I vote Contradens

I am going to show this video to my 183 pair tonight along with some boom chicka wah wah music.

*fingers crossed*

Are you saying its curious that the female is caving? I have several pairs....and for sure most females avoid the caves except when interested in breeding. They usually hang out behind driftwood. I do have one though that I am pretty dam sure is a female but it always hangs out in a cave like the ...

I have some F1 183s I would part with. They are nearly what you would call 'young adult' I guess...right around the 3" mark.

I will PM you.

Yes many cichlids are aggressive...and emperors are really aggressive I'm told. It is even hard to keep a mated pair together because of their aggression. here is an interesting video with them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo4KcsBN--A sorry I do not know their scientific name haha ya 200 tanks in ...

Hi Viktor... thanks for your interest I think the tank setup has been sold. We dont have the money in hand yet though but Im fairly certain its a done deal. Some of the fish may have been sold too. They are at my girlfriends house so I am not sure. Someone was suppose to come and look at them ...

1 Synodontis Angelicus ....probly close to 9" - asking $50 4 Synodontis Petricola ....young adults - asking $50 for all 4 1 Royal pleco ....not measured but Im guessing close to 7" - asking $35 The Angelicus is kind of a rare find for most people. They are not too commonly available most of the time ...

Well....he did his job then haha. He put them where everyone else would have a hard time getting to them. Hes a good daddy lol. I guess in this situation youre gunna just have to let things run their course. I bet a good many of them survive if they can find enough food. It hard to say though since ...

I would worry most about the swords but Im sure everything in there might have a go at the BN fry when theyre at that vulnerable transition from yolk sac to out and about trying to feed. Personally I would not want a spawn of BN in a community tank. The best thing that could happen is most of them ...

The heater is for a 55g, if I have it on low it over heats the tank. If I bury it, it stays coolish (80*f). yah sounds to me like what I said above. That heater is heating up the gravel around it and shutting off prematurely before it has a chance to heat the water too much. junk it.....you are ...

well I dunno....my eyes must be off then I see two cats that are easily more than 3 times as long as a hand. I have no idea how big that hand is...but mine measures 8.25 inches from wrist to tip of middle finger. How long is your average brick? 9 inches? Those two fish could easily be pushing the 3 ...

nvcichlids wrote:I thought they looked like a sp of bullhead... but I may be wrong (brown bullhead?)

3 foot long bullheads? haha Id love to see that

But some of those pics do have a bullhead color to them for some reason

Just noticed the placement of the heater - I'm pretty sure all heaters are supposed to be in the water column rather than in the gravel. Mats DOH... good eye. Yah I wouldn't try that I don't think. You really want the heater in a spot where it receives some water flow over it. It helps a lot to ...

Richard B wrote:TL stands for total length, but yes it does mean the overall length including the tail.

doh... see my brain wanted to include the tail so that's what my fingers typed

put some sort of cave facing the front of the tank where you can see in with a light...I like caves that are a little longer than the male and an opening about the size so that his pectoral and dorsal fins can touch the side when erect feed them well...I dont think its really needed but some say you ...

ok thx Mat I will try to get some better pics in the next few days. I dont know if the color in the photo is showing true or not. The spots are a copper color. One distinct thing that stands out to me is the row of larger spots along the top edge of the dorsal fin. Following the logic that they came ...

DOH...why isnt his face showing....pic too big?

Last year I ordered 2 trios of 213s. Well when the box arrived I did get one trio of 213s...the other 3 fish was a 'reverse trio' of whats in the pic. This is a male...probably nearing 4 inches TL. I know it is only one pic...and not a great one at that. But can you tell what kind of BN this is from ...

After posting pics on several websites of a fish that came to me in a batch of 201s the general consensus is that it is a contradens....a big fat female.

I would like to find her a mate....so does anybody know where a person might locate an adult male contradens?

shoot me a PM

thx !

nvcichlids wrote:i feed my bristlenose 0 veggies... and they are fine.

nvcichlids wrote:-maybe this is why I always lose my colonies of bristlenose due to male aggression, too much meat?

huh? lol

each type can be a little different...but usually by 2 inches TL you can tell who is gunna be male

sometimes females will get bristles around their lip...but if you see any bristles starting up on top the nose...its a male

Hope these pics are well enough for an ID All the same fish....over 2 years old and around 2.25 - 2.5 inches TL http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz120/trebor69_album/L3406.jpg?t=1268703821 http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz120/trebor69_album/L3403.jpg?t=1268703838 http://i819.photobucket.com ...

Hope these pics are good enough. What are these 2? And are they 2 different kinds of fish? first fishy http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz120/trebor69_album/polkadotpleco1.jpg?t=1268703475 http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz120/trebor69_album/polkadotpleco2.jpg?t=1268703499 2nd fishy http://i819 ...

I want to move my school of sterbai into my discus tank

I keep my discus tank temp at 84-86F

I know the sterbai enjoy warm water but is that too warm for them long term?

its a bit warmer than their upper limit recommended here on PC

I have some GNs that I hope will soon be housed in a 75g....but the tank is empty of substrate and decor. I was just wondering if anyone would want to show pics and give recommendations on tank layout and decorations that will allow some viewing of the fish? I would like to attempt to make the tank ...

thx would be a prophylactic treatment deworming/de-fluking while in quarantine before hopefully going into my discus tanks the angelicus and petricola will be going into their own tank at someone elses house with other synodontis and the rest eventually into 2 discus tanks but right now they are all ...

is there a condensed list somewhere of meds that catifsh can and cannot tolerate?

I am wondering if meds like Prazipro and Ultra Cure PX are safe?

to try and be more specific... synodontis angelicus and petricola....sterbai cory...BN pleco...and gold nugget (L018)

well unfortunately this fishes condition rapidly declined and it passed I know nothing about these fish so not sure what might have happened. I am going to assume the combination of the rough handling by the previous owner and being stressed from being moved around to new home was just too much. The ...

I dont have a pic but the damage looks very similar to the fish in this thread....

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =8&t=24077

I just came into possesion of 2 Synodontis Angelica. In their eagerness to both kram into a cave made for one....and the ensuing effort to get them out... they got kind of roughed up abit. One especially sustained some substantial scuffs. Theyre not deep wounds or anything but they are more than ...