Thanks again for the help. I don't think my Dad will attempt breeding(though I may snitch them on a trip up there and give it a whirl in my setup. Wish he would he has some gorgeous fish. I have Schwartzis and bronze cories so I'm hoping something will happen. Thanks again for the info I'll pass it ...

Thanks for the help. They are the C. Arcuatus. Has anyone had these? we're looking fr info and the catelog doesn't say much. The other four made it through the night so we think they'll be ok now. Thanks again.

Hey all I'm looking for info on some cory's we bought listed as Skunk Cories. They are all light colored with two long black tripes on them. One on each side that run high on the body the length of the fish. The LFS here did not have a scientific name for them. We bought five and lost one pretty ...

Thats odd. The guys there are usually pretty good at knowing whats what. Do you have a pic of it?

Which shop sold him to you?

I have two females and bought a male last week. I put him in the tank and he disappeared into a cave within 30 seconds. A week later I got curious and looked for him and he was guarding a clutch of eggs already. Not even a week. I checked again last night but the clutch didn't make it. oh well guess ...

I found a pepermint plec here at one of our petsmarts in minneapolis. It only took me a month to convince myself to get him. Bought him yesterday and he seems to be settling in. I'm looking for info also.

If you have guppies and want fry you need to have coverage for them. The parents eat the young if they can get them. I have my 20 planted with java moss, no fertilizer since I don't think its good for the young fry. Its planted pretty heavy, I also have some bronze cories and a couple mollies in ...

Welcome. I draw a lot also. I actually started on animals and now I'm a free-lance illustrator. Good luck with the bristlenoses.

Which lake/river did you find that in?

Ok I made it to auction and brought home some new kids. I ended up with some young mbunas. Some baby tri spot gouramis, plants, plants, plants, and a 20L. We also got some baby angels and bushynoses but they didn't make it. Too much stress. I tried but couldn't save them. It was a lot of fun. Theres ...

I went to a fish auction on Saturday and picked up another tank. A 20L this time. I also snatched up some cichlids, baby gouramis, and plants. We purchased some angels and bushnoses too but only one bushy made it and all the angels died. (Minnesota is below frigid right now and they got too cold at ...

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Did your gibby always have the holes or did they just show up? One of my gibbis had some rips in his dorsal and they have now healed. I just let him be and it grew back in about a month and a half from when I noticed it.

I grew up up north in Fargo/Moorhead, so mpls actually seems a little tropical in comparison.

I heard about an auction going on this weekend in the Minneapolis area. I guess they are selling fish and all sorts of fish related supplies. Anyone wanting more info can check out the minnesota aquarium societies page. I'd put in a link but I don't have it offhand. Minnesota is a cool place in ...

hey Ray. Nice to see another person from the Midwest.

If you check out my site you will have to retype it in. The asterick is replaced by an e in the pleco part of the name. Sorry bout that.

I think that it is the glyptoperichthys joselimaianus. I just checked it out and the new kid has the spot pattern of that breed along with the build. Thanks for the quick response everyone. I don't have any pics yet but I'll try tonight. I have my other plecs on my cheesy website. http://www ...

I picked up a new kid at my LFS this week. He/she was labeled as a "white-spotted gibbiceps". The new kid looks like my other sailfins except for the color pattern which instead of having giraffe markings like my two regular sailfins he has whitish spots. I tried looking it up in the catelog but ...

I draw, do some wood carving, cook. I like to read a lot. I have books scatterred everywhere all the time. I just got through reading some Larry Niven, though Robert Heinlein is my alltime favorite author. Hmmn, I like to do a lot of things. I go on "wanders" around the city and take photos. I go to ...

I'm a freelance illustrator and caricaturist. I work a couple days a week at the Mall of America drawing and airbrushing goofy pictures of people. I've been trying to find a graphic design gig since thats what I went to school for, but I haven't had any luck. Yes, I do do caricatures of pets, even ...

Well I think I lost most of the fry. The male is still guarding but there hasn't been much action the lst two days. He's back eating and doens't stay guarding all the time like he was before. So I'll give it a try in three weeks now that I know that I have two that have a hankerin for one another ...

If you take the screw into a local hardare store they can tell you what its made of, and they'd be able to sell you a new stainless screw for under a dollar.

I have chunks of natural slate in my tank. (it is actually untreated slate cut into tiles for tiling floors, I just broke it up into small odd sheets) My gibby's both spend most of their time when not eating staying on the slate. They blend into a little bit and its not smooth enough for them to ...

I also raise guppies. I do it to trade off for cool plecs. Thats how I got my two sailfins and a bushynose along with a bunch of gouramis. Your going to need a higher ratio of females to males, I'd say at least three females for every male. The reason being that guppy males are randy little buggers ...

Thanks. I'm thinking of just adding on a sponge filter for the time being to their temporary home. "Mom" is back in with her friends the Honey Gourami Colony. "Pop" is guarding the younguns. I'll keep from adding in a plec. I don't want to disturb them, when they get bigger I'll make changes.

Hey all, I'm going to need to set up a new tank in another week or so. Most likely a ten or twenty gallon. I usually just go for it and through it all together but this time I have a purpose behind it. My betta female wass getting pretty chunky after my male died so I bought her a new boytoy ...

My all time favorite is my sailfin. He has a ton of personality and looks great. I have about five other varieties too but they just are kinda boriing, they hide and don't do much. Salty the sailfin goes charging across the tank fins a flailing away chasing goldfish and giving me "the eye".

My Gibby also did the lighter thing when I first got him/her. After a while he/she settled in and has now gone back to his normal tones. He/she has also doubled in size since then. I just added in another gibby and he/she is going through the same thing. My first gibby now comes out and feeds during ...

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