Hi It looks like a really nasty case of finrot to me. Once it starts to get into the body it's almost impossible to treat. I'd isolate the fish and treat it with an anti-finrot treatment. It might be a good idea to treat the whole tank too just in case any of the other fish have got the early stages ...

How about filtration along the lines of a Koi pond with a small waterfall or fountain to help keep the water cool and oxygenated on the hottest days. The water could be pumped over and covered by slate or granite or some other cold stone. Also to make the most of any sun in the winter to help the ...

Hi A couple of thoughts: It could be that your redtail has gone off his food a bit because he is adjusting to his new home. When I bought mine he took a couple of weeks to really get his appetite back and even started shedding his skin even though the water qualilty was fine and the tank water was ...

I'd cut the wood when the sap is down, ie in the autumn or winter. It will take longer to dry out now that the sap has risen. Not sure how relevant this is to wood destined to go in a tank of water but it makes sense to me

They look too dark to be L66's or to put it another way they look totally different to my L66's which have thicker white lines.

They look like the picture of L260 in Datz, perhaps the younger ones have different markings? I'm also wondering if the white stripes are too numerous for L333?

Glad it amused you natefrog :D That sailfin was about a foot long not incl his tail. Thought he was going to take the end off my little finger one time I tried to pin him down to get him back in the tank, clamped his fins to his side trapping my finger... not something you do a second time when ...

As far as I can tell most plecs are teritorial to some degree. My male bristlenose can't stand Angelfish for some bizarre reason and used to swim up into the water column to have a stab at them... The females were ok most of the time but got really stroppy when they were ready to breed, chasing ...

They're fantastic fish, I've got 3 and they're out and about all the time, really active fish who aren't shy at all, mine have even stopped shooting off to hide everytime they see movement outside the tank. Try fixing a slice of courgette in the tank, they love it! They do need wood in their diet ...

My L204's and L66's behave much in a similar way to your Gold Nuggets... I have 3 L204's, 2 that are a good 3" and a baby thats about 1.5". They're currently in the community tank and are out and about day and night totally unperturbed by the chaos of the other fish or all the lights being on. The ...

It's certainly not a Gibbiceps, they have distinct markings on their bellies, much like on the top of the body only paler brown splots with a creamier background. The pic shows a belly much more like on a common bristlenose, which looking at the mouth on it, I would say is nearer the mark. However a ...

will Mastacembelids be affected by sterazin? i know they aren't scaleless, but many websites report that they are sensitive to medication, although this may be because they believe them to be scaleless. could anyone help me with this, as i may have to treat the tank for gill flukes. If you're not ...

I've got 3 L66 and one which I think could possibly be a L236 (it was in a big batch of L66's but retains it's white stripes which the L66 tend to turn a silvery grey, and also the black stripes are less). Anyway I have found that they get bolder as they get more settled, the one I've had for ...

No one is saying that you have to provide your fish with the perfect environment, that would be beyond the realms of anyone short of an Amazonian land owner. What people are saying is that to get the best out of your fish you should CONSIDER eventually providing them with a bigger tank. If your arro ...

You're making too many assumptions. I extensively research ALL fish before i buy them. I know damn well what i'm getting into. Its not people like me you should worry about, its people who buy their first fish tank AND the fish on the same day. I DO provide substrate, I DO have MANY chunks of ...

2 red tail sharks in that size tank? :shock: I'm surprised they haven't killed each other, they're highly territorial and don't usually tolerate any other fish that looks even remotely like them let alone another of the same species... They must be busy bullying everything else in the tank which ...

BUT, some people aim to recreate the fishes natural environment, which, even with the best efforts, is not nearly as "home" to them as the wild because they are in an aquarium to start out with (this applies to large fish btw). Others, (myself included), aren't aiming to recreate their natural ...

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The females don't have any interest in tending the eggs and the male will stay fanning them until they hatch, he won't tolerate any other fish near the eggs. There might be some babies about though, they do stay very well hidden in the nest until they lose their yolk sac or fall out.

Yes they have been bred, only recently and I only know of one person having accomplished it.

He has had more than one spawn however.

Do you have any more info to add to that or is that your total knowledge of the subject at hand; edifying as it is?

Shane mentions that we know of only ONE aquarist that actually build that 20,000+ gallon aquarium for his giant catfish. ONE! My cousin built a tank across the entire wall of his living room to house his fish. It was at least 7000gal/31780L probably bigger. I'd call that a substantial tank, maybe ...

They can wedge themselves into surprisingly tight cracks n crevices in bogwood, they also blend in well. I once thought I'd lost mine as he'd disappeared, I took the tank apart, eventually heard him croaking away in a wedge in the bogwood that I'd taken out of the tank while searching, he was fine ...

I peel the zucchini (I don't like the idea of pesticide residues leaching into the tank and despite what governments try to make you believe residues do stay on the skin even after washing... take Round-Up weedkiller as an example, that will stay active in the soil for up to 2 years so I don't ...

I found a good time to move my bristlenose broods was when the fry were reasonably well developed but still with some egg sac, they were strong enough to grip onto the vertical crevice the male had chosen and he would press himself tightly on top of the brood also making sure none fell out. I put a ...

Room temperature is probably OK if you have it fairly constant. Unfortunately, a windowsill in your average English home may not satisfy that quite adequately, and it was a small tank to make problems worse. It wasn't right when it came into the tank, but rather when the weather got a bit chilly ...

Not sure what you define as cool water and bad for their health. When I first got "Gus" [misnamed due to lack of sexing features at time of purchase], the mother of my three batches of bristlenoses, I kept her in with my goldfish in an unheated tank. That was a bit too cool (Gus was laying upside ...

The ones I had varied, in the day they were more yellow going whiter at night and early in the morning. The larger male was very clearly black and white but with an attractive yellow tint to his fins all the time. When he died the next largest male went from being more yellowy and black to black and ...

Hi, I've raised hundred's and hundred's of bristlenoses and they are extremely hardy even at the size yours are. I found that the male would keep them in his wedge of bogwood until they were about 3/8 inch in size and had used up their yolk sacs. They'd fall out at various intervals though but would ...

They've all died :( with the exception of the L204 and the bristlenose who are both still in perfect health. I don't know quite what to do with those two though as I'm afraid that they might have become carriers for whatever it was, if thats possible? I might put a few neons in with them and if they ...

Thanks for the info and advice. The nitrates are as near to zero as it's probably possible to get, it comes out on the lowest reading on the test kit... I do make water changes every day or at least every other day if I miss a day. Some of the fish have developed sunken stomachs and eyes but they've ...

I haven't tried disecting any of the fish, did think about it but am a bit on the squeamish side about guts. The deceased are currently in a plastic bag in the freezer. The worm that I did see was white/grey and fairly chunky for it's length. It wouldn't loosen it's grip on the fish at all when I ...

The Sterazin treatment so far seems to be doing no good whatsoever... Lost 2 more L134's and an L129 yesterday. The remaining fish have stopped feeding and are basically very poorly, they do seem to make some recovery (the paralysed ones seemed to have made a recovery but it was brief and they're ...