I've been feeding Kens stuff for more years than I can remember. I have been paying attention to the ingredients more so over the past few years though. Because I'm lazy, flake/pellet food is my daily feeding, and because I'm cheap Ken's is what they get. That's not to say it's the only thing I feed ...

My including CW051 shows how little I know of corys. :YMSIGH: Look like "low quality" white panda mutation of pandas... low quality in terms that the natural colour bleeds in rather than showing true white. This was my thoughts as well. Based only on those two photos, I don't think they're leucistic ...

LFS had some tiny corys that they had labeled as "Albino panda Cory cat". Stopped in and they are obviously not albino, but leucistic as expected. I picked up 12+ while trading in some other plecos. When viewing them close up and in pictures once at home they don't appear to be as white as I thought ...

That's what confused me. I remember you bringing those in as well as others importing some within the past few years.

AmazonTank wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 23:44 Was reading the Lacey Act and was wondering if it passed how it would effect my L397 pleco breeding project.
I was under the impression they are still banned from import to the USA

When were L397 banned from import to the USA?

Don't think a picture of the mouth would help in this case. Fish definitely look to be Hypancistrus, the question is are they Contradens, L201, or L471. If I had to guess by that picture, and the descriptions on this site, I would say Hypancistrus contradens About 8 years ago I purchased what I was ...

Is there an expiration date on the bottle from ST? Guessing that is an older version since it is not even shown on Sera's website

I also would rather have the males do all the work. I'll usually give a new L# or male a few tries at raising fry without getting involved. If things don't work out I'll start pulling the fry or eggs depending on how far along the male keeps up his end. It also depends on the tank and the fish. If ...

and Panaqs, in my experience, are the worst

Looks good, like Eric said though, wood over the caves and maybe less lighting. You can never have enough wood with these guys. Mine love bamboo caves but they destroy them pretty fast so I don't even bother any more. They also enjoy Alder bark if you're looking for variety. How often are you having ...

I've bred sparkling gourami in the same tank as my L201 breeding group. It's fun to hear them croaking in the fish room.

fishguy1978 wrote: ↑07 May 2020, 21:58 Why drill all the way through? A forstner bit would leave a flat bottom/end. I'm considering doing this same thing except with tree branches.

Easier to remove eggs/fry with a capped end

My frogs would do this often.

Sorry, maybe I used the wrong terminology. Was asking if you had any wrigglers in baskets while you were gone, and if so how did you handle them? I almost always have something (L333, L201, BNs, Sterbai...) in baskets/boxes/traps. I keep wood, snails, shrimp, floating plants, and catappa leaves in ...

Did you have any fry in boxes/traps while you were gone? If so, did you do anything special?

I have the same experience as stuby. All but one of my tanks are bare bottom so it's become easier for me to control pond snails in those tanks than dealing with assassin snails. My one tank with substrate is majorly overrun with assassins, which I refer to as zombie snails due to the fact that they ...

Are you guys using bookmarks to get to the pages that you are having problems with? I had the same issues when connecting with my bookmarks and realized that they were still connecting using http instead of https. Just something to maybe check. Safari 12.1 auto-submits forms when filling credentials ...

In my experience it is a water quality issue. My L333 tank has wood, Indian Almond Leaves, and plenty of filtration. I also do, what I would consider, sufficient water changes, however, if I don't use about 1/3 RO water I have the same issue with fry not consuming their sacks. Not sure why, but this ...

Depending on your feeding habits, jac has a point. I feed a very wide variety of foods to all my Pleco groups. Never had issues with BN in any of my Hypancistrus or Peckoltia breeding tanks.

No problem, I keep young BN in all of my breeder setups. Just know that BN grow quickly and that once they're mature they will start competing for caves.

Hard to tell, but looks more like a to me

I was expecting to see a man with two noses or man with three buttocks

Gotta love all the creepy little voyeurs hanging around

I use one of the Marina hang-on traps that circulate tank water thought them... When I began with bristlenose I used to siphon them out using an airline. This worked great. So when I started spawning zebras, I figured of course it would work with them too. Wrong. Bristlenose shoot out the other end ...

I've always used a shrimp net, never had any issues

Ideally you would buy from multiple sources. My original group came from 5 different people/stores. I kept 10 in a 55g which is a 4 square foot footprint. 20g long is 2.5 sq foot footprint so I would think you should be okay as long as you provide plenty of caves and the usual. I spent 3 years of ...

The thread was originally posted in the Cory section ;)

Just pulled a second batch from a different Super Red male with the same albino female as above. They're still just wrigglers but all appear to be standard color. I'll update later if things change.

Super Red male and an albino female. All offspring are standard color short fin.

Female was pulled from my BN breeder tank which has a mixture of short and long fin standard and albinos. Even had some 2nd gen (of mine) long fin green dragons in the tank a while back.

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