That fish is absolutely stunning!

Thank you

If I have two messages in my outbox, does it mean they're sitting there because the recipients haven't read them? Or they're sitting there because for some reason they haven't been sent? D.

Thanks. I saw them on aquabid, and I don't want them badly enough to overpay by that much.

Thank you. Will do.

I'm located in Winnipeg, Canada. Looking for a group of Peckoltia compta. Hopefully from someone in Canada that can ship to me, or if in the US, you could ship to the border in North Dakota and I'll drive down and get them. PM me if you've got, and are willing to sell. Regards, David

mine laid/guarded the eggs in a small ceramic egg similar to pictured in link..

http://www.aquabid.com/uploads/breeding1266778646.jpg

Corydoras aeneus. 1998. I bought them as small fish and they grew to an enormous size and spawned all the time. (my other "first fish" were tiger barbs and bala sharks)

good luck with the fry if they hatch.. David

Fry at just over 30 days from the eggsac having been absorbed...So far-so good.



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In my experience ancistrus will eat pretty much anything I throw in the tank. The purpose of trying this is to get fish that ignore sinking pellets to eat. I think it's worth the small inconvenience. *shrugs* David

90 minutes since I dropped in the test piece. two different types of ancistrus, snails, and crystal red shrimp are all eating it. I can see places where they're rasped it away, but for the most part it's holding up really well being submerged in water(not quickly dissolving) David

The oven worked really nicely. I can't even scratch it off with my finger nail-like cement. I assume that will change after I submerge them in the tank water-but probably slow enough that they will be attracted to the 'algae" and eat it..testing one of them now..David

About halfway through I upped the temp to 200 F and the paste seems to be baked on to the consistency of cement at about the 80 minutes mark...I'm going to leave them for another 10-20 minutes, and then shut off the oven and let them bake a little more on residual heat and slowly cool down..David p ...

I read several months ago on the site here about making artificial "feeding rocks" for hard to feed pleco fry. Obviously not a concern with most types of ancistrus, but I've been concerned about my latest spawn of chaetostoma fry eating enough. How it works is you mix pure spirulina powder with egg ...

Update/Observations: As of today I have an accurate count of18 fry with no apparent losses since they finished hatching almost a week ago. I believe I lost several of the eggs/fry to the predation of the shrimp in the tank before I noticed and created a "buffer zone" around the breeder basket with a ...

Thanks for posting about your collecting trip(s)- especially enjoyed the pictures..David

I didn't have any luck with the last spawn. The male ate most if not all of the eggs before, or as they were hatching. I recently got another spawn and decided to try something different. A couple days after the spawn I stole the eggs to raise seperately. All the eggs "eyed up" and all appear to ...

So sorry for your loss
David

I've been changing 50-75% of the water every second day-that's probably overkill. Once I move them to the 350 I'll test the water regularly to figure out where I need to be with the water changes. My future plan was to approach the local zoo about taking them before they outgrow the 350 gallon tank ...

They're approx 16 inches and 18 inches..They're currently in a 6ft 100 gallon tank for a couple weeks so I can keep an eye on them, and make sure they're healthy and eating. I will soon be moving them to a 4ft by 8 ft 350 gallon tank. David

I got these on Friday. A friend of mine has had them for a while and just couldn't keep them anymore. They're pretty much furniture (at least while I've been watching)until the food hits the tank..David p.s. I agree with the people that feel fish like this shouldn't be sold in stores because of ...

Larry:
When I spawned them several years ago, the eggs went all over the place and I had to hatch them in a breeder net. I agree with you that if they're in a nice clump and the male is attentive, he will likely continue to care for them. David

I've also been there a few times.. Really sorry to read about your loss.. David

Into that bag also goes a towel (Douglas Adams was right)

David

Jools wrote:If you'd care to share those videos, I'd love to post them to the catelog - they're ace!

Jools

Be my guest
David

Starting to see fry(with yolksac) on the glass today.I've turned off the powerheads in the tank: I think they might've been getting sucked into them and perishing. Hopefully I get them to survive in some numbers this time..David

I just tried three times with my blackberry. I get the RSS list of all the topics, and then when I try to go into a topic, the first two times I got that error again, and then the 3rd time I finally got in..Not a big deal as I have other options for browsing the forum-but tapatalk was convenient ...

It's working for me now also. But it has failed several times in the past week or so. I finally just decided to mention it when it happened again yesterday. I'll let you know if/when it happens again.. D

I can view the list of latest threads, but when i try to click on a thread to read the posts i get the following error message:
"Uncaught exception:Application Tapatalk(198) is not responding; process terminated"

Tapatalk still works fine with other forums that I currently use it on..David