This is just to show how much most carnivorous or omnivorous fish can enjoy a live snack once in a while. This L-264 got a snack of a full dispenser of worms about 2-3 times a week along with the rest of his diet. He grew extremely fast and was very active and social, even while the 10000k bulbs ...

In my opinion, it is not too shy a fish. I have an 8" that I have had for abotu a year now, and although he doesn't come out often, it doesn't differ much from my other L numbers. My L-46 come out more often, but that is because they are pigs and any sort of food drives them into frenzies. With this ...

Just to be sure, you are aware that these fish get to be a decent size when mature? Unless you have mature specimens, you could be waiting a good long while.

It is said that they have not been bred, but I have heard that they have by at least one breeder. Well, the breeder is in I believe Brazil, and works for a fish exporter, and apparently has been able to get L128 to breed pretty frequently, so that bodes well for L200 since they are supposedly the ...

I don't really know about all that....at first I thought the same, since I have seen multis diving in and stealing eggs from both the cichlids, and the syno pair trying to sneak eggs in. That's well known, and rather upsetting because it would be nice to get huge spawns. But upon increasing the ...

May I ask what that great price is??? Just curious they sell them for about $120-160 a pop here :cry: Curious as to where you have seen them at that price....I live in the area and have been to pretty much every fish/pet store in the DC/VA/MD area....and have never seen them sold at such a high ...

My god. He looks about to pop...

Usually body is a striking dark-medium blue...and spots looke more whitish than yellow....bad lighting and angle in this pic....I have also enjoyed a few others..... L333 is a striking pleco also, there are just too many for questions like this, heh.

May I suggest L-128, L-200 is good too, but L-128 seems to be a bit hardier than the L200 color morph, and is a bit more striking in color. This is a horrible pic, but this is my 7-8" L128.
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He isn't referring to the actual fish being like this description, he is asking if anyone has ever heard of marketing/sales strategies like this... And sadly, yes, it is common for uneducated LFS employees to make statements such as this. In all honesty, I don't think the rhino is really all that ...

One thing about the frontosa.... I have never heard of an account of spawning multis with Frontosa, and have even tried myself. My prolific Mpimbwes (F0), immediately stopped breeding every time multis were introduced to the tank, just turned off. And even if you could get them to breed, it is ...

Sounds good everyone...more advice is welcomed. Looks like I am spending my last bit of money to add on and get 12....better chances though. What's the smallest anyone has had them spawn at?

To somewhat second that, did you read to see how large both those royals get? Not only would they not have any room to move, but they would likely have issues with water quality in that small a tank... Get some nice dwarf species....

I am finally obtaining a group of 8 L-46, and hoping to get another group or 2, try to get these guys spawning and more prolific in the hobby. I am probably not the best person to attempt this, but I shall try. I was wondering, I have heard many people claim to have success with varying temperatures ...

I do have 3 adults atm, easily 4-5"+, want me to post pics so someone can point out the differences? I am horrible myself at sexing these, so would not know where to start.

Check the catalog, there is plenty of info in there, or if you want search for it in the search toolbar. It is a relatively easy pleco to take care of, and a beautiful one, the only downside being that you will definitely need large large aquaria for it in the future.

River Wonders is for real, and they did have around 400 which are currently sold out. They have informed me they will be getting some more in the future. As for how they are managing to collect them, I am not sure. They are supposedly not being collected now, but since RiverWonders collects/exports ...

I'd be seriously surprised to see them being offered retail at $50 this year. The cheapest I have seen them on WHOLESALE lists is $60. I've only seen them available at all on 3 lists, as opposed to the usual dozen. 3 years ago I bought a dozen of them at $20 each. I wish I hadn't sold so many of ...

Not really very much info on the site or anywhere I have searched on breeding these guys, preferred PH for breeding, any triggers which might work better, etc. I know these have been bred by a few people and was wondering if anyone here has had experience, thanks.

I would say go for the longer tank, the bigger the footprint the better usually...... As for dealing with filtration, since I only keep african cichlids and plecos, I usually am the same about filtration. I generally try to have enough filtration to cycle the water through the tank 8X or more per ...

Since you have the yellow lab, and are going with other rift lake species it seems, you are going to have a relatively high PH. All of my malawi tanks seem to do best in a 7.8-8.6 range, fish being better colored and more active. That's a pretty high ph for many plecos. Many common ancistrus that ...

I don't really understand what the point of the post is?

Ok, to start off, whether or not they seemed to be doing well on the previous water change routine, they probably weren't so hot, because after all one ended up buying the farm. As for cleaning the filter, the reason you don't clean the filter every water change is because beneficial bacteria grows ...

Aquarium center. That store has been going straight down the tubes since they changed management, overpricing and killing stock, mismarked fish, etc. But then we were there buying some supplies and lo and behold a tank full of zebras. We assumed f1 or f2 due to them being small. If they are your ...

Plecolover.... I don't understand why you posted wrong info, then posted correct info, and then chose to argue the correct info again, going so far as to try to flame Barbie for telling you not to be a fool and post things that you don't know. I've seen Barbie help slews of people with great advice ...

As to the question of whether or not F1s are present, they are in some areas of the U.S. more so than others. There are some breeders across the country who have gotten constant and prolific spawns, you just need to look hard for them. Most of them will ship too, so even if you don't live near one ...

What has been said so far regarding them is rather accurate. Although lately, there has been a resurgence of importing of L-46 into the U.S. I have seen several website obtaining small quantities of them, and a few people on aquabid have also obtained a few here and there. Recently when visiting an ...

Recently I found some decent sized L047 for a decent price of $40 a piece(for them decent at least). They are all around 3-5" in size, and I purchased one today. I was hoping to hear if anyone knew how I could go about venting them to discover sex, possible ratios, etc. I have never heard of anyone ...

I am attempting to use Hap electras(deepwater hap), red empress, yellow labs, labeo. trewavassae, and fryeri to be hosts for multis. So far, within a week of being in the tank, the hap electras have held hap/syno eggs, the rest are still growing out/getting used to the tank, but have heard of all of ...

Thanks for you help barbie, always appreciated. Anyone else want to help, feel free to :) Stripped the Trewavassae, and to my surprise fry came falling out. As far as I had known, she had only been holding a day, at least thats the period where she was visibly showing. The fry appear to be all ...