addressing your question in regards to large plecos and cory cats. i have personally kept them together for decades and without a problem between the two that i have ever noticed.if ever there are two catfish species that truly compliment each other, it would be plecos and corys.i truly can't say ...

im sort of confused also and have asked the same question on different occassions.as little as 15 yrs ago it seems all royals were easy to spot in dealers tanks because of the same basic football shape and those highly identifiable "royal pinstripes". as of late, enter the spotted royals,striped and ...

wow!!! enchanting!!!

it is a real blessing to have friends to talk to about things so near and dear to us as our fish tanks and their catfish occupants.im sure many of you have wives, or husbands who could care less about these things which we are so passionate.my wife dosent know a doradid or loricariidid from fish and ...

thank god for health and happiness.thank god for such a peaceful,relaxing,and interesting,lifelong hobby. thank god for fellow fishheads,and all the excellent data shared on planet catfish. remember on the seventh day god created the catfish !!! happy thanksgiving to all of you;and thank you planet ...

all of the info is clearly on the money.i love my oxy "mr. snuffleupagus" as my grand daughter calls him.he is the center of attention in my biotope tank. he hides in his large sewer pipe until the algae wafers hit the water, then the show begins. he really identifies with us and is a family pet in ...

the so called talking is one of the most interesting and desirable qualities of the doradid family !!!

take a look at oxydoras niger they get fairly large but your tank might be able to house one. they are a very interesting, gentle doradid; that would blend easily with the doradids you already have.any of the larger loricarii would also be a nice addition. for midwater and upper layer occupants the ...

now i know why i love black gravel. this is really one beautiful tank.

wow only 3 weeks? awesome job !!

wow !!!! i like !!!! nice dark tank.

i love black sand i always use it myself. it makes the tank look so magical,and gives it a lot of depth.my favorite plec is p.nigrolineatus, but for more contrast i'd choose h.zebra,they would look killer on black sand. or try panaque sp.L397,the bright orange and black would really pop.or just go ...

i have always used hikari,but have interchanged with wardley from time to time.i am considering omega one spirulina for cost effectiveness and quality. i have heard they are great when spawning and my herd of myleus rubripinnis cant get enough of algae wafers anyway. all in all i dont think there's ...

that is a really good question! i have one that i picked up about a year ago sold as a pictus but now it is 10" t.l. i have changed it's i.d. in my mind 5 or 6 times, but have come to strongly settle on p. maculatus. my other thoughts were p.pictus,p.albofaciatus p.clarias, among a few others. you ...

oh yeah,tank size. by themselves or alone? for about 8-10 with a few angels and 6 or so cory cats. i'd say 90 gallon tank with as much underwater wood as you can purchase.by themselves,75 gallons is great and i wouldnt go much smaller than a 65 high, due to the long fin extensions. hope this helped ...

from the sucker mouth,and the long filaments on the pectorals and caudal, and high dorsal fin; i dont think this could be a digger.the body just dosent seem powerful enough. a lot more delicate. like something in the whiptail pleco group.i would feed algae. spiulina wafers.and maybe bloodworms ...

it looks like synodontis angelicus crossed with another syno.

hey grokefish, sorry for the loss.i guess i know how you feel literally, i have lost some very special and very rare fish. we all have. as aquarists we have taken responsibility for reproducing a river or lake system in a relatively small glass box. sometimes we are successful, sometimes not.but we ...

I have very very fond memories of our Perruno cat "Bigboy". We had him from the size of 4-5 inches to 36 inches; about 9 years. He was as big around as a 5lb. coffee can, and never,ever bothered any other fish in his custom 6x3x3 foot tank. That is as long as he wasn't being fed algae wafers! That's ...