here is what it looks like. My pop-up blockers are turned off.

I am using Internet Explorer 6.0.2xx, and I can see the row of buttons across the top from Home/CotM/Cat-elog/etc...all the way across to ZebraPleco.com. However I can not see the other row of buttons that allow me to check my PMs/Search/LogOut. When I hit my refresh button on the browser, I see the ...

I will have to guess, but the rigid tube is about 2.75" diameter. The tubing is about 3/4" Outer diameter. One thing I should mention is that the hardware store from which I bought the tubing had a thin-wall tubing and a thickwall tubing. The thinner wall collapsed from the suction pressure, so I ...

It has been 15 years, but I still visit. The pool filter sand is good because it is somewhat grainy. The real fine "play" sand is what stirs up easily, I had some for a while and ended up taking it all right out and pouring it into the garden! As long as you get the right diameter hose on your ...

Shane, I went to the home depot I know of, I see it on the freeway to Nualcapan, but was not able to find a fish store...perhaps I had the wrong home depot...and I did not have my local friends with me so I was not as brave an explorer as I could have been. Next time I will have a local with me to ...

Hi, from a former michigander.........pour about 1-2 inches in a bucket, and rinse water thrugh it....the rinse water will be cloudy, keep stirring, emptying, and refilling the bucket, until the water stays clear. Then you can dump that sand into the tank. Then put another couple inches of sand in ...

I have had the veils for 10 months, and the others at least 12 months. They are from different sources. The veilfins are all from one a particular local importer/breeder. The 3 adult albinos are from 3 separate sources so that I could get some fresh genes. All the short fins, piebalds included, are ...

I have 2 tanks, one with mostly albino regular fin bristlenose and a couple piebald browns, and the other tank is strictly long fin brown adults (7 fish in a 40 gallon breeder). I put a large piece of Zuchini in each tank. After a day the piece in the albino tank had been devoured, whereas the piece ...

I have brown veilfins, and short fin albinos. I was wondering if I crossed them, what the resulting fry would be, i.e. % of albino, veilfin, etc. I'm not sure if veil is a recessive trait just like albino would be?

I need some guidance from those of you who are both passionate and knowledgeable about the world of the common bristle-nose. First off, I am very strongly against any sort of hybridization or cross breeding in my tanks of 'other fish'. I would never let any fry leave my tank unless I was sure 100 ...

I've also noticed on the fry swimming around that some are real orange and others are more of a clear pink color. Could be the food, I put in pellets and zuchini and algae tabs and other stuff, so maybe one prefers one kind of food over another.

I have a pair of Albino BN. I got them from two different trustworthy (and always high quality) independant breeders and after a long courtship, they have produced batches of fry. So, I have a couple of batches of fry growing out. I have noticed that some of the fry have large triangle shaped caudal ...

Thanks Shane. I will look for Celtics. I always like to try the local brew and I haven't found anything notable in MC. A nice draft Guinness would be good "comfort food" while travelling. I think I know the Home Depot you are talking about. I wish I could get a couple bags of 30 Tetras for a planted ...

I am thinking about exploring an angle based on my "special dietary requirements".

The problem with the paperwork is that I would buy the fish on a whim as i see them on a trip, I would not know ahead of time what i was going to buy. It would be a spur of the moment purchase decision based on what I see available. I certainly could not plan weeks in advance.

Has anyone put a bag of fish in your carry-on luggage? What if you go to a shop while you are on travels and see something you have to own? What happens now with the restrictions on liquids?

Shane: I go there every 10-12 weeks for business travel. Whenever I travel anywhere, I like to go to the local shops and zoos to see what kinds of fish are available. In Mexico City, I usually stay in the "Polonco" neighborhood across from the zoo. I have not gone to that zoo due to time constraints ...

Going on a work trip to Mex City. Anyone know places to go, either zoos, city aquariums, shops, or collection sites that are close enough to take 3-4 hours of my work day to visit?

I see there are some yellow labs in there,....so if the labs are old enough to hold, they are big enough to pick on a scrawny little 1.5" BN. I have a tank with yellow labs (african c***lids) and only keep 2 large 3" brown BN, and I still worry about their safety.

I doubt that I'll be able to get a specific location, so perhaps I just have to grow them larger, take better photos, and see what I get.

I sent you a pm, but I don't think there are more for sale, if that is what you are interested in, the plecos came along for the ride with his other SA fish........

Welcome......Where in Illinois? And what kind of Pleco? Try the south American forum for questions....

And I forgot to mention that I have a piece of driftwood in every tank that has bristlenose in it. I also feed several kinds of algae tablets and catfish pellets, most are vegetable based, one is a shrimp pellet.

Yes, numerous times. On that particular page, they kinda look like this one: http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?image_id=1831 As for the darker black ones, they are close to this one: http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?image_id=5559 All are from the sp(3) page. Is this ...

Attached are a few photos of a BN I have. I received about 8 from a friend who collected fish from South America (he colletcs c***lids, and he often imports them, and he gets some bristlenose as a bonus. Two of the fish I have are dark, almost black with distinct spots. The other 6 are similar to ...

I feed mine slices of zuchini, and sometimes a piece of cantelope melon.

Hey Mats; I looked at the link to your aquarium photos, and your shot of "Warren's face" looks like the closest photo to the 5-6 brown BN I have in a tank that I can't identify. What is he? I was thinking my fish are either "Orange-spot" or maybe Red-Spot. I am trying to get some decent photos to ...

I have a batch of albino BN fry in my tank, this group has me confused, I notice 2 distinct sizes of fish, small and extra small...is this a male/female difference? The smaller ones also seem a little more white/clearer than the large ones. As I sit here writing this.....I have a second female in ...

That photo screen shot is exactly what is happening to me. I belive we might have a new firewall here, since I keep getting these error messages about "a run-time error running scripts, do I want to debug?" So, I guess I must live with it.

Is this just my computer? I have browsed this site for over a year. Just last week, the two top menu bars on this page (with buttons such as Home, CotM, Cat-elog, Shane's world) are overlapping the botoom row, and I can't see the bottom row of the menu, except for the bottom 1/4 of the boxes. I have ...