Hi all,

this is my first post so please go easy on me, my wife beats me enough every week..

I am looking at a fish on trademe from (i think) the same guy who run's discus haven in auckland (phill), i can't find any info on it and would like ot know before i drop it in with the rest of my fishy lot.

it's called a peru zebra and is whitess and Spotted With huge Flag tail.

and as the auction say's "and only Grow to our understanding to approx 100mm"

Has anyone seen or heard of them before??

being wild caught i am worried for the other fish and later ones.

my tank is 5 foot by 2 foot by 2 foot. has three bristlenose, two (soon to be more ) noen's, 4 clown louches, 4 sae, 7 - 8 molly's.

i want to add 5 -6 elephant nose at a later date and two three dwarf gowi's.

i run four 40w tubes, three 300watt heaters, 1 by ehiem p22028 filter and one fuavl fx5 filter and under sar heatring cables.

water are all good etc...

any help or info on him would be great ..

thaks guys..

I can tell from reading your post that you're Nth of the Bombays.

Don't know why ppl aren't proud of where they come from.

I was from One Tree Hill.

Where are you residing??

MOD

Alan 104

Oh!! ps.

Welcome to the site too.

Al

sorry but no...

down in wellington matey, but come from new plymouth a few years back..

thanks for the welcome.

:lol:

sup ewok, welcome to the forums. If you put your location on your profile people will find it a bit easier to see you're a proud wellingtonian

The "Peru Zebra" had a long discussion here in the past... with the search function crippled I can't find it though.

Sounds like you have a wicked setup, looking forward to meeting you and comparing tanks sometime

Sounds like a plan matey, i am over in wainui, lovely place it is, only good thing is i can say i wasn't born here.. :lol:

i 'll have a look in the search for it.

thaks again

stu

ooohhh nooooo

not another wainuiomartian.

Welcome.

Hehe...

Welcome, to yet another, Wainuiomartian

you wouldn't believe the number of us here.

sorry can't help with the fish, but WELCOME

thanks matey,

for all the drit that gets thrown at it wainui sure beats living in welly, for a small town boy like me it's a god send.

cheers

guy's

stue

for all the drit that gets thrown at it wainui sure beats living in welly

stue

I love it here. The city gets me into too much trouble.

Like the small town feel of this place.

Just moved out of the heart of the city to Upper Hutt.. about the same travel time as Wai but without the tyre-busing hill. Still go to Uni (older student!!) in the city so I'm spending a lot of time in Welly still. We LOVED Wai and wanted to buy but there was too much competition in the market for our budget. Rather comfy in our dodgy neighbourhood now

Hi, , don't know anything in particular about that pleco, but I've bought from Phil at NZ Discus and had fish shipped down to Dunedin no problem, so I'd recommend him.

If you've got the time to go hunting www.planetcatfish.com will almost certainly have info about the fish, it's just a matter of finding the thing amongst the thousands they describe

Only thing I'd caution is that it's wild-caught, and will probably be very finicky about water conditions. It's probably used to soft acidic water (asuming it's from the amazon or similar river) and if it goes into a hard water tank it'll probably be very unhappy. It's probably also used to close to zero nitrates and won't cope well with poor water. I'm just getting the hang of the wild caught Altum Angels I got from Phil, and keeping a very pedantic eye on the state of their water and doing _lots_ of water changes to keep them happy. I don't know how much they'll tolerate, but when you pay big $$$ for wild caught fish it's probably best not to risk it

Good luck with it if you get it, it's a great looking fish!

someone please tell me I am not dreaming.....check out the relevant auctions for the plecos. I am sure he has used the wrong photos.