It is interesting to finally place faces with the names.

Barbie, Love your pic. LOL

Here's a recent dorky pic of myself.

Steph

Did a search for this thread and realized the typo in my original post. Oops :oops: The pencilfish are AWESOME tankmates for pygmy corys. I have 3 different types in with my C. habrosus and C. pygmaeus. They all shoal together. In the morning when I turn on the lights and feed them they all go ...

My cats (and other fish) really enjoy the new set-ups. I added some river stones and sprinkled in some gravel around the corners. My plants look like crap though...snails :evil: Here are some recent pics (should've cleaned the glass): http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7786/tri38iw.th.jpg http://img9 ...

My clown loaches got ich shortly after I bought them. I treated them with Ick Guard II by Jungle Labs (http://www.junglelabs.com). It's labeled for "scaleless fish." My lot of four clowns all came through, even the wee little baby. I caught it pretty early though. I did 10% water changes (gravel ...

Why take kuhlis when you have plenty of catfish which can do exactely the same? My banjos do just as well if not better than my kuhlis did at keeping things stirred up. My cories are having a blast in the sand. My clown loaches always seem to be having a blast no matter what. The black sand in my ...

That's pretty much what I did, and it worked for me... I just moved the occupants of a 75g with gravel and plants into my new place and their new tank, a 90 gallon. It's about a 2 hour drive. I bought some of the big (30 gallon, I think) Rubbermaid plastic totes. I filled them with old water from ...

sidguppy wrote:is it an open tank?

No it has a hood, but the back of the tank has an opening for the filter that hangs on.
She (the cat, her actual name is Anonymous, she's a black DSH) is bad for drinking the water as it comes out of the filter.

I have a 20 gallon tall that I have plants growing in. It's been running for over a year and is completely cycled and such. I use it as a bristlnose grow-out tank. Well, recently the ammonia spiked for no apparent reason. I even lost a few BN's. It was weird. I did water changes (twice a day) for a ...

I was out of town for a couple days and when I came back I notice my L-200 had managed to squeeze into the smallest of the pleco caves. :shock: There are several in the tank of various sizes, all made out of clay. Why he chose that one, I'll never know... I noticed that he looked like he was ...

My parents bred bettas for a while, but I was too young to remember them. That tank was then used for my first goldfish when I was about 5. I had them until High School with the occasional common pleco. I never could figure out why they never lived very long. No wood, no algae tabs, just what ever ...

the process of freezing vegetables break down the cell-structure (because the ice that forms inside the vegetable breaks the cell walls), and that makes the vegetable go softer than if it was just raw I knew it had something to do with the cell wall and making it easier for the fish to eat, but ...

I thought the vents on the bottom of the container were too small for them, but apparently not. I saw one of the escapees tonight. :o :shock: He was just hanging out in some Anacharis. By the time I got something to get him out, he'd disappeared again. He'd grown considerably though. Maybe he has ...

My guy is about 4 1/2 inches total length. He looks just like the sub-adult pics of the ones in the Cat-eLog...Pseudancistrus sp. (L067). He's not been shy at all either, probably wondering why we keep staring at him and going back and forth from the computer to the tank. :) Do they get snout ...

The last of my pleco purchases arrived today...it was listed as a L-17. As soon as I acclimated him, I hopped on here and checked the pics of the L-17 again for comparison. My boyfriend and I are 99.999% sure that he's a L-67 instead. He looks exactly like the pics of a L-67. I don't have any great ...

I had a gold nugget a few years ago get a nasty heater burn. It was blackish while it healed, which closely resembled your bristlenose. He would hide his face under the heater. I added a heater guard. On a happier note, I have had BN's that when one of the females had eggs her color would change ...

After I collected the eggs, I added an Elite Stingray 10 to the tank and directed its flow to hit the bottom of plastic floating hatching container; I couldn't find my hanging net. I used a plastic pippette and cleaned out any "crusties" of food everyday. I had a culture of microworms and vinegar ...

The pencilfish look Awesome. They have settled quite well and already their colors have became brighter. They get a banded pattern in low light settings. I can't wait to release them with the corys, but I'm keeping them quarantined and not jumping the gun. I definitely need to take pics of the ...