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My Name is Jonas Eriksson, im a 18 year old boy from Sweden. I like a lot of fish, my primary interest is in African cichlids as Tropheus from tanganyika and Labidochromis, protmelas and aulonocara from lake malawi. I also like the catfish from the loricidae family, especialy L163 that my friend has.

I am thinking about getting a South american Earth-eater aquarium and if they would function good in such an aquarium together with cichlids from south-america. I'd love to get some tips for the kind of fish that i can keep in a 250l corner-aquarium and if the L 163 would work in such an aquarium?

I also wonder why you cat wirte cichlids and other things like it without getting it censored?
Thaks for a wonderful forum!

Hi and welcome to the forum. I lived just on the other side of the water, Denmark

nice! do you live in Copenhagen or helsingör or somewhere else? maybe you are so lucky that you live in vaellensbaek strand, my favorite place in denmark (cichlidecentret)

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Yann

Jonas.E. wrote:Hello
I also wonder why you cat wirte c*****ds and other things like it without getting it censored?

It's just a bit of harmless rivalry. If you want to talk to people about the family Cichlidae try http://britishcichlid.com/phpbb/index.php
There's been a couple of good threads about Eartheaters on there.

Pete

Jonas.E. wrote:nice! do you live in Copenhagen or helsingör or somewhere else? maybe you are so lucky that you live in vaellensbaek strand, my favorite place in denmark (c*****decentret)

The only place to live: Helsingør, Helsingore. The shortest distance to Sweden in Denmark. .

ok, i've been in helsingör many times, i lve in skåne so it's not such a big distance, maybe 50km from where i live.

ok, cichlid talk is somewhere else, can understand that(it would be a bit messy if the cichlidists invaded this forum aswell ).

I've liked catfidh ever since my father had our familys first aquarium, i can't remeber what kind of catfish but i think it was some of the loricidae family. It was a bit black and switching to grey and it was really ugly. We had two from the beginning and the other one was a lot more beutiful but it died one time when i accidentially dropped the whole food-container in the aquarum (it was a 90 litre aquarium, think about what effect a whole canister of tetra-food would do in that). I was afraid as hell that the fish would die and my mum and dad had already gone to work (i was like 7 years old or something) so i couldn't do much about it. When my mum and dad came home from work the whole house smelled of soaked fish-food (you know what it smells, i won't describe it) so my dad had to clean the whole tank just to get rid of the smell. Luckily his favorite scalare made it, but we lost some tetras and a catfish. That's my firts blooper with the aquariums, and there's more to it.

Now i am the one with the aquarium interest and have occupied a room in my parents basement where ia have my aquariums. I have:
1 540 litre with tropheus and some other tangs and a large ancistrus dolichopterus male, he must be like 14cm (i think it's around 5,6 inches, i don't know the inch-system that good)
1 375 litre with mixed juveniles and some sicj troph's. Here is my ancistrus dolichopterus breeding pair, not that big but they really give me a lot of baby-ancistrus.
1 250 litre with malawis and there i only have three Ancistrus dolichopterus.

Now you might see why i want some other kind of catfish than ancsistrus dolchopterus. I've been thinking about gibbiceps but they get so large, plecostumos(the black that's usually in the lfs) is a nice fish (my friend has one, i'ts as black as an hardrocker in the middle of the night ) but i don't know how big they get. I'll see what i'll get, they do have a lot of different catfish to choose from at my lfs and a lot of L-numbers

well, I'll see you öater, now i'm off to school.

Hi Jonas,
Welcome