those are fantastic photos! what a great spawn! congratulations on all your babies!
and thank you for posting updates as the babies continue to mature.

DK

Also apparently has been caught/found in the wild in USA too.
http://nas2.er.usgs.gov/viewer/omap.aspx?SpeciesID=767

Welcome aboard! Gouramis are one of my faves. But they seem to have fallen out of favor locally. Everyone wants cichlids! So I'm glad to see someone else keeping them too!
(Sorry, no idea about good stores near Galway.)

Is there any way to slow down these guys? Just when I've found homes for all the juveniles, I find they've spawned again. It's getting to be a real headache! They're so beautiful I don't want to get rid of them, but I can't handle this much longer.

I've been experimenting with different fresh organic veggies for my plecos (clown plecos, rhino pleco, juvenile BNP, and common ottos). Fresh carrots were completely ignored. Fresh cucumbers are mostly ignored. Fresh spinach is a big hit. And boiled broccoli is somewhat of a hit (I boil it so it ...

Hi right back at ya, neighbor!
Welcome aboard the Planet!

Very cool! Kryptopterus vitreolus!

Oh wait.... I just found this thread which explains it!
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =9&t=37891

Out of curiosity, why are all the keepers of this fish listed under Kryptopterus aff. minor instead of Kryptopterus minor?
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/sp ... cies_id=16

I'm the only one under Kryptopterus minor.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/sp ... es_id=4573

That's a close match! The Hypoptopoma appears to have odontones which I haven't noticed on my fish. Maybe mine is too young, or maybe mine is female. Thanks for the reply! Here's another pic, showing a top-down view.

I purchased this at PetSmart in Hamilton, Ohio, USA when I realized it wasn't a common Otocinclus. The peppered pattern was a dead giveaway that this guy was special. It cost $2.29. :-) It was the only one in the tank. The others were common Otocinclus. Now I'm stumped trying to identify it ...

WOW! My rhino pleco better not become pugnacious like that. LOL.

I like Rhino pleco and Mango plecos. I'm getting more interested in small plecos like Otocinclus and Parotocinclus.... so my tastes may soon change.

Yay! I got to vote for Beff. <3

Congratulations on your baby ottos! i hope to get otocinclus fry too, some day!
your tank is well planted. it should be a good environment for the fry to grow.

I'm voting for my own write-in candidate: Beff!
After all, she might be a girl.

I made a couple of animations too. The first one is at 10 minute intervals. When I realized it was crawling up the glass, I re-setup my camera and took pics at 5 minute intervals but the darn thing crawled out of range of focus after 20 minutes. #outsmarted http://www.badbear.com/SlimeMold1.gif http ...

I just took a photo. The anemone-like one is now completely on the gravel and changing into spider-web shape.

http://www.badbear.com/SlimeMold.jpg

Basically I'm trying to learn if this is bad? or nothing to worry about?

Last night I discovered two colonies of slime mold in my 33g hex fish tank. One of them looked like a 2D cobweb spread over a few square inches of the glass where it meets the gravel. The other looked more like a 3D sea anemone no bigger than a cubic inch. In a few hours time, both of them had moved ...

I just inherited a 10yr old striped raphael cat along with an aquarium that once belonged to me. I was going to put him in my pleco/tetra tank while I set up the new old aquarium. But Wikipedia said they can eat small fish at night while they're active. Soooo.... to save my juvenile tetras he's ...

some green dragons just came up on Aquabid as well

Here's a unique piece I'm going to try as a pleco cave. the whole length is 10in(25cm). the length of the tube is 6in. this should be interesting!

mine are eating Hikari algae wafers, but only at night. so i feed them right before i go to bed.

...I use vertical caves made from either PVC or terracotta pots making sure to leave a lip below the entrance to keep eggs from getting kicked.... Larry Vertical or horizontal? I'm having a tough time imagining a vertical cave. A few days ago I started trying different shapes & sizes in my tank ...

So it seems American alligators have crossbred with European catfish!
Or maybe they've just been sharing ambush techniques?

For cave spawning plecos, has anyone studied which geometrical measurements are ultimately the most important in successful cave spawns? is it the size of the opening? the depth of the tunnel? is it critical for the tunnel diameter to remain constant? if the opening starts out small, then expands ...

Hey! It's great to see another Ohioan on here. I just joined a few weeks ago, and I agree with everything you said about how wonderful this online community is.

wow. i'm shocked. i thought this was a 55g tank, but i just measured the size and ran the calculations, and it's just 35g. the sides are 11.5 inches and height is about 24 inches.

Umm... totally forgot to mention Otocinclus. I raised several of those, and would LOVE to try spawning O. cocama. They're so cute!

I'm getting back into fish-keeping after a long time away. I'm amazed by all the changes in the hobby since I was last involved. Back then I was trying to spawn L-47's (mango pleco). So I do have some experience with oddball plecos, but I'm definitely rusty. I also raised clown plecos and rhino ...