Thanks mates for your inputs! Actually I had previously planned 4 inch between tanks. So I will correct my plans to find a way to fit all this in the room considering that the bottom tank must be at a minimum of 2 feet from the ground. That is for the filtration as water will get to it by gravity ...

Wow, I think you just won the prize for vocabulary word of the week! Really! What's the price! Do I need to pay the shipping :)) Just added consanguinity to the Glossary http://www.planetcatfish.com/general/general.php?article_id=439 Wow! I'm so proud I have made such a contribution to this forum ...

Is there something as consanguinity problems in fish?

Is it OK to start ancistrus breeding with siblings or I should get new females from my LFS?

I do feed my fish fresh vegetable too and have no problem.

But as a security measure, every vegetable are blanched (boiled for a few seconds) so I don't put bad bacterias or other bad stuff in the aquarium.

But if it is standing on a table, somewhere, I'm afraid the low water level (5 mm sand on the bottom, 2 cm of air above, thus 7 inches of water) might provide large fluctuations in temperature I imagine for it to even matter you're thinking of having a short but still a fairly long/wide tank, in ...

Thanks for your opinion plecoman!

Very pleased to have a reply from somebody with your experience with plecos!

I will still way a little for some more opinions but I must start building the tank soon as it's a long process.

Hi all, I'm about to need a new tank for my juvenile ancistrus. As my budget is quite limited and I must also consider total weight of tanks I thought about building my own "non standard" tanks. So the question is: What is the minimum height a tank should be for them. As these are bottom dwellers, I ...