I just go ahead and be obnoxious.

I don't post here very much but I lurk constantly so here is my 2 cents:
Frankly I admire those who buy a group of fish, L200 or otherwise, and are disciplined enough to keep them in species tanks, provide the exact water chemistry including seasonal changes, and make every effort to breed them. The ...

28, Male, Airline Pilot, Married with 1 daughter 18 months old

Fishkeeper of 3 years

Threatened with divorce at least once for every mention of another tank addition...

Just an opinion from somebody who has your same hard water situation...
I keep 3 different species groups of corys in the same high ph water and they do very well and have been for several years now. If you stick to the farm raised corys you typically find in shops you should have very little ...

I take a whole sweet potato, quarter it, shove the ends of spoons in it and throw it in. My L191, L200s, bns, parotocinclus sp., and panaque maccus' all love it. All raw of course. All of them devour all parts of the zuchini and cucumber.

No kidding. I rarely post but I'm a constant reader and Haavard's my hero...

Rochester, Minnesota

All good points guys, thanks. L191 is what I'm thinking at the moment because smaller is certainly better. As far as the rams/cardinals go, I already have one ram and 6 cardinals in my 30 gallon so those will most likely be going in the 90 gallon when I get it going. I've thought about it before ...

Thanks for the reply -
If I went with a royal my stocking would be built around it to accomodate the higher bioload generated by a swimming chainsaw :D . The other occupants would include a couple other small plecos like BNs and/or some of the smaller hypancistrus. I haven't decided on those yet ...

Hey folks,
I've never posted much on here but I've been a frequent lurker for quite awhile. I'm looking for several opinions from those who have kept these guys and are fairly familiar with them. I have a lot of respect for the opinions here obviously, and I'm wondering what some here think about ...

Completely different species obviously, but my pitbull pleco won't touch anything but fresh cucumber (not blanched).