Today we purchased a very small (maybe 1") sailfin plec ( gibbiceps) . We do realize how large these fish grow, but how fast do they grow? Being 1" now how large would he/she be after 6 months, a year? Are sailfins generally nocturnal or are they seen more often during the day after they become ...

I breed Endler's livebearers and was doing my nightly de-snail of their tank when I noticed little white blobs, eggs which I first thought were the snail's. But then it hit me that they might belong to the pandas in the tank. I had trilineatus cories spawn once and these eggs look similar. They're ...

Hi, I'm relatively new to this site but I was searching for posts regarding rubbernose plecs. I've kept BNs for a while but got my first rubbernose late last week for a fry tank I have with lots of algae. The plec seems to be quite young (small) but has done a fantastic job with the algae in the ...

I bought this plec today, lfs had it listed as a 'rubbernose plec, chaetostoma sp', max size 4". I've been searching around and I'm thinking it might be L187a, which is also called 'Bulldog or Rubber Pleco - Chaetostoma sp'. Anyone familiar with this fish or can identify it as an L187a or something ...

I was at lfs today and saw what was called a 'stick algae eater'; I didn't get the scientific name, my bad. Apparently a peaceful fish, good algae eater, grows to ~7" long, and related to pl*cos (?) It look like a long thin twig or stick. Anyone heard of these, know the scientific name, where I can ...