THanks to everyone for helping. I picked up my 3 synos yesterday.They are a bit smaller then i had imagined but still bigger then i can get from the stores. I have them in a 20gH tank right now with 2 L.ocellatus. I will keep them in the 20g untill i'm sure they are doing well. I found some 2" pipe ...

Thank you, I will be getting them tomorrow and they will be staying in my 20g Q tank for a while, jsut ot make sure they are ok. I will see what i can find as far as stuff to make caves. I have some small pots and can probably find some 2" pvc pipe. If i make the PVC caves how long to they have to ...

No i knew you said 3cm(i am in canada so we know what these are ) but when i got there all i saw was really skinny pipe and the 3" ones. PLus i didn't think a 3 1/2"syno could fit in a 3cm pipe?

I"ll see what i cn find,my dad may have some in the garage.

ALright, then how big should i get the pipe? I have never seen a fully gown syno.petricola so i'm not sure exactly how big they get and how small a space they can fit in. Should i get 2" pipe? In the tank right now i have 3 caves made out of 4"pipe(its supporting the rocks).I guess i'll go back and ...

ok I went out nad bought some PVC pipe last night. I got the 3" diameter kind.Is this agood size for making caves? How long should i cut it? I should make 3,one for each syno?

The red empress are Protomelas taeniolatus. I was thinking of trying to find a female for my P.electra but i havent' seen any around locally(all they carry are males).

Thanks for reminding me about the PVC pipes, I was planning on doing that.

Thanks good to know i could always add mroe without them picking on the new one.

So what do you think of my stocking level? Am i under? over? I dont' want my fish feeling cramped.

I have been thinking of adding some syno petricola to my 90g hap/mbuna tank. A friend is selling 3 of his, they are 3 1/2". I was wondering how often they actually come out from hiding. DO they come out during the day? I dont' want to spend lots of money on a fish i will never see. ALso do you think ...

Thank you, I didn't think that the needed it like some of the wood eating pleco do.

I was wondering if bristlenose plecos need driftwood in their diet like some other plecos? I"m aksin becuase on another board a member said that they do but i have BN plecos in all my tanks and some have dirftwood and some don't and they are all healthy.

So do bristlenose plecos need driftwood?

I posted a similar question at a african messageboard about my 10g shellie tank and they responded that a bristlenose pleco would get severely picked on my the shell dwellers and would not be worth adding to the tank. If you are having algae problems i think you are going ot have to clean it out by ...

Thank you, I don't know what species they are as they were just sold as albino bristlenoses. 2 of them are growing quite fast and the 3rd one is the runt of the group and looks like he hasn't grown at all since i got them. Hopefully i will be able to sex them soon as i want to tranfer them to ...

I was wondering when bristlenose plecos start getting their bristles? I bought 3 albino BN plecos in hopes of getting a pair.Right now 2 are about 1 1/2" and one is 1"(the runt of the pack).

I'm wondering how much longer it will take before I can see bristles?

Hi, I'm jsut wondering if the rubbernose plecos i see in the LFS are captive bred or wild caught? I know some people have bred them but i'm not sure if they are bred on a big scale like bristlenose or common plecos are.

Thanks, hopefully they will turn out to be 2 males and 1 female.So in the end i have 2 pairs. I'm not too concerned about whether they spawn or not, I just want to have 2 and thought a pair(m/f) would be better then 2 of the same gender.

Anyone else keep more then one?

I got 3 baby(1") albino bristlenose plecos. I'm curious if 2 male BN or 2 female BN can live in the same tank? Right now i'm growing them out in a 15gal but when they are older i'm going to split them up into 2 tanks. I have a 58gal planted tnak which already has a female regular BN pleco and my ...

Thanks for all the replies, I guess i will add some driftwood. Are rusty plecos usually out during the day? Or are they more shy/nocturnal

Well i'm trying to get a hold of a rusty pleco, My LFs is seeing if they can order me one next time he makes his orders. I was wondering if rusties need driftwood like some other plecos do? Should i find some ot add to my tank?

I'm not going to be buying any,Just wanted to know what they were.I hate when the stores only have common names and can't even fidn the scientific name if you ask for it.

I'm still on my hunt for a rusty pleco(l77) but i jsut called the LFS and he jsut sold the last one:(

The blue spotted pleco did look like that, but its base color was more dark brown/black. Is 60$can a ok price,seems a bit much?

I was at the LFs and saw soem really nice plecos.One was called a mustard spot black pleco and the other was a blue spotted pleco.Both were about 4" and cost 60$can. I can't find any info on them by usign the common names and the guy at the LFS didn't know anyhting.He said all plecos are the same so ...

thanks, Any others? I really like the rusty pleco.i hope i can find one around here.i don't think i have ever seen one.

why doesn't it let you type cichlid?

I personally haven't been able to save any fry but then again i wasn't really trying,I jsut left then in teh tank and being a community tank they got eaten. But the breeder i got them from supposedly breeds them in our tap water. I got mine through a friend of the breeder and that is what she said ...

Yeah i have had my angels and rams breed. I got my pair of rams from a local breeder and he says he doesn't change his water either(regular tap water). If it is because BN are tank bred they work better in a wide range of conditions then what are some otehr plecos(besides commons) that are tank ...

well i know you should keep fish in the same kind of water that they come from but I have angels,rams and apistos that breed in my water(ph7.8 kh6). Aren't some plecos supposed to be hardier then then fagile fish like rams? Bristlenose plecos come from lower ph but are routinely used in african ...

I'm sorry for al the posts but I'm really getting interested in keep plecos. There doesn't seem to be info that too reliable so i thought i would ask the experts. Is there any fish atlases that jsut deal with plecos?(i have the aqualog L numbers, but find tha teven it has different answers then ...

but this pleco is different then a common pleco right?

I was wondering if soembody could tell me a bit more about this pleco. I saw some at the LFS and came home to search the web but didn't find much/any info,only pics. It also seems that the common name trinidad pleco goes for a bunch of scientific names.How big does it get? any general info. thanks

how big is that tank? he has way more africans then i do even in my 90gal(i only have 8 and one pleco!)

what kind fo plecos is he keeping in his african tank? I will be going to my LFS to see what they recomend later in the week