Hello catfish keepers :D :D :D Im considering on adding apple snails into my large comunity of discus, sorubim limas and plecs,goldie and peppermint, with one wild severum and a platydoras costatus. i know what they say about apple snails and plague proportion but if i keep an eye out for the eggs ...

Defiantly a good way to feed them, my discus and severum also find it amusing. It?s always a good thing to give the fish something new and unfamiliar to work out in the confines of aquaria. I also use a tetra tablet contains lots of vitamins and sticks to the glass, a good way to get timid fish more ...

Thanks apistomaster for the bag idea for the plecs, sorry for long reply my computor dosnt always notify me of a reply. have tried the idea and it definatly works, thanks again.

ben

Hello catfish keepers :D :D :D :D :D I have been fortunate to have been asked to design, stock and maintain a big corner tank the dimensions are 8ft x 5.6 x 5.6 x 2.6 haven?t worked out the volume quite yet but I think that?s somewhere around 150 gal to 200 gal. At the moment im getting an idea of ...

hello catfish keepers :D :D :D I have a large tank with limas discus and plecs and would like to add 3 Dianema urostriatum the flagtail porthole cat. obversly the limas would be the main risk but would they eat a flagtail if it was full size. the limas are 20cm and i keep a peppermint pleco of 7cm ...

yep definatly better to have them eating than not, i had mine at a fairly young age which gives you more of a chance of swapping them from live in the wild to to prepared. the prawn on maybe a teaspoon mite work quite well as for a place where they cant get thats pretty hard with them being slender ...

limas definatly a good choice, a very sociable cat best kept in a pair atleast, i have two and there really fun to watch and highly inteligant.

Hello catfish keepers :D :D :D :D :D I keep a 450 with two limas at 15cm along with four discus a 10cm goldie plec l14 and a 10cm titanicus pleco l273, the problem i have is my limas contrary to what i have read about them being piscivores are mega greedy the slightist hint of even small discus ...

hope he does too. seems alot better now gill movement slowed and moving a lot more so hope he takes the food, am soaking bloodworm in garlic juice. nothing worse than losing a great plec, lost a full size wormline peckolita in my old tank once was my fav soooooo gutted.

gill rate was farirly fast so i added a big air stone and it seems to have slowed down. on inspection of the plec yesterday morning i noticed something not good, a peppering of amber to whitish small grains forming which was definatly velvet, checked my water is all fine. so must be stress from the ...

Yep my temp is 28 in my tank and 28 in quarantine. im finding this plec very strange he seems to sit in one spot all day even if its exposessed,i know some plecs dont move much like a medussa plec but this one dosnt even flinch when u get close to the tank. also ive noticed he sitts on the rear fins ...

Hello Catfish keepers :D :D :D I have just aquired an l273 titanicus pleco over the net. Ive had him in quarentine for 3 days so far, seems o.k i wouldnt say hes got a hollow belly but looks a little on the thin side :? , have been adding bloodworm but havnt noticed him so far taking anything, thats ...

Flying foxs are pretty lazy when they grow up, try a siamese algae eater, Crossocheilus siamensis, its always hungry for algea and unlike the other cyprinid algea eaters are good temperd later on in life, i went through three fish all labled as it before i got the difinate real one, but it was well ...

keeping my tank at 28 at the moment would that be o.k for l273 or should i drop it a little.

ben

Read in an article in pfk by Julian Dignall on panaque nigrolineatus that they rasp on the acrylic, the goldie plec also has teeth although not like the rasping teeth of panaque which are much shorter desighned for eating other things, I have observed my goldie rasps on wood and some say ...

o.k thanks for the info

Already read the cat elog , but know people keep them with l25 and they prefer more than 23 also have read reports of them in water ranging 22 to 29.p.s cat elog does not state a size but from what i have read elsewhere they get to 30cm

ben

Hello catfish keepers


What sort of temperature should you keep l273 at and how large do they normally get.
Thanks for any help

BEN

Good Beginer choice with the bristlenoses, plus there great tank cleaners, the male are definatly argy bargy but its nothing major to worry about, plecs are definatly best keept in a trio, or if not a trio of the same a trio of different plecs i think asthetically works really well, bristlenoses ...

Hello catfish keepers


Am currious to know wether l14 scobiancistrus aureatus would like the panaques act like a wire brush in an acrylic tank.


ben

Hello Catfish Keepers :D :D :D :D :D :D Has anyone had any experiance with keeping theese plecs together, especially as they get larger and more terratorial. my l14 is about 10 cm now and want to possibly add a panaque nigrolineatus of about the same size to my tank if its possible, my tank is 450 ...

cool thanks for that mats

ben

Thats great, im keeping plecs from the xingu and my temp is 28 is that fine for the panaque.

ben

cheers thats some great advice,i already add veg for my severums so that will work fine. i have a goldie plec in the tank to its about 10cm at the mo the panaque i am thinking of aqquiring is around 15 would this pose a prob. Also my filtartion is a 1500ltr pump on a juwel jumbo internal box filter ...

Hello catfish keepers :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D Has anyone had any experiance with Panaque sp. cf. nigrolineatus`xingu and plants, i have a 5ft tank that has lots of wood 9 anubias and clumps java fern in. i know i have read that panaques are plant molesters, but is there a limit to this in regards ...

I have a large humbug and it used to be in with neon rainbows and eveything was fine, rainbows are far to fast for most fish, the humbugs not an agressive fish and dosnt really have a large mouth so i dont think it will bother much over 6cm.

ben

Hi There I keep 2 limas with severums and accaras and they do great. I think it will work with the oscar but keep an eye out for agression, although limas are large i wouldnt say there sturdy like some of the other large pims so makesure you create vertical hiding places using lillys. Limas will ...

I have a 450 ltr which is what i wanted to add the discus too, but the highest i can raise my temperature to is 27. i have 2 limas, goldie plecs, peppermint pleco, and platydoras costatus all of which are fine in 27 the prob i have perhaps is a para plec and severums, severum breeding temps are 26 ...

Hello Catfish Keepers :D :D :D :D :D :D :D I am keeping a 125ltr tank with one discus with a temperature of 28/29, is there any cats no larger than 12cm that can cope with the high temperature. I would be trying to keep to south american catfish either cory, plec or small pim whatever can deal with ...

Hello :D In reply to feeding, i have wild severums in my tank with limas and plecs, severums like tinfoils are plant destroyers but i use tough plants like anubias and java fern i also have an african lilly that flowers at the surface, severums and tinfoil barbs are hole punchers to a planted tank ...