Thanks for the replies.
I am in the UK and would need to order these meds overseas.
I posted a topic on Ian's site (Corydoras World) and he suggested trying some Primafix plus a little salt, i am going to go with that just now.
When i got back from work today i found two dead, but the others look ...

I have a 4ft x 1ft x 1ft tank, with an Eheim 2224 external canister filter, and a internal fluval and two sponge filters running on it.
The tank is 25 degrees with soft water, ph of 7.6, kh 1 & gh 1, the tank has some oyster shells in it.
It has been running for nearly a year and was originally set ...

To me, a 3G tank is too small to hatch out fry in, a 10G tank minimum would be much better, the bigger the tank the more stable the water, and the best results comes from leaving the eggs/fry in with the parents.
It sounds like they are breeding in a community tank and then you are moving the male ...

I have put the fish in a hospital tank and i am treating it with Waterlife's Myxazin.

Sorry, edited the first post to help show the fish better and also added what sex i think the fish are.
Some pictures show the same fish, i took the pictures with my phone and over half of them were too poor to use.

There is five fish used in the pictures, the group pictures did not turn out well.
Apart from one fish which i bought and is a bit older, the fish are all around four or five years old, grown on from fry.
I think there is one female in the group, but looking at the group in the tub it looked like ...

I found this zebra with a growth on its head when i was removing them for some photos for sexing.
It was in a group of six adult zebras, and it looks like there is mainly males, possibly only one female among the six.
There has been evidence of aggression in the tank on and off over time, five have ...

A point to note, is L46 have never been legal to export from Brazil and still are not.
It was Janne that said this on a thread somewhere, L46 have allways been and still are on the banned list !

http://www.zebrapleco.com/articles/2_L46_from_start_to_finish.php

The article above is the way i sex my hypancistrus and it is a lot easier when sexing adults as they tend to show the different characteristics more prominently.
i,e,
Body shape - mature females usually are more plump than males ...

Barbie, i never had a look at their stomachs.
What are you looking for when looking at their stomachs ?

I have never really looked at these fish since i got them a couple of years, i just kept there water good and fed them well.
The only reason i have started to look at them is that i also have a wild caught group of nine, that are around three years old and they are showing signs of starting to ...

They are all L260.
Half of them are my mine from my old pair of L260 that breed a couple of years ago.
Also a couple of years ago i got three fry from two reputable dealers, and over a couple of years i lost two.

When they are all in the tank and settled they all look like 260, i have seen L411 ...

Edited - To organise the fish into the two different species they are !


The following fish are just over two years old and are between 2" to 2.5" in size.
What sex do you think they are;

These fish are L411:
Fish 1:
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa238/AndrewC777/Sexing/1-A.jpg
http://i200 ...

Mike_Noren wrote: Latin names are intimidating and difficult to pronounce. Common names (which is what L-numbers really are) are not.

It's not all about money, Mike couldn't have said it better.

I am planning on buying a camcorder to video my fish with but with so many to choose from i am unsure what one to get.

When filming, before lights out i am going to sit a strip light above the tank and leave the strip light on, and also leave the camcorder sitting on a stool or tripod in front of ...

I keep a few corydoras similis with my zebras as dither fish, i read similis are a cory that don't mind the warmer waters zebras like.
I don't keep any dither fish with my queens, as i find a group of queens pretty active for a hypancistrus and i also find they are quite voracious eaters, who are ...

bigbird wrote:yup RIP mate. Just cant believe it. Just teaches us to live life , speak our mind, share the knowledge and laugh. RIP Mate. cheers jk

Can't agree more.

I just bought a subscription to the Amazonas Magazine.
Can anybody tell me how many editions of the English version of the magazine have been released ?
And do they advertise previous editions of the magazine, so that if there is an article in it that you really want to read, you can get it ?

Time between breeding for pairs of hypancistrus is really random.
I have a pair of L46 that can breed for two or three months, and then not breed for six months, even up to a year.
Hypancistrus tend to have spurts of breeding and then a rest period inbetween breeding which is a random period of time ...

These are the same fish in this post, just a bit older and fed better.
I put the two largest fish in a tub today to see what sex they are, as they look to have come on well, but the pattern of each one looks different.
I know pattern isn't the best way to id a hypancistrus, but they have simular ...

I buy my frozen fish food in batches of 20 packets every few months.
The frozen fish food arrived today around 4pm practically thawed, and it was put straight into the freezer to re-freeze it.
But tonight there is a strong smell from the fish food in the freezer, not like it's went bad, it may even ...

Taxonomy studies will surely prove how close from each other these fish are...
I am aware of 2 Hypancistrus will be considered as one...now there are a few other
Cheers
Yann

Hello Yann
At present, is studies of species of hypancistrus being done ?
Can you tell me what two hypancistrus species ...

I was sent a link to a L260 profile on L-Welse; http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.l-welse.com%2Freviewpost%2Fshowproduct.php%2Fproduct%2F275&act=url

The interesting bit is the line just below the pictures of 260s ...

I have a group of b&w L260 growing on in one tank, and this group of yellowy/goldy L260 in another tank.
Would you mix the the colour varients ?

The only thing i would say about diet, is this fish were just imported around a month ago, and have lived on a wild food before then, i'm not sure they have been in captavity long enough to be influenced by what we feed them ?
Not sure what the shop the had was feeding them, but i have had them for ...

I recently bought a group of L260, but now that the fish are settled, they are turning out to have a black colour with a yellowy/goldy patterning, while any L260 i have kept before have had a black body with white patterning.

Is this the same as L333, it depends on catch location whether you get a ...

I decided against lifting the slabs just now and i am trying baited food that will hopefully get carried back to any nests and kill them.
The brown powder around the bottom of the hut is diatomaceous earth, great when it's dry, but not as good when it has rained.
It will be interesting to see the ...

Thanks for the help.
The ants have receded to only a few i am finding each day.
I have a large task ahead of me this weekend, removing the sink and storage tubs, cleaning the hut and filling every gap in the hut with silicone.

Still not sure if the ants nest was in my hut walls or it was just ...

It hasn't always been like this, i have noticed it more over the past three or four months.
I am not a regular poster so i can't be exact when it started happing.
If it's just me having hassle, no worries, it was just with it happening each time i post now, i was wondering if it was also happening ...

I tried using my laptop and it was just the same as what happens with my desktop pc.
Maybe it is just my internet connection.

I was at the bottom of the page and hit enter twice to create a space and was going to paste in the new paragraph, but after hitting enter the second time, my viewing ended ...