can anyone identify this fish please


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They are still all alive

Treated twice with clout and since the clout treatment the amount of poo has increased. The poo is blue colour.

They are still very bloated and i am going to run there water through carbon for 2 days to clear any chemical residue, then treat with Big L and make sure they ...

yea I second the name cactus

i did forget to mention that i treat all rainwater with a amazon water buffer so it has the right trace elements.

I got my conductivity pen today, I love Ebay. If only we could buy catfish from Ebay, In Australia the cost of a nice Lnumber is ridiculous.

The TDS is on 130ppm in the L201s tank.

Our Tap water here has a TDS of 410ppm.

They still have severe Bloat and still very little poo in the morning ...

thank mate

The nutafin/hagen water test kit for GH/KH when i read the book it referred to TSD in PPM :oops:

Did some research and i can buy a conductivty meter so i will get one of those much easier to check then. Just have to disinfect after every use.

I have fed them 3 crushed peas and two ...

60 ppm GH

30 ppm KH

just done 10% waterchange with tap water, will do another tomorrow. I dont want to change any water parameters to rapidly.

Cleaned the small sponge filter from my zeb tank and luckily it was due a clean, so there was plenty of seed bacteria. I have dirty tank water now :D

any more advice would be ...

i hope they are gravid.

Just never seen a catfish look so fat.

they do seem active but the lack of poo is what really worries me.

Plecos are poo machines

just to check the TDS is total dissolved salts and you recomend 100 parts per million.

how is the best way to check

:oops: just read what GH ...

I have a tank that has a small filter in it as well as a canister and that has my zebras in. I feel confident that is very clean tank and has nothing introduced into it for over 3 months. I will take the small filter out and rinse it in some water from the zeb tank then poor that water into the L201 ...

it is midnight here

I just went into the room the L201s are in, I went in with small torch and most of them where out looking for food and when they seen the torch a couple scattered like scared rabbits. so they seem to be moving around ok but most of them look like more like toads with fins. Not ...

yes only rain water

i check PH, nitrites, nitrates daily.

nitrites and nitrates below the lowest possible reading on the colour scale on the hagen test sheet.

ph is 6.5

I gave them some crushed peas during the first two days after they arrived and i will give them some more tonight.

They are ...

i have some bloat in my colony of 8 x L201s that i recieved 2 weeks ago. They arrived in water that had dropped to 16 degrees celcius and were very lethargic with servere bloat. I have them alone in a 400ltr/100gallon tank no substrate and just 5 breeding caves and a couple of ornaments for them to ...

Thank you very much for the quick reply Jackster

Now comes the fun bit trying to find the same type of product in the australian market, guess i will be visiting a few fish shops ths weekend.

Always enjoy checking out the fish and plants maybe i will find something interesting

Thanks again

could i ask what the active ingrediants are in clout, being in australia i cant get clout but there is probably a similar product on the market

Thank you

Thank you Seedy

Great Links

Now i dont feel so bad about stripping the tank down.

I think i have it under control know.Lost a few fish but looks like the spots on the fish are disapearing. They still seem to be off there food.

Hopefully they will start eating over the next couple of days ...

thank you apistomaster and everyone else for the replies, I always believe it is a good day if you learn something new.

Looks like the tank was in good balance, and i have destroyed that balance :oops: . Hopefully the cannister filter that was not stripped down will still have some live ones in and ...

i could be wrong i am just going on the following statement on the website.

In comparison with other "Salt Lakes" the "culture lake" is quite "inhospit-able"

My understanding of the english language leads me to think that they are implying that the lake they take the cyclopeeze from is a salt ...

they were L333s

According to the cyclopeeze website the lake they harvest from is salt lake.

Quote taken from there website

The culture site for
CYCLOP-EEZE® consists
of a large arctic lake
several hundred square miles
in area and of shallow depth.
There are 300 sunny days per year with sunlight fully ...

the water was good ph 7, no nitrates, no nitrites, no ammonia. I use rain water in my tanks and condition with wood and peat in the filters.

The fish that had the problem where new and had been shipped taking aproximately 12 hours shipping time. Temp dropped to 16 degrees Celcius in there bags ...

now i know what to look for

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/ind ... crust.html

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/micropo ... rame3.html

thank you

sorry my mistake

I thought cyclops came from salt water lakes

because of cyclop-eeze

is it possible for cyclops to live in a fresh water tank. I have feed them frozen cyclops and these creatures are alive, or should i say where. I have killed most of them. They creatures mostly have the two appendages, the smaller creatures have none.

There is deffinatly a parasite infestation on ...

will try to get some more pics tomorrow.

dont have proper camera for it though

I currently have several fish with what appears to be white spot but have also noticed what look like tiny crabs on the glass. I managed to take a pic of one, It is about 1mm - 1.5mm long The bigger one look like they have a set of claws or two appendages, See what u guys think.



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Hello everyone

Could the experts out there please check this pick out and identify the Lnumber of these Hypancistrus. If possible could u sex them and explain to me the exact differances as i am not certain how to sex. I have done a lot of reading but i only seem to be getting confused.

Please ...

thank u

will do in future

wow that was quick

have i done something wrong when i posted the link to the pics.

when i look at the post i dont see an image just the web address.

I followed the instructions from FAQ for the image to be in the post.

Can anyone tell me what i did wrong please

I changed the title after reading ...

Could anyone id this catfish please and if it is male or female It was sold to me as a L333

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