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It looks like a very nice royal pleco (Panaque nigrolineatus) to me, although a tail shot would help. I had what I thought was a goldline but after seeing the new species paper I think it was P. nigrolineatus. Goldlines are now banned from export from Brazil so we are unlikely to see them imported in the immediate future.

Wow. those are some stunning looking peacocks

Looks great Phoenix. If you want another cool cory they have the real bandits (Corydoras metae) on Trade Me. A local lady here breeds them. They are no longer able to be imported so it would be great to see a few people keeping and breeding them.

Very cool.

Very nice. !drool:

Congrats thats excellent news. Its would be great to see a few more red ones about.

very nice

Have you read that hybrids are produced in Singapore? The larger dorsal fins could easily be the result of selective breeding. If many hundreds of a species are bred in ponds and the breeders select out the better patterned larger finned specimens for the next generation you could very quickly get gibbys with bigger fins or weird colour varients such as chocolate or albino plecos. From what I've seen here red spots and gold spots (the two common high backed sailfins) have very different patterning.

:nfs: very nice royal

yeah Hikari wafers are awesome. The plecs love them. Pics please.

very nice. goodluck

I've never tried NLS wafers. I'm using JBL Novo Pleco at the moment. It comes in 510g containers, the plecos love it, and do well on it, and its reasonably priced. Hikari is also one of my favourites but a little dearer.

Red spots, gold spots, and common plecos are all sailfin plecos (Pterygoplichthys species), so called because they have a long (broad-based) and high dorsal (top) fin. :smln:

They look like broad squid, Sepioteuthis australis to me. They look similar to cuttlefish and they taste delicious.

He/she's a muppet. The term bristlenose is used for species of Ancistrus, and yes there are over 60 scientifically described species. However chocolate plecos are a form of common pleco and they are a species of sailfin pleco or Pterygoplichthys of which there are 14 known species.

Its an amelanistic (it lacks melanin) form of common pleco. They are sold as chocolate or chocolate albino plecos.

awesome congratulations and good luck with raising the fry.

Awesome fish Geoff. hopefully the caves will get some use.

Very nice. Congratulations.

The whole fish feeling pain thing is a contentious issue, and in my opinion not proven. Were the trout responding to a negative stimulus, such as if you spray an insect with fly spray (now I dont think anyone thinks insects can feel pain as we do), or do they actually feel pain. In my opinion they dont feel pain but they do respond to negative or for that matter positive stimuli. Regardless I think if you are going to kill one of your fish you should do it by a method that causes them as little discomfort as possible. Whenever I go fishing I always iki any fish I keep, and if I'm out trout fishing I use a small rock.

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They are related to plecos and yes some have L-numbers. All suckermouth catfish, which includes plecos, are members of the catfish family Loricariidae. The catfish family has 6 subfamilies, one of which has most of the plecos, another includes the Otocinclus catfish, and another the whiptails. So they are relies but not the same.

With guppies, or I guess, fighters for that matter, most people like the males with their long showy tails. Females are much harder to get rid of in any numbers. You also get a few guppies with deformed spines or tails and personally I dont want to pass these fish on. I agree with Adrienne, if you are going to breed species that produce a large amount of fry, then culling is a fact of life. From my point of view, a sharp blow to the head, or physically cutting off or squashing the head, is a very quick death, while putting a fish in the freezer is much slower.

Great video. Thanks for posting

I'm afraid I'm also a use the whack on the concrete or dare I say it squeeze their head between your fingers. Both a bit messy but very quick. Larger fish a knife through the brainstem.