Looking forward to it.

Good luck. They are neat fish.

Congrats on the spawning. How are the fry doing?

It seems with Synodontis lucipinis if you give them continual cover that creates shadows, they will generally be fairly active even if the lights are on. If all they have for shade are separated caves they will probably be more nocturnal.

Welcome to PlanetCatfish.

What do you do about evaporation?

I think over filtration and low bio load are why your tank is doing OK. It would not surprise me if with that stocking, low feeding and filtration if you could do water changes every 6 months and maintain decent water quality indefinitely. If you are stocking(and ...

Congrats

If all possible having an overlap where you could set-up tanks or storage on the other end will be a big help. One thing is the fewer fish you have to deal with, the easier the move so any fish that can be sold or given away will make things easier. Obviously there are some that can not be replaced ...

What temp do you keep them at?

bekateen wrote:I'm sure it's a great experience.
-Eric

Hope you can find out in person in 2016

I have offered to being as many different L Number Pseudacanthicus juveniles as possible to show in David's room. The main concern is setting up tanks and heaters. I do not want to overtax anybody but driving in from Michigan takes some time. I want to at least bring LDA07, L114, and L600 to show ...

I added a thread on the PVAS forum for room sales. You should be able to see it with out logging into the PVAS forum.

http://www.pvas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=7317

Would there be interest in setting up an account in the catfish convention auction for donations to planetcatfish?

Thanks to PlanetCatfish for the sponsorship support.

The following talks were covered:
Julian Dignalll, "Suckers Around the World"
Hans Evers, "Brochis"
Birger Kamprath, "Synodontis"

Nabobmob1 wrote: It's been 10 days and I've yet to receive PVAS forum activation...

Matt you have been activated on PVAS.

If anyone else has issues registering for the PVAS forum let me know and I can pass it on the forum admin.

welcome

Shane wrote:Paul,
Your fish above are actually Farlowella vittata. Your water conditions are more than adequate for spawning. Mine spawn like clockwork in much harder water with a higher pH.

-Shane

Are you spawning them in tap water or do you use a mix of tap/RO water?

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Try a 75% or more water change. It maybe also that they are spawning, but eating the eggs.

For C. paleatus your best bet would be to see how they do with your water without changing the parameters. If you get into the more challenging cories, you may need to use a mix of RO water or rain water as mentioned by mchambers.

If they were from the James River Aquarium Society auction they are either CW052 or Aspidoras spilotus.

Those registered for the convention by July 31st will be in a drawing for $200 in "Auction Bucks" for the Sunday auction.

Registration is here:
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Hotel link is here:
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Details about room sales are here:
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softak wrote:I have some green laser cories, just interested at what size is it OK to sell them.
Currently I have some of them at 2-2.5 cm

About an inch(which is 2.54 cm) is a common guideline in a lot of fish clubs in the US.

Congrats on the spawn.

Do you plan to sell some at the Catfish Convention?

Are you coming to the Catfish Convention in October?

Can anybody tell me if room selling is done at the Convention and if so does one have to book a special set of rooms where room selling is allowed? I went to the PVAS site to see what I could learn, but they require one join to read and there is no reason for me to join.

As Barbie said, "yes". It ...

Can anybody tell me if room selling is done at the Convention and if so does one have to book a special set of rooms where room selling is allowed? I went to the PVAS site to see what I could learn, but they require one join to read and there is no reason for me to join.

The rooms for room sales ...

Convention registration is now open:
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Hotel info is here:
http://catfishcon.com/hotel.php

Did you look up the COTM on these, some info there and a forum search will bring more too.

I started with these feeding NLS pettets and bloodworms...they did not even get out of quarantine and they had spawned. I just gave live food when I had extra young from other fish that I had bred myself ...