Catfish

Can we get these here? I thought we couldn't get them, and i've never seen them, but i just stumbled on someones old webpage where they are breeding them. I'd love a couple, such cool markings.

A mate is in ch-ch and saw a blue spot plec that I might get him to grab for me. It has no L number and is described as being brown/grey with iridescent blue spots over its entire body. It has bristles on its nose so I suppose its a member of the ancistrus family. Can anyone give me more info on this plec or direct me to a photo. I have heard of a few of these in the shops lately. Cheers

I have just got 2 chocolate talking catfish approx 5cm in size. I have put them in with my treasured dwarf plecs for a week or so until I get the next new tank sorted. I have read that chocolates can be quite aggressive and carnivorous. Do I need to worry about chocolates of this size??

I am going to get a school of Cory's for my 3' tank but don't know which species. I am tending toward Skunk Cory's for their aesthetics, or Sterbai's. So I am after your opinion's on your favourite Cory. What is your favourite Cory species? and Why is it your favourite?

just some updated photos had to move some bub queen arabs moved 20 left around 6 heres the result as you can see they are comming along nicely ..fat lil buggas too

This is one of my long finned red eye gold bristlenose , i have a pair and she's getting pretty fat , i'm hoping with eggs , he's taken to the Bell i added to their tanks so fingers crossed !

I just wanted to find out if long finned cory are available in Nz

I purchased,some time ago, from LFS Synodontis multipunctatus(cuckoo catfish) turns out they are Synodontis decorus. I paid around $45 ea. now I need to shut down the tank ,I dont know what I can get for them. Also I have been keeping the pH up around 8 to suit the cuckoos (wich they are not) the decorus actually prefer lower pH. Very annoyed at Animates, Lincoln Rd . Please check ID of fish properly before committing to buying so you dont get caught out like me. I feel stupid.

Today I got my new Candy Stripe Pleco, from Modern Angl and its such an awesome fish with such clear markings. However it does look slightly different to whats on planetcatfish. I also noticed it is very fat. it is a female, and if so is it gravid? he/she is pretty fat. any help is much appreciated!

well had to get these going, had them for a while and finally can say have eggs and looking good found them today and male is doing a good job am pretty sure its L183 but someone can correct me if im wrong coz i have L213 in there aswell but cant find any pics of them to confirm that number either

My girl has changed quite a bit in shading and pattern - some of the spots are now splotches and her colouring has faded in some areas - this is my first BN so not sure if this is quite common in the species

OK I know i have tried this before but i guess it is worth trying again, I have a large female L102 and would really like to know if anyone knows of a male as i would really like to see this fish paired up. I know there are not many in the country and it would be a shame to lose such a nice hypan especially with the availability of plecs in general in NZ Any help would be appreciated, cheers

The first fish I ever wanted to breed when I started keeping fish 2 years ago was BN. It was really hard to watch everyone posting about how they have heaps of them without trying, and now I finally have babies!!! I'm really excited, the dad was really good with them, and I've got about 30 that I can see, but I guess there's probably another 20 or so hiding out of view. They're all out and about now, and growing really fast. Here's a pic, the plant you can see is duckweed; so you can see how tiny they are!

I have just picked up two young borneo suckers.They have been it my tank now for a week, and I am really not to sure if they are feeding or not.I have been putting in spirulina discs in and the flakes that I feed the WCMM's, some fall to the bottom.I have not seen them eat anything from the gravel at all. They do go up and down the glass all the time, and I have seen waste hanging out of there behinds, so they must be getting something.Do they feed at night when the lights are out? Or am I just not looking at the right times?

HI there Hopefully some one can supply some suggestions as to death causes. Have bred several batches of these delightful catfish. I seem to have not trouble keeping them alive but have heard back from one chap I sold several to that he has lost most of them and has had fish from the last two batches. He says that the stomachs are very white when they die. Mine have a very basic diet of cellulose, flake, pleco pellets etc and of course there is always wood in the tank. Temperature around 24-25 in my tanks and not too sure about ph though. I have these in most of my tanks without any issues although I did lose a couple of older ones (about 1.5 years old) since…

My new aquisitions - beautiful beautiful fish Lo66 King Tiger and L270 Chocolate Zebra L226 Tiger Panaque I go them from Mr Plec Now edited as per Mr Plec's ID to the correct names! :oops:

l082 l066 l048 l121 l173 l174 l204 l236 l250 L273 PARA PLECO L368

Hey guys, looked on sites about US catfish stock and stuff, and compared to us they rock, our variety sucks, just wondering if anyone knows if we can get catfishes larger than a syno that isnt a plec? i find that catfishes make interesting pets but i was just looking 4 something a bit more exotic

I want to get a school of them for my 300L SA tank but i cannot afford to get 6+ at $19ish each. Anyone seen them cheaper than this anywhere?

LDA33 SnowBall Pleco http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... 101&page=2

What temp is best for them - we are looking at getting one and want it to go into our discus tank where the temp is at 28-29. I've searched google and haven't really got much info but what i have found is that they like it around up to only 26. But we have seen them in the LFS discus tank display tank so thinking maybe it'll be ok.

all they do is sit at the back of the tank in their pack. :-? Is this normal?

Just wanted to know what everyone has lurking in their tanks these days. Quite often catfish are overlooked or unseen when visitors see tanks as they're often shy creatures that are best seen only during feeding times. Due to this, it's even hard for even us to remember what we have sometimes. Heck, I'm even starting to lose track so if you wanna just use this thread as an inventory checklist, it's in a section that you can come back and edit and update as you wish (I know I will).

Just to let people know that Clown Loaches aren't as fragile as some would think. I have 12 in 2 tanks the biggest about 20cm, 8 of them including the big one have been through a CO2 setup spill in an AR850 a couple of years ago which killed other loach species, angels and a 15CM BGK, they wern't happy but survived with no noticeable side effects. A week ago i moved my 4' loach tank in the lounge to make way for a much larger tank, the move went well with no probs until i got home the following night and went to feed, put my hand in the water and freaked, it was hot, a check of the thermometer revealed 38 degrees. I lost 2 adult pairs of GBA's and a 40cm BGK, all the c…

in the last few hours one of my plecs keeps swimming to the top of the tank and hits its head on he glass lid? is it getting air? has any1 come across this before? Cheers