Ik keep my group of 6 L260's at about 85F with the PH @ 6.5 Kh @ 2~3 and low conductivity but I havn't seen any spawning yet, I just moved them from a 80x40x40cm tank to my 121x55x60cm last weekend. They look a lot happier and scout the sandgrounds a lot more during the day then in the old tank...

I used to have them in my smallest tank (60l) but for some reason the water went bad and most of the fish died, except for the Nannostomus.. so I moved them to my L260 tank where I did not have any fish in the upper layer.. so with the merging of the tanks they moved along. They form a happy school ...

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I never saw the Synodontis sp. before in a LFS overhere... I looks like a nice tankmate but I checked the spec sheet, to bad is african because I only have 2 south-american tanks.

I bought a 2nd hand tank with some fish..

a Loricariidae:

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And what 5 of these are?:

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Eheim has a "Surface suction extractor" partnr 3535



I use it once every 2 weeks, I drop the thing in on a spare filter to clean the surface. Be careful with strong filters like the 2326 I have, its sucks too hard.

I've got 3 Otocinclus macrospilus in my 15g tank, all are very alive and eating well (cucumber, zuchinni and algea(wafers)). But one has something stange, most part of the bottom of the head is tinted bloodred, it even shows thru his normal color when you look from above..

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Nice idea

You've got my best wishes for this batch

I just got them today, someone picked them up or me in a distant FS. They were almost white when I first saw them but when I let them get used to the water in my tank the color came back bit by bit, and within an hour in the tank the color was like on the pics. I noticed that they were a bit skinny ...

Is this a positive ID of the Otocinclus Cocama (Zebra Oto)

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It is the best match of the otos listed in the cat-elog but the line over the side of the body is more ...

A fish who is build to live in acidic water can't live in alkaline water, the main reason why the fish doesn't like it is that it's skin not build for alkaline water.. it will get (maybe non-visible) skin problems.

I have 6 L260s in a similar tank, if you supply enough hiding places around the tank they will be fine

One advice, get a good filter with double to triple the capacity to get good flow.. I have an eheim 2224 on the tank.

My other inhabitants: mikrogeophagus altispinosa and otocinclus zebra.

My latest and last addition to the L260/mikrogeophagus tank:

3x Otocinclus Zebra 8)

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Who can spot the L260? :d

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Josh_Mcfadden wrote:Great looking tank way to go

Thanks

The (cheap) spoons I use are RVS stainless steel.

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Mine loves cucumber and zuccini

The striping is too different from a L316 or L333.. it looks more like a L270.. but the eyes and head don't match

On a floating cucumber

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Some posted this on a dutch forum

Sexing Males slightly bigger, longer interopercular, pectoral odontodes than those on the female. Males also have plate odontodes. The hard ray of the pectoral fins are broader, head wider and longer. Males from this species also seems to have a belly that is marble (totally or partially), females ...

I've found one of those rare species too. I observed numerous times and found the species has the stange behavoir of sleeping on top of the aquarium

Feeding is just like the other species I have.. it loves algeawafers

Durlänger wrote:Nice Tank
But never give metall in the tank as seen at the feeding photo

A teaspoon should be fine.. if the metal would dissolve into the water we'd all have metal poisonings from stirring our coffee.. AFAIK.

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does not work

If your keeping fish since 1968 I don't think your a n00b ;)

welcome

I tried the catelog and the search but nothing came out...

I have 3 Otocinclus in mij 10G tank, one has a noticable smaller tummy than the other 2:

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(I'll try to get better pics..)

Otocinclus flexilis' species ...

The common pleco (L23) gets about 10" max...

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or the Pterygoplichthys joselimaianus, but I don't think those are very common in your LFS

As far as I can see Otocinclus sp. 3 fits Schaeffers description and photos of hoppei perfectly, but without having the fish in my hand and looking at it under a microscope I wouldn't dare say for sure.


IMHO..

The Hoppeï and the sp3 are different as you can see on the pictures, the Hoppeïs ...

My P. sabaji L75 seems to like tomato too, I was eating a hambuger and had some slices of tomato left over... even my Black Ghost knifefish ate from it slice :P

About the shynes... I've got the Sabaji for about a month now and it is more alive during the day, but still a bit scared when something ...

Nice breeding tanks... but takes up a lot of space

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