Just noticed that the guy selling these is now "no longer a registered user" on ebay!

They are in scotland, dont think im gona get them, i wolud hate to drive all the way up there and they are crap quality os sumthin like that.

Kev

Thats weird..is advert on ebay said the Item location was "Southampton, Hampshire" which is the other end of the country right? Or is that where he is ...

i dos'nt seem real so ive asked the seller a couple of question's.

Kev

Good luck! On their fist auction (6 zebras) they had an email address which clearly showed a domain name. I looked this up and found their contact detail which included a mobile no: I have yet to get anyone to answer this ...

I recently posted a thread on the zebra plec site about these fish being offered to certain retailers (me included) at silly prices (£20). I was also told huge stockpiles existed and were being used to breed. I was also told hormones were being used to "speed up" the breeding and growth process ...

Looks like L042 Rineloricaria cf. platyura.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/lo ... 1293_F.PHP

Thanks for that Dave

One of these turned up in a order of plecs we placed for the shop today but after many hours of research I still have very little information about them. Is there anyone who has any knowledge about the size they get to, eating habbits etc?

Any info would be greatly welcomed.

laurab5 wrote: Maybe you could post your tank setup for him.

I'm a she last time I looked!

Thank you Barbie for the LDA08 information! Is there any chance you could post a picture of the caves you use? I normally use the plain slate oblong caves for my BN's but the Claro's don't seem interested in them at all. One of my Albino BN males wont spawn in anything but a Spawning Cave that is ...

My queens breed on a regular basis but Claro's (LDA08) are doing diddly . I remember reading here a while ago that Barbie had bread both of these so if your around Barbie I would also like some information of breeding the Claro

The males don't come out at all when he has eggs.

Thanks for the ID guys

I have had this pleco for over a year and he was well over a year old when I got him. He is no about 5 inches and I was thinking he might be a L018/L177 but maybe you guys know more?

Anyway here are a couple of links to his pics.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b219/rivers00/Midas1.jpg

http ...

Thanks davidkozak for the infomation and great pictures! I have half solved the problem by putting the other Red Lizard Cats in a different tank so the female can't eat the fry. I will also use the turkey baster to collect the fry when they hatch.

I have had about 4 of these for a while and although I had planned to get them to breed at some point they seem to have determined that the time is right now :shock:

I am just setting up the fish house so everything is in temp accomodation and the Red Lizard Cats are currently sharing with 3 L260 ...

Barbie is spot on with the faded coloration. I have three breeding groups of these and the males are all dark and females faded. The marbled belly is said to be male however I have several females that I know have produced eggs with a marbled belly so its gets tricky sometimes

Nice pic How many off the eggs made it?

Great pics Barbie! How many eggs did they lay..seems like more than the 260?

I keep and breed C.sterbai and I have never seen anything like this in a healthy fish

Congratulations Barbie! It would be great if you could post pics as they develop into wrigglers

Hi Kyle

Firstly I have no idea of what is best to feed the fry on or when to seperate the fry but I am interested in what you water conditions were like when they breed. I have just got a trio of these with a veiw to breeding so any any info and pics of the fry would be great

Looks to me like Panaque Nigrolineatus (L190)

Just checked out Ablino Sterbai...that's them Many thanks!

I have just come home with three corys labeled Albino Metae but try as I may I can't find any info..so the label may be wrong :?

They has the same shape as a Metae would have but the color of its body is the same as the normal albino aeneus but ..the pelvic fin has a gold edge...sorry no pics. Can ...

F1's are regular Zebra's that have been tank bread with wild parents. Now if the F1's breed then the fry would be F2's....and so on.

I bet they are really pretty

I have a few of these and they are L052's. I would also say he is a male.

The L333's are available much cheeper here (£16.50):

http://www.fishcrazy.co.uk/forums/index ... ge=buyfish

I have had a few fish of this guy which I collected but he does post.

I use play sand in nearly all my tanks but again I have to agree an inch deep is plenty. I wash the sand over and over again untill the water runs clear and then when you add it to the tank it setles to the bottom and the tank water is crystal clear.

Don't know anything about the L136b but I have seen this in plecs that are stressed. Do they have plenty of cover?