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Congratulations!!
That's a new life...
Enjoy every second, time flies.


My wife Clare gave birth to our first son, Jacob Lewis Dignall at 16:39. I'm just home from the hospital with a steak pie supper and am going straight to bed, 'cos I am knackered!

I love that part (ooh, the laughter ...

Hi everyone,

I finally managed to find bunocephalus, though not verrucosus as I expected.
I got 4 yesterday and they are in my 450L south american tank, with small characidae, red sherry shrimps & 1 L081.
Not too many plants, dead oak leaves, dark water, no strong light.

I am willing to hear to ...

hi everyone,
nothing new, but I added 2 more platydoras costatus yesterday, so that makes 5 now... I hope that will help.

salut salut,

comme après plusieurs mois de non réponse concernant ma commande, il se trouve que j'ai trouvé hier à Rennes des poissons vendus sous le nom bunocephalus coracoideus.
j'ai sauté dessus, j'en ai pris 4 sur les 6.
pour info, ils étaient à 9.50 pièce & ils font dans les 7/8 cm.
après une ...

bon, eh bien j'ai finalement passé commande sur le site allemand, en jonglant avec mes petits restes de cette langue...

yes, that's a sensible & practical to do, Larry. I'll do it.

to Martin & others : no problem for the off topic stuff & fun... 900 gallons, wow!
Sometimes I wish I had monkey arms (but forget the hair, uh!), because although I'm not a tall woman, I can't reach the bottom of the tank at arm's length ...

Ah..... La je suis jaloux....

Depuis le temps que j'en cherche...depuis que j'ai perdu les 2 miens...

Je pense que cela doit etre possible...

Attention aux problèmes de territorialité possible avec les Baryancistrus...il ne faudrait pas qu'ils les dérangent trop sinon ils ne seront pas à l'aise ...

no agressiveness.
I did try to make it move, it simply stick its caudal fin back onto the rock.
As the tank is a bit deep, I only managed to use a fish net & my arm was entirely in the water, bending more could be risky :D and since I knew that the fish was safe, that was the most timportant to me ...

I can't tell, really.
But anyway, here are some of the pictures I took yesterday afternoon (from above the tank):

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/2701/dsc07221fa6.jpg

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/6147/dsc07222bo6.jpg

The cave is narrow, as you can hopefully notice, there are others of ...

Hi, lovely pictures!
People here in France now breed more & more shrimp species (almost a frenzy, for some people).
I had basic heteropoda, red cherry & the white ones... gosh, can't remember tonight. :? and an impressive pair of macrobrachium.
They are gracious & fun to observe.
We stopped the ...

thank you guys a lot, it helps.
I'll do as you say, Larry.
Indeed, the fish is not stuck, and as I removed what can be considered as a roof, it could have gone but it simply refused to move.
No eggs on that slate, none visible on the back side neither, but the tank is pretty deep & it's blackwater ...

tu nous tiens au courant, bien entendu...

Bonjour bonjour,

eh bien, oui, je crois que j'y viens, la faute à qui... :D
Ainsi, puisque j'ai eu ouï dire que ce poisson n'était pas particulièrement difficile, je me dis que je pourrais peut-être en mettre dans mon 400/450L sud-américain, peuplé de petits characidés & d'un L081 (bac pas super ...

Ok, so here are the "news"...
I just couldn't remove the gibbiceps despite several tries, partly because my oscar couple had laid eggs.
Then, today, I finally made up my mind to lift that slate to uncover what was in the grotto, since no move was seen.
Well, I disclosed what I consider to be the ...

Bonjour,

voici, en ligne, téléchargeable, une thèse d'un jeune véto de Maisons-Alfort qui conccerne notre passion:

http://theses.vet-alfort.fr/telecharger.php?id=695

Il s'agit d' une thèse sur les maladies des poissons d'aquarium avec les traitements et les produits vétérinaires adéquats.

Je ...

alors ?? peut-on féliciter le nouveau diplomé ? (ah, les vieux souvenirs...)

merci pour ta réponse.
j'avais glosé cet après-midi mais comme j'ai mis du temps à cliquer pour valider, tout est perdu... :oops:

bref, bref...
alors, oui, Kashmir avait bien recommandé ce site sur AB, et j'ai retrouvé un post où il conseillait aussi celui-ci qui n'a pas l'air mal du tout pour les ...

Gosh, thanks Bas, I'm so stupid I had simply not thought of it...
I guess I could put them temporarily in the 400L (damn, I just finished rearranging the plants!), it's not great neither for them nor for the inhabitants but I don't see any other possibility.

Hello & welcome!

Hello & welcome

Hello,
now, there is definitely something: the 2 gibbiceps keep paying visits to the entrance of the grotto (I had noticed before but it's been going on for a few days, more insistingly) but don't dare getting their head in.

Is there anything I can do to ease the platydoras with their spawn / fry ...

thank you, all !

Hi Yann,

thanks a lot for your interest.
One of the 2 comes out when I feed every day, then goes back & joins its partner that is always in the slate cave.
But that 2nd one never does (at least, not at day time).
I noticed that the gibbiceps are both pretty interested by what's going on in there ...

Bonjour,

certains voisins (Aqua 35, Aqua 56) ont fait une commande groupée de nourriture sur un site allemand
http://www.witt-tierbedarf.com/afterbuy/shop/storefront/start.aspx?shopid=25311

mes connaissances en allemand remontent au lycée... c'est dire :D et les traducteurs online sont très ...

lol & thanks
I actually don't feed them much but I think they enjoy oscar dang as I never see any in the tank since platydoras have been introduced & yes, surely, anything that reaches the bottom is for them (they are far better than the giibiceps).
I sometimes wonder how they can possibly be so ...

you can buy Pangasius fillet here at any supermarket that has fish.
same for Nile Perch ("Victoria Bass"), Tilapia and Clarias gariepinus ("African Catfish")
these are common as dirt. :lol:



that's right, tilapia & pangasius are widely available.
pangasius comes from fish farms in Vietnam ...

Good afternoon to all,
OK, I checked: still no move, provided that the one which barred the grotto from behind changed places.
I took a few pics, I'll try to show you but, unfortunately :oops: :beardy: my dear husband updated my Windows Live Mail & therefore, I lost most mails with ID & links to my ...

thanks Bas, but you know, nothing's done yet.
today the rest of the tanf had sticks, sea food, crickets, and green tablets: some reached the bottom but the platydoras didn't show up.
they are well fed the rest of the time: their pectoral fins can hardly touch the sand :D and I suspect they are to ...

sure!
et merci beaucoup!

Hi!!

I am not aware of any breeding report with this species...and if it is the case then it should be a premier!!!


well, that's why I registered, because as I'm not anxiously careful about my parameters, I thought if it happened to me, it should have happened to others... :?:
still, they are ...