

Hi Yann & Kostas!

Thanks for your suggestions! But now I'm confused :lol: . I will wait next Thursday when the man who makes the monthly mintenance of the tank will clean up the filters to see what to do about the airstone.....you know since I'm 65 now, it's very hard for me to take off the filters ...

YANN!!!

Precious info! Yes! it should be an airstone, but I will control during the dark hours eventhough is very difficult to follow 007's movements!!! Thank you!

Well after 20 days having the galaxias I can say that he is absolutely a GREAT fish....I read everywhere that they need a lot of oxygene and very often they go up to the surface to breath.....my tank is a 200 lts. with 2 filters(internal and external)
and there are only 2 big discus along with the ...

Thank you for the info...now I'm less worried about his health! I'm only worrying about if he will start sucking the skin of the discus....I will take an eye on him to see what he does during the night! Nice little fish!

Giovanna

Hi again Kostas!

Yes, of course he has woods and rocks to stay hidden....but he seems to like the holes made by himself....don't know why! I really hope that he'll become domestic like yours! I can almost pet my discus and he isn't that scared by my hands though! Tomorrow will break a floral pot ...

Here it is my Pleco Galaxias....he lives the whole day this way...I didn't ever see him swimming....is that normal? Anyway the food desappears and I find every day new holes on the ground .... but I'm a bit worried! Any comment will be appreciated! Giovanna

http://www.graphomania.com/test/pleco ...

Hi Flyin....well I just wish that my pleco won't do that to my discus otherwise I will have to take him off the tank ....I bought the discus 2 years ago and they were so small like a coin and now I'm very affectionate to them! They are domestic enough and I almost can pet them! Till now the pleco ...

my Vampire Pleco also eats snail! I wish I had more in my tank! Giovanna

I was hoping to collect more info about their way to live in aquarium, but it seems that I am the only one having the Vampire Pleco. Well I can add that he is a GREAT digger and he's going to destroy all the plants! He seems to be healthy and the aquarium has never been so clean from remained food ...

Hello Group,
happy to have been able to find this Forum! I'm Giovanna and live in Rome, Italy. As I remember I always had an aquarium and my preferred fishes are 'Cichlids and Catfishes....I just added to my tank that already contained a couple of big Solid Red Discus a Leporacanthicus Galaxias ...