Thnks a lot for the help

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Gavin

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Interested to see who uses Gelatine on a regular basis to make your own food tabs for your plecs?

I make a vege one and a shrimp mix one for my plecs and I add 3 teaspoons of Gelatine and 200mls of water to approx 3 cups of mix. I have been told tho that the Gelatine can be dangerous for ...

Has anyone noticed that the ventral fins on the males are more elongated than on the females also? There are some great pics of this here http://www.plecoforum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=238&PN=2 There is also some reports on spawns etc.

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Plan your work, then work your plan! I like it

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Knut Kjesbu has spawned them, I think the article is in Shane's world, not sure if he is in the UK tho?

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Nice Pics, what size sand is that you are using?

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Gavin

I agree a high wattage heater will "cook" a tank very quickly if it fails on. I either use 1 smaller one or in my bigger tanks 2 smaller ones, one at each end of the tank.

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I have a friend that has 4 of these and they do a very good job.

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I have 3 L204's that are 15cm. I have a feeling they are all males (as they are all hairy), but I would like some second opions?
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Where's Waldo? many hours have been spent by my kids looking for him also

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Is there an agreed way of raising TDS in a tank after it has been put through a "wet season" without the nitrate increasing to much?

I don't have to worry about it as the TDS in my normal tap water is fairly high, but I have been asked the question by some friends that have very soft water from ...

With a high quality UV Sterilizer you can drastically reduce the amount of free floating microscopic water borne bacteria, parasitic, fungal, viral, algae, and other unfriendly pathogens out of aquarium water by exposing it to UV light. This ultimatly reduces your bio load, however I have always ...

I have read quite a bit on different methods for increasing Oxygen levels and in particular O2 ppm in the aquarium for breeding. Interested to see if there are many people achieving 8-10ppm and if so the different ways in which you achieve it.

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Gav

24hrs is the maximum for my Pl*c's that only have a bit a couple of times a week. However with my Ancistrus I cut the Zucc into qtrs and leave it in the tank till it's gone, usually 24-36hrs.

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I have a colony of L168's. 4 of these are 12-13cm and have long odontodes 4-5mm sprouting from their pectoral fins and spines along their bodies which clearly puts them in the male category.

However the fish below (all approx 10cm) I thought maybe female also have small 2-3mm odontodes on their ...

Maccus are rather shy and timid, I have 5 of them and they have had various L Number tank mates over the years with no problems. That's been my experience anyway.

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I catch my big Pl*cos by hand as I have seen those bristles on the sides of their head ripped out by using nets. That said I don't think you will have any major problems if you can't see any visable damage

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I use sliding G clamps to hold pots and like K I use a angle grinder hacksaw would take you ages on a big hole. Using a hacksaw you will need to use a mansonary drill to make corners for your holes.

Local Hardware store (Bunnings) has a tile cutter mounted as a bench saw. Whole setup $89AUD ($70 USD) bargin! Goes through concrete and teracota pipes, tiles and pots like a hot knife through butter.

I only keep fish to support my Power Tool Habit

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I would keep them seperated for at least 6 weeks. As a general rule I don't mix my Ancistrus fry with any other fish. I move them to their own grow out tank.

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Karl

The "Orange Spot BN" that we have here has quite a few varients to it's shape size and color due to cross breeding over the years and I personally have seen 5 versions and the owners knew them by many different L numbers.

I have to agree with Yabb in that I don't know of anyone here in Oz ...

Do you have a heater in the tank? if so do you have a heater guard?

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Are you 100% that you have L043? If you have bought them locally from a fish shop or local breeder they will most prob be our own ver of the "Orange spot BN"

No one in Australia knows for sure if the Orange Spot Bristlenose we have here in AU is A. leucosticta, L110 or LDA45/L349 etc. Problem is no ...

Mine love Zucchini and Alge wafers and a piece of driftwood won't go astray

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These aren't too difficult, they will breed in normal tap water 25 degrees PH 7. 10% water changes weekly and 30% every 4th week and you shouldn't have to many problems.

Fish will need to be at least 2.5-3years old to be able to breed I have found. Feed zucc daily and sinking shrimp pellets twice a ...

Thanks for the info Janne I really appreciate the help.

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Have you tried some shrimp pellets? If you haven't give them a try I feed mine twice a week with OSI Shrimp pellets and they always have fat little bellies

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I would warm it up a bit to maybe 27degrees C and add some veg to their diet. I breed thousands of these and feed them 90% zucchini and 10% HBH Vege Flake and OSI shrimp pellets.

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Has anyone had any experience breeding these pl*co's? If so what sort of tank setup etc do you recommend?

Any help appreciated

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