Thanks for your help. I will post if this helps.

I looked through the articles and I read an excellent article about raising fry. http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworld/shanesworld.php?article_id=412&title=Raising+Sturisoma I will forward it to my friend, and I hope he hasn't tried these techniques. If this is not the article you mean, could you ...

I am a member of a local fish club, and we have a gentleman who is an accomplished fish breeder including many types of plecos, general catfish and many other fish. He has Royal Farlowella and they produce eggs regularly, but out of many clutches only 14 have survived. This is over a period of years ...

I agree. Individual specimens can vary. I had my dwarf puffers several years in a community tank. I didn't have any stressed fish -- they ignored each other. The puffers thrived and so did the other fish which were guppies and Bristlenoses (they outlived the puffers). I had no problems at all. But I ...

Shovelnose, I will need to research my drawf puffers a bit more and make sure which species I have. Thank you for the list of possibilites. I will take a good look. I bought two groups of puffers. Hopefully they are one species. SidGuppy, please do not worry, I am a responsible fish keeper. I do not ...

Hello there, I am building a biotope tank for my Dwarf Puffers, which are from India. I love catfish, and I wanted to add a few hearty catfish (and a couple other fish) to the tank for interest. Are there any relatively common catfish native to India that will not hurt dwarf puffers (1/2-1" in ...

That is an interesting idea. I have three "Flower" shrimp, and I am very fond of them. My only concern is that I wonder if they would get enough to eat over the 2 week period they are at the show. I spot feed mine if they look like they may not be getting enough to eat from the water column. I do ...

Thank you so much for your reply. I just wanted to double check about the Banjos. It is so easy to underestimate the Banjos, since they are so laid back. You don't think the Hoplo at 1.5" would cause a problem with the shrimp? I may not include the Banjos in that case. I definitely want the Hoplo ...

I am setting up a mixed catfish tank for a show and the catfish will live together from now until the end of February at a public exhibit. Then they will be back to their regular tanks. I want to show how cool and different catfish can be so there's a wide variety of fish. To add interest I want to ...

I just wanted to thank everyone for your help. Since I moved my fry to planted tanks, my fish have been doing much better. Now my regular BN and my albinos are breeding regularly every other month, so I have lots of fry, and they are happy and healthy.

Thank you.

Thanks. I picked up some live black worms on Monday, and so they have had black worms for a couple days. I also have live gammarus shrimp breeding in the tank. Hopefully they will like those too. I feed them frozen blood worms and spirulina brine shrimp. I always try to feed a variety of food. I am ...

Thanks to all of your for your advice and suggestions. I moved the remaining two Red Lizards to a well planted and cycled quarantine tank with 2 filters and a sponge filter. They had been at the shop for three months without a loss to a group of about 30. They were in a bare tank with a filter and a ...

Thanks you for your response Apistomaster, I am not entirely convinced the fish are ill. They show no signs of illness. No torn fins, good color and no heavy breathing. They do not have velvet or ick. The ones that passed looked perfectly fine too. I do agree I should have quarantined them. I have ...

Thanks Mats, Took a look and oodinium is the parasite responsible for velvet/gold dust disease. I pulled out a flashlight and turned off the lights, and the fish show no signs of velvet. So that's one thing I don't need to worry about. In my five years, none of my fish have had velvet to my ...

I normally quanrantine all my fish, and have two quarantine tanks set up right now, but I didn't quarantine them, because I knew where they came from. That was a mistake on my part, and I feel terrible. I was thinking about moving the remaining two to one of the quarantine tank. They were the last ...

I hope this is the correct forum for this question. I don't know where these catfish are from. I have read the main write up on these fish as well as the breeding write up. I bought four of these about a month ago, and they did fine for about 2 weeks. Then I lost one. Yesterday I found another dead ...

In my common BN tank, they parents live with skunk loaches, black neon tetras and a killie. I moved the male and the cave when I found the killie swimming around the tank with the clutch of eggs in his mouth. I removed the eggs from his mouth, moved the male and the eggs to the growout tank. He ...

My common is about 12". I have tried romaine. She won't eat it. She loves cucumber, zucchini is the favorite. She also probably eats what my other fish do not -- cocktail shrimp, shrimp pellets, flake, . . . I tired peas and green beans and she isn't. I know these guys are mostly vegetarians, so I ...

I agree all the way around. I have a lot of bottom feeders (catfish and loaches), and people do really believe these fish are there only to clean after other fish. Craziness. I am dedicated to making sure people feed their plecos. :) I am very curious if other people run into people who don't feed ...

I have two filters plus the sponge filter. I agree, if I had a larger filter I would be using it -- all my tanks are double or more filtered (I have multiple filters on every tank as a safeguard). I wasn't expecting my BNs to breed, so I have to make due with what I have. I think I must have a water ...

I'm pretty sure that there aren't many members of this forum that think that algae-eaters don't need feeding. Mats I agree 100%. I know the members here feed their fish. I am wondering if members encounter other people they need to guide into feeding their algae eaters. I have met so many people ...

In the new planted nursery tank. A month old BN and an adult Cherry Shrimp.

This is a picture of the old Quarantine tank. I clean it every other day. I will move all inhabitants to the new nursery as soon as I catch them.

Here's a picture of the new nursey. I have marked the BNs on the picture, but there are at least 10 more BN visible and 2 more shrimp.

Here's the Albino Bristlenose dad in his caving fanning eggs and fry. You can see the adult tank has sand and is planted.

I spent two hours moving most of my Bristlenose fry to their new tank (my 3-month olds and my 1 month olds). I transformed my quarantine tank with sand and gravel from established tanks. I moved water sprite from my other tanks, and heavily planted the quarantine tank. I added smooth river rocks, a ...

Over the years, I have found that many people either do not feed their algae eaters or they feed them lightly. I used to work at an LFS, and I was surprised at how many people thought they didn't need to feed their Plecos. I am using this term generally. I am talking about algae eating catfish in ...

Thank you so much. I will try the sand bottom and see if that works better. The parents' tank was sand, and I had problems there too, but maybe if I put them in a sand tank, then they may do better and I will lose fewer fish.

I will try that. Thanks.

I am not sure this is the case. The parent tank and the Q tank both have sand and/or gravel, and the disease was present in those tanks. I can certainly add sand to the fry tank and see if that helps them out. Or move them to the Q tank where there's sand already. That may be a lot easier. :) I was ...

I hope I am in the right place for this question. My Ancistrus cf. cirrhosus started spawning in July. I do not intend to breed my fish; they did this on their own. I love my Bristlenoses, so I am thrilled, and moved the fry to a 10 gallon grow-out tank that I had been using as a quarantine tank, so ...