i like jaguar cats

i`d have to say my all time fav is the tiger shovelnose i love um....
but i dont have space to keep one....
maybe my pool

so that would mean a drop in water hardness is what made ur plecos spawn....
and that would be correct with what i have read....

i will show when mine spawn...

yay

rapid breathing in catfish is often caused by parasites and i work at a lfs store and i asure you i have some pretty good advice.. and i would not recomend undergravel filters for tons of reasons........ they get clogged.... catfish like to burrow in gravel, sometimes getting stuck in undergravels ...

rapid breathing in catfish is often caused by parasites and i work at a lfs store and i asure you i have some pretty good advice.. and i would not recomend undergravel filters for tons of reasons........ they get clogged.... catfish like to burrow in gravel, sometimes getting stuck in undergravels ...

ur fish has a parasite of some sort


he has a rapid gill rate correct???
sunken body and eyes????

also has he been itching himself on rocks and things at all???

i will post pics but he about 5 inches
and nice colors

commojns usually arnet that shy

it shouldn`t be to much of a problem

lol i got stung b4 to.... by just about every fish that has a spine..... fresh and salt my worst experience was a scorpion fish sting..... the lionfish who got me got me good....my whole arm felt like it was in a fire but the scorpion fish whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i didnt forget ...

lol

just be glad its that kind of a parasitic fish.....
i`d hate for someone to get the one parasitic catfish from the amazon whos attrated to urine, and
well flush him......

aww man he is a fat little guy huh.....

put him in a tank of slim fast

nice fish

thats why i said he should bathe him in some macalite green,meleafix, or w/e u prefer treated tank water for 10-20-30 seconds maybe twice a day for a couple days i really kind of just blew that reply off though wit out explaination........ so if ur tank is infected thats when i would put medicine in ...

as of right now it looks like an external parasite.....

so i would try to keep it external
umm treat ur tank with rid ich or some other type of external invertabret killer stuff
thats if its in the tank....

if there isnt any others around u could bath the fish in mediicine

maybe some macalite green

it looks like a mini gun shot wound.....
quit giving fire arms to fish......

its a farowella speices

and yes they love algea

it`s their perfered food

yea just the biowheel i think there great as long as u maintain them it is a pretty heavy load of fish but thats what bio wheels are good for.... they can handle a sudden heavy load of ammonias and nitrites really well i might use a canister filter for like a wuick clean up job.... but yea i trust ...

yea i`m impatient what finniper said is very good advice..... and its almost fool proof...... but there is other ways..... listen to my sucsse story i have a 55 gal tank it sprung a leak...a bad leak.... immediatly i filled a 35 gallon bin up with water hooked my filter on which was a bio wheel 330 ...

i`d say no written maximum size is really realiable....

your fish can grow over or under

every fish iv`e had just about grow over what there suposed to get by quite a bit and iv`e kept alot.....


it`s all about water changes

now i have


the article was very informative thanks .....


anyone else have any sucsess with these guys

blood worms sometimes cause internal parsites i have heard..... i recomend rinsing them in warm to hot water quick b4 feeding.... and also brine shrimp is like prune juice to fish..... it helps clean out ther digestive track.... so incorporating that into thier diet wouldnt be a bad idea... feeding ...

thats great post pics

maybe its the angle

because its tail is slightly bent

rubber lip pleco, bull dog pleco, chubby pleco..

right???
i would of thought female because of the slight buldge after the pectoral fins
but maybe i`m wrong..?!!!!!

ive heard this happen from a couple people but still have no idea what causes it.... im pretty sure its an internal problem be it bacterial, an infection, or parisitic.... one story i heard was that a common pleco was placed in with another common pleco.... they both shortley died for what it looks ...

i belive i hav a male and female..... i have set up a 40 breeder with sand substrate and a nice current and a bunch of rocks with caves everywhere i need some tips and advice and i need to know if this set up is ideal any help advice or experince will help i`m planning on feeding them black worms ...