As i am at my max with tanks i have raised many pandas by placing collected eggs (usually on plant leaves or breeding mop yarn)in a net breeder with a very small sponge filter and some floating plants right in a very stable main tank. Several days after the eggs hatch i sprinkle in crushed flake or ...

I got the Claros because they are small and they eat algae well- that they do!!. The males get a nice set of tentacles as well - and mine do turn kind of gold at times. It is perfect to keep a couple in a 20 gallon !! they are my only L-fish --- i am saddled with an abundance of Corys !! I may have ...

Just a FYI update on the LDA08 they spawned in late 2005. However I have just found 5 juveniles sticking to the glass yesterday. They are much smaller than the lone survivor of Spawn no. 1. I put in a few clay pots after Spawn no.1 so maybe they liked the new hidey places - the new juveniles are ...

That's great. I have a group of 4 Pandas (three ladies) that have spawned at least 30 times in the last 12 months - Im sure you will see them be very busy over next three months - My Pandas were very busy in late winter/spring 2005 once they got going. In fact they will be dropping more eggs tonight ...

Feed all fish a rotation of shrimp pellets, earthworm pellets, spirulina wafers, flake, krill bits, frozen brine shrimp, frozen bloodworm, and crunched-up pond snails (native to the tank!). I guess the smashed snails are the only live foods consumed.

Regards
FFG

Picked up a group of young ancistrus claro in the spring of this year. I distributed them throughout my group of tanks for algae control (excellent at that !). I did however keep 3 together to see if i could get a pair. As luck would have it, the group of 3 turned out to be 2 females and a male ...

New to posting in this forum - lurking around for a year picking up tips. Started with one tank - and now due to the info provided on this site i have seven tanks filled with Cory cats (panda, green aeneus, similis, sands', burgess, leopard) and a tank with LDA08. Here is some background - I have a ...