Thanks, Mats... I may have misunderstood Jools' comment.

Jools wrote:Guys, I posted the changes to the positive list. If its not on there, it's not going on the positive list any time soon.

Jools

Looking for said list. Thanks in advance for when someone has time to link it in.

Good day, everyone! I'd like to get your opinions of possible gender mix on the following group of five wild caught Hypancistrus debilittera . These are the same fish pictured in both images. They are roughly 2 inches to 2.25 inches total length (5.1 cm to 5.7 cm).

I am inexperienced with ...

oh wow... gorgeous! Dan, you going to nab that beauty?

The.Dark.One wrote:Looks like

Hypancistrus debilittera

to me

+1 for L129 Hypancistrus debilittera

Well, this one isn't so colorful, but my Hypancistrus sp(l066) has done well in my exceptionally hard water and high pH. Same with my Hypancistrus sp(l260) . Sorry, those aren't black/yellow/colorful, but they are striking in my opinion. (I couldn't keep my "Gold Nuggets" alive.)

PS... edited to ...

My L260s don't eat when I can observe them, either. I drop sinking foods for them at night. By morning the foods are gone and I have the visual evidence of their consumption via pleco feces.

Is any of the food consumed, or is it left to waste?

Nice, Sandy! I said in chat tonight that I was going to send you $10 and have you buy me some lottery tickets. Nice female numbers!

That worked! Never occurred to me to right click! Thank you!

Thanks, Mats! I'll have my husband look into it (thankfully he's a career IT guru) and see what can be done. Otherwise, I'll continue to come up with the most imaginative spelling variations and just imagine the experts rolling their eyes every time I post!

As I type in this text screen, I'll get a broken red line under a word that is spelled incorrectly as my prompt to fix it. Is that 'dictionary' somehow linked to my computer OS, or to my browser, or to some text editor that I can control, or is that dictionary linked to the PlanetCatfish site?

The ...

Oh good grief. And to think linguistics was my dual major in undergraduate.

.... ya lost me.

Not sure if anyone answered this directly. Genera act as categories that tie closely related species together. Genera can be defined in any way as the original person describing it wants and are largely arbitrary categories. In any case, in the original description of a genus (or any taxonomic ...

Jools, Silurus, and Darrel - thank you very much for your posts. The classification chart is fantastic, and I'm getting ready to explore the Auburn link during my lunch break. Remembering the endings at the suprageneric level may be a bit beyond me yet. Let me go look at this other link and come ...

Ok, so I read through the "common names" versus "scientific names" thread, and figured I'd try to enlighten myself a bit.

Here's what I've always wondered, and pardon me if it's spelled out somewhere plain as day but I didn't find an explanation on this site.... What is the logic behind whether ...

I had no idea about the warmer water with Assassins. I've got them in temps about 81* F and no issues. ..Yet. I guess I should keep a watch on them, though.

Anyway - to your original point. The fluben is in a product called Wormer Plus (the ones the Discus breeders use) -- I haven't the slightest ...

Sorry, I don't know about a source in the US. Pest snails are an aggravation for sure. I finally got some Assassin snails and they've got the population significantly under control.

If you're wanting to rescape using stuff from the snail infested tank into other tanks, can you do a potassium ...

I don't know if it will be possible to determine gender based on these photos or not. I have a terrible time with macro settings on my camera, and I don't have any other L066 to put for comparison. I will say, though, that there's no real significant odontodes at the cheeks. And this pleco has a ...

They look very nice! Looking forward to getting mine - just saw the shipping notice come through my e-mail. ~Cheers

apistomaster wrote:I use a linear compressor air pump which supplies air to all my tanks.

They are the best thing since sliced bread. ^:)^

Which are the best thing since sliced bread? The filters, or the pump? If the pump at Petco that you refer to, can you private message me with the brand so I can look it up?

I've got an old air pump (suitable 20-30 gallons supposedly) but have ...

Just a single tank worth of air. 30-US gallons; which I think is what...36 inches x 13 inches foot print. Haven't decided if I'll implement second sponge in similar fashion as mentioned above with powerhead; or if I'll use my spare Marineland as well. I'm assuming just the one sponge with the one ...

apistomaster wrote:
In my breeding and grow out tanks I use two Azoo OxygenPlus Bio-Filter #6 sponge filters and an air stone. [...] I run one of them with a MaxiJet 600 power head and one by it's air lift.

What kind of air pump are you using to generate the airlift in that second sponge?

Thnx!

Considering I was naive and had to ask how leeches show up in an aquarium, I may not be your best source. But I do believe that leeches can transmit blood-borne parasites from one fish to another. Not knowing what type of environment these leaches were in when they hitch-hiked into your aquarium ...

Yeah. thanks.

I guess this is the sort of nonsense you get from visiting a site called "Piranha-fury"!

Haha. Thanks for the constructive feedback. :ymblushing: (Though I kind of thought the same - however, you know the old saying "where there's smoke..." and I'd have been remiss to not verify before bringing ...

How do they get there?

I've been pondering picking up a trio of Sultan Pleco (L264) and like any decision, I'm reading/thinking/reading some more. And in my search of information, I came across this:

"It is assumed that the large, retractable tooth, the vampire tooth that gave these fish their name, is used to inject an ...

Hey Mats,
I'm not thinking either the Type1 or the Type2 are L75. I've had several and still keep one of them, and the tail had rather uniformly sized and distributed black spots whereas the type 2 in your picture appears to have a solid tail. And while the black spots started smaller at the head ...

Sweet! Enjoy!

I had to do a double-take to check your location. Being here in the US, I equate "mushroom season" with the much coveted morel mushroom. In my part of Indiana, that typically is toward the last week of April. And boy is it a treat to find a good mess of them!