WOW!

That's amazing!

Thank you for that awesome post!

I'll wait for the next spawn now. Hopefully they do it soon! and ill follow your advice!

Thanks again.

Well on the night of day 9 the eggs turned white and opaque. :cry: I was soooo looking forward to day 10 as well.
The embryos must have died for some reason, and I'm thinking that they might be light sensitive.

I could see the little things in their eggs all dead :cry: and all.

Next time ill ...

DAY 7 now



Little embryos in the eggs

Any advice regarding rearing fry etc. would be greatly appreciated! :D

So the story is these got imported into NZ a fair few months ago and I bought some the day the were made available! :D (such an addict)
I've been feeding them a nice varied diet and luckily it so turns out that I have one male ...

2wheelsx2 wrote:Which species is the first pic? Very interesting looking.

She is just an oddball L066

Any not impressed with that tank is eather blind or dead
very nice
Thank you so much! :D

just took a few more pics tonight.

http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp114/phoenix44/DSC02387Small.png

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Not sure if your problem has been solved or not, but you can recalibrate the heater if you need to.

You just put the heater in a bucket or a smaller tank, and wait for the temp probe light to go off. Make sure the water is evenly heated and has water flow, or you'll get thermal layering. Then take ...

Thanks so much! I love my catfish to bits
The other 'swimmy' fish in there are merely dither fish as far as I am concerned

err.. I tried posting that link above and it vanishes in the post when i use the youtube bb code.

[Mod edit: Added youtube tags - you only need the youtube id itself in the youtube tags, not the whole http://www.youtube.com thingy --Mats]

Thanks!
I've changed a few things around with the tank - mainly pruning and stuff.

Updates -

Tank before prune -
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and after -
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Inhabitants -

3 x female Red eye red tail puffer fish - I had males that repeatedly committed suicide so i have to wait till I find one more. They are a very uncommon fish here.

1 x bumble bee goby
4 x corydora sterbai - gotta have some catfish :D

Plants - Lots! mainly crypts, Rotala ...

Thanks!

I have a planted puffer tank too. plants are just about maturing in there

A few pics of some of the fish either presently in the tank, or recently removed.

http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp114/phoenix44/DSC08174Small.jpg

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I just use a simple gravel substrate with pebbles as well. Helps the plants dig in well whilst having no impacting problems. :D

I only just added the CO2 and its effects have still to be seen properly.
The swords have some JBL balls in the substrate, so that helps some of the plants. I don't do ...

Don't really post on this forum very often, but I figured I may as well cause I always get a lot of help when I need ID's on my plecos.... Took some pics a couple of nights ago, and since then I've done some minor trimming on the plants, mainly the L. Arcuata, H. Polysperma and Ploysperma Rosanvig ...

krazyGeoff wrote: The next batch of L140 are about 3-4 days away from consuming their yolk sack, and as yet I am undecided what to do with them!

I know a fair few people that would put their hands up for some fry (me included)

Another great breeding!
congrats!

yeah, I thought they were normal everyday albino bn's. they are so pretty though! Ill feed them up and see if the colour changes, and if it doesn't then I'd be happy to put it down to selective breeding for the whitish colour.

yes. just like those pics. I have the normal albinos that have this lovely rich colour to them, and the new ones (3f, 1m) are really pale. Very pretty fish, but very pale in comparison.
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I just bought 4 ancistrus temminckii "albino". Apart from the colour difference that is visible, with the ancistrus temminckii being pale and almost white looking (like its seen a ghost ); what is the difference between the two fish?

Looks identical to my L66

Hey guys,

Sorry for asking for a seemingly related ID again, but I got 6 of these today. The supplier sells them as white spotted bristlenoses, (an.docichopterus).
Based on what someone else has bought, and you guys have ID'd they are - Ancistrus sp. `Rio Ucayali`. Does the same apply to these ...

krazyGeoff wrote:just have an addiction that needs feeding

Welcome to my world.

I am currently planning a tank (for next year) with blue phantom plecos, whiptails and a pair of discus.
Only if I could stop being a student...

After seeing the latest picture, I too think its the rio ucayli. I got another pic today:
http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp114/phoenix44/bristlenoswr4ee.jpg
Nice orangish colour on the fin

I think they look so awesome, and even better without the heavy price tag :D
:cheers: to everyone for ...

Hey guys,

A friend of mine bought this as a normal BN. They definitely are not. Which brings me to question what they are. We do have "starlights" here in NZ, but I somehow doubt they would just pop up and sell as normal bristlenoses!

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Based on first hand experience, I would say these are L140 as well.
All the list says is big band tiger Pleco (L288) which it is not. kinda funny that the one time they ever use L numbers, they get it wrong

holy moly. what a find!

whoa! love the plecos!!!