After many months of waiting and waiting and some more waiting, my pair of bristlenoses spawned. I didnt realize how quick the fry grow becoming free swiming in less than a week! When I have bred cyprinids and a few different species of rainbows, it takes many many weeks to even to be able to see ...

I'm pretty sure plecos are not supposed to be that blotchy, regardless or stress or coloration. I had a "common" pleco look like that after a ammonia spike. However, it was transfered to a quarantine tank which was "algaefied" and the little guy was nursed back to health.

hahaha thats pretty funny

actually my math professor is from Colombia, and he talks about his friends being kidnapped and him wanting a better life where he wasnt afraid to do anything that could be interpreted as anti-government or anything like that...

:cry: :cry: :cry:

i feel bad for the guy ...

ouch...that sounds painful..., i once poured in aquarium salt and it burned the crap out of my amazon sword, it was nasty looking with holes in it, i take it freshwater organisms and direct contact with salt =

ouch...that sounds painful..., i once poured in aquarium salt and it burned the crap out of my amazon sword, it was nasty looking with holes in it, i take it freshwater organisms and direct contact with salt =

look at
Http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... _sp(4).htm

If you want to talk about Japans acheviements in JUST the field of fishkeeping, Takashi Amano has become a household name for his planted aquariums. He has his algae eating shrimp named after him "the Amano shrimp" (cardinia japonica) and his use of the Oto cat made it into a popular fish ...

Thats an interesting article, thanx for pointing it out. Next time I pick up some oto's ill make sure they are quarantined and properly fed. Another article on the page makes me want to breed the little guys. Hmmm.....

Oh and BTW, i dont mean to insult your "fish store" but a chinese algae eater ...

i'm really sorry, i didnt mean to offend anyone

Japanese like big fish cuz they are such small people :lol: :lol: haha just kidding!

Wait a second, on the very bottom of the list, that would be a clown loach if im not mistaken...and loaches sure aint catfish...

I have to admit those are some really REALLY wierd looking catfish...but for almost ...

JESUS, that is one big @$$ RTC, heh i wouldnt want to be swiming in THAT river, god it could take off your leg with ease...i hope they dont like human flesh...

good point, you being the catfish expert and all...heh but corys have more "bony plate" thingys than say a pictus, which has smooth "skin"...

You definatley want to isolate him even use a buck if u have to! Get a good fungacide and heavily aerate the water as some medications tend to lower the O2 concentration...

I'ive succesfully treated mouth fungus with methylene blue...

uh...corydoras have scales dont they?

In terms of PH, im a fan of Seachem's Acid and Alkaline buffer. Mix em to maintain a stable PH, also has NO phosphate (no algal blooms), Its in everyone of my tanks and you can use different ratios to achieve and maintain PH levels from 6-8...

uh.........what exactly is an attack oto :?: :?: heh a new species, otocinclus bellicus (war oto)...

heh i can imagine a oto with blood shot eyes who has been starved and released into a tank of neons, sucking away their mucus coating and eating them from the inside out :twisted: :twisted: :twisted ...

I have mixed feelings about oto cats. They are cute little buggers and sure are liked by takashi amano, but ive had the experience of unexplained initial fatalities. But once they are through the first couple of days they usually are pretty hardy.

Oto cats nor any other fish or creature will rid ...

Uh......this store doesnt sound too knowledgable about fish...i really hope you are not buying fish at PETCO or something like that, because they have told me ridiculous information in the past. For example they told me a small melanotaenia lacustrus (they called it a green rainbowfish, and it was ...

whenever ive set up new tanks, i use a few giant danios to produce waste (brachdanio aequipinnatus spelling?), these fish have spawn many MANY times so i basically use them as feeders or cyclers or you can use any hardy cheap fish...My experience has been after there is an initial bioload the water ...