I have had a banjo catfish for the past 4 1/2 years (last 3 1/2 in a 120 gallon). It has always buried itself in the subtrate rarley comming out. Sometimes we don't even see it for a month or two. Today however I noticed it swimming all around the tank from the bottom to the top. The banjo looks ...

Not certain but I believe someone here at planetcatfish told me that they do this to clear their eyes of dirt/debri.

marineland bio blend are my L204s favorite although non of my others even touched them.

i studied the defective heater and these have got to be some of the poorest sealed submersibles on the market. just pulled lightly and the glass tube came off! it appears to just be a simple compression seal with the rubber top going over the glass tube. the insides also smell like overheated ...

it was a submersible.


i have heard bad things about most heaters except less bad about ebos, at least until the sh*ty new models eheim makes came on the market.

cat-e-log list L91 as Leporacanthicus triactis not a pseudacanthicus.

i wouldn't be suprised on L91 eating shrimps as i've seen them eat snails and have heard of them eating ghost shrimp.

my group of L91 show little to no agression towards other fish. they were in quarentine with two tiny L128 and ...

If you have a $5 head, buy the $5 helmet it wasn't a question of price but of availability.i didn't have time to wait for another to come in the mail.


In heated rooms with strong pumps and light heaters aren't necessary i agree. this is what i do with my 120g that uses a cs t4 pump (lots of heat ...

whisper heater from wallmart cooked my three L128 and my colony of apple snails over night into a tank of $60 "fish stew"

seems like everytime i come back from colledge an aquarium product or appliance fails and kills some fish.

are you using a seperate piece of acryllic for each window? if so i have some acryllic and polycarb scraps thast just may fit the bill :), still rather use glass though.

what type of fiberglass tape are you using? and are you just using the epoxy paint to apply it?

also wondering if you had ever ...

thanks for the info

The new list probably will include 600-700 freshwater fishes that can be exported.

that's it, only 700 species available for emport. any ideas on wich ones?

thanks for the pm and this post.

is the fiber glass absolutly essential? i hate that stuff after using it to build an electric race car body.

i was considering building a ~8ft long ~2ft wide and ~16" high tank to house ~three 4-5" L25 till they get larger. i had planned on epoxying granite or ...

If this is true, we cant buy the wild fish from Brazil, Peru and Columba!!

why couldn't you buy them from peru and columbia?

i've had bad experiences with submersible pumps so i am biased towards external (particularly cs velocity pumps). im my experience most submersible pump are terribbly noisy/"vibraty" once you get over 250-300 gph. submersible pumps do however eliminate the siphon/tank drill and in that way make ...

yeah, except from sump to pump. is the sump glass or acryllic?

i mentioned external pumps because many of them can pump more water and to higher hights that powerheads and submersible pumps. i prefer the cs velocity pumps (now labeled as blueline or some thing like that after cs went belly up). the sump wouldn'd need to be drilled. just use a siphon/u-tube to ...

is the tank drilled to accept the spray bar or is it going over the side/back of the tank? Have you considered using an external pump rather than a submersible one?

i thought i had read some where about feeding plecs live gammarus, i must of imagined it. either way it doesn't seem like much of a hassle to freeze them first sothats the rought i'll go.

i was going to try them with my L91 and i was thinking of getting some pseudacanthicus for my birthday present to myself and figured i try it with them to. if they are to fast to catch/eat i suppose i could always freeze them (to kill) before giving them to the fish. do you think L91 could chase em ...

well i checked the local grocery store today and there prices per pound on shrimp(cooked, raw, and frozen) were much higher(2.5-4 times) then their price for crayfish.

thanks for the info. i got a reply from a suplier of liver gammarus and they said they culture theirs in tanks indoors and not outside in ponds. i think i'll order some and starta culture and then trying the subsequent generation of gammarus to try to prevent parasites.

so if i only feed gammarus that have been hatched from the culture and not the initial ones (starters) then i shouldn't have any problems with parasites?

as far as i know bogwood is wood that has been submerged in a peat bog, this has the effect of preserving and keeping it from rotting. driftwood is wood that has been sun bleached and weathered on the beach. Both types last longer and pollute the water less than regular "dead" wood. i have never ...

thanks for the info, i'll get some shelled prawns or crayfish next time i'm at the grocerystore.

hi,
i was wondering if any people out there culture and/or feed live gammarus to their fish? and if so have you had any parasite problems with them? i was considering starting a culture so i could feed some to my plecs but have heard of problems with parasites when feeding gammarus and the like from ...

Hi,
I know many people here feed/have fed their plecs shrimp, prawns, mussels, cockle, and cray/crawfish from the grocery store. After searching the forums i am still left wondering whether they should be fed raw or cooked and with or without shells? Previously Iâ??ve only tried a few left over ...

i think your best bet would be to google fish diseases and look for a site with good description and advice.

example
http://www.fishyfarmacy.com/fish_diseases/bacteria.html
http://www.versaquatics.com/disease_diagnosis.htm

be careful not to over or needlessly (innefective/the wron medicine) medicate

i don't know how well it applies to your fish but my L. triactis love shrimp pellets, deshelled frozen peas, and a mix of aquatrol brineshrimp plankton and spirulina sinking sticks. so far they have been doing fine on this diet with an occasional treat of mysis shrimp.

from what i could gather from the decriptions of wakame and nori i found online they aren't as high in iodine as Ascophyllum. any idea what the healthy limit (ppm) of iodine is for fish?

the items in bold below are the ones that concern me as i seem to remember people mentioning that they were bad ...

hi,
I was browsing a catalog of dried food/herbal products looking for spirulina and carrot powder when I noticed that the company also sold Ascophyllum nodosum (the sight said it was kelp) and Chlorella algae in powdered form. Would these be okay to add into the mix of pleco food i make? The site ...