mr pleco

wow kiwi plymouth you take awesome photos aswell its such a cool feeling to know these guys/girls have gone to great homes throughout the country they look fantastic 8) bulldog still have some if yr financial situation improves

bugga adodge should of asked you how you take such amazing pics ....neva get mine that good nice to see they have seetled in well just a note thou for those looking top fish in first photo is L066 king tiger bottom fish in first photo is L270 chocolate zebra and botttom photo is L226 tiger panaque patterning will increase with age and size jealous of the photos i am

no probs rochelle just whenever you feel like comming over , wasnt doubting yr readings just a little confused and never had a zero nitrate reading unless i was cycling a tank or had some problem with it take care till then mr pleco

geez just read this post ..sorry to hear about yr tank rochelle should have pmed me and i would have shot round to have a look i am confused by yr readings however i see that things are back to normal but it pays to know what went wrong i do believe somehow yr filter crashed either by powercut /or blockage a cycling filter with that many fish cant read 0 nitrate unless you are doing literally 100% water changes daily and i see in a later post that yr ammonia spiked to a almost yellowish colour this could be from the deaths of the fish but also i result from a crashed filter you were doing the right things by constant water changes in the same note it would have payed to stop feeding for a few days or remove some fish to help reduce the load on the filter it may have started as a chemical burn but it wasnt the end result unless it was a huge amount and burned all the fish in which case i would have expected to see the same happen to the discus as it did the BGK let me know if you need me to come have a loook or even test yr water for myself to find out what yr readings are ... have you always had these readings or has yr nitrates been higher in the past?

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

8) :roll: :lol: me lookin out lol

ohh shucks i feel so blessed

all i wanna know is "will the belly dancer be there again " ask "wok" for details on how you can get a one on one performance

wonder where mine got too ....

L066 are available from me as for the rest L204 are here and some around i have 5 but not for sale the other numbers i havent seen as yet but that dosent mean they arent here or never will be but i doubt it

sorry so many numbers and names to remember amendments have been done yes catbrat sold me the L052 ages ago its not the recent L168 thou i am looking for a suitable trio

ok for anyone interested my updated list Common name: bristlenose pleco Scientific Name: ansistrus (sp) L number Male #'s 6 Female #'s 10 Successfully bred Y/N yes Common name: queen arab Scientific Name: hypansistrus L number L260 Male #'s 1 Female #'s 1 Successfully bred Y/N YES Common name: king tiger Scientific Name: hypansistrus L number L066 Male #'s 3 Female #'s 1 Successfully bred Y/N YES 8) Common name: chococlate zebra Scientific Name: hypansistrus L number L270 Male #'s 5 Female #'s 3 Successfully bred Y/N YES 8) Common name: tiger panaque Scientific Name: panaque L number L226 Male #'s 3 Female #'s 2 Successfully bred Y/N YES Common name: snowspot ansistrus Scientific Name: ansistrus L number unknown Male #'s1 Female #'s 2 Successfully bred Y/N YES Common name: gold nugget Scientific Name: baryansistrus L number L018 Male #'s1 Female #'s Successfully bred Y/N no Common name: snow flake Scientific Name: baryansistrus L number LDA33 Male #'s1 Female #'s 1 maybe Successfully bred Y/N no Common name: unknown Scientific Name: panaque L number L205 Male #'s1 Female #'s 1 Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : /flash pleco Scientific Name: panaque L number L204 Male #'s5 Female #'s 0 Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : blue phantom Scientific Name: hemiansistrus L number L128 Male #'s3 Female #'s 1 poss Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : green phantom Scientific Name: hemiansistrus L number L200 Male #'s1 Female #'s 1 poss Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : medussa Scientific Name: ansistrus L number L255 Male #'s2 Female #'s 1 poss Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : butterfly pleco Scientific Name: unknown L number L052 Male #'s2 Female #'s 2 poss Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : unknown Scientific Name: conchidion L number unknown Male #'s1 Female #'s 1 poss Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : unknown Scientific Name: ansistrus L number sold as L213 Male #'s1 Female #'s 2 Successfully bred Y/N yes Common name : butterfly Scientific Name: ansistrus L number L168 Male #'s1 Female #'s 0 Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : clown pleco Scientific Name: panaque L number L104 Male #'s2 Female #'s 1 Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : blue fin panaque Scientific Name: Baryansistrus beggini L number l239 Male #'s1 Female #'s 2 Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : royal Scientific Name: royal panaque L number L027b Male #'s1 Female #'s1 poss Successfully bred Y/N no Common name : watermelon Scientific Name: royal panaque L number Male #'s1 Female #'s successfully bred Y/N no Common name :uknown Scientific Name: Hypancistrus sp L number L262 Male #'s1 Female #'s successfully bred Y/N no

yep and with that," someone " yr tank is now recycling whilst overstocked and overfed ..no worries it will cycle just important to keep up the water changes until yr ammonia reading is zero for three consecutive days after that 1/3 water change once a week and depending on how much work yr filter is doing say a washout (in extank water ) once a month should suffice ... this information is dependant on the fact that you have the right stocking levels for yr tank / yr not over feeding / and yr tank has zero ammonia at any test given and would be classed as the" ideal " situation but theres no harm in more water changes , you will learn about yr filter i.e if the filter flow appears slowish or you can see alot of "gunk " in the filter wool then you can clean it more often if yoiu clean it in tank water taken fom the tank itself and wash the excess off theoretically you can wash it as often as you like but once a month or even once every two months seems the norm , think of it like the filter in a dishwasher the more dishes you wash and the dirter those dishes are the more you have to empty the filter out this is why its important you read up on stocking levels and carefully observe your feeding amounts if these two things are right and you have regular weekly waterchanges it lessens the workload on you and yr fish are less likely to have problems

three days without food babies should be fine, by what you have stated above sounds like nothing to be too worried about anyway when you do go back to feeding just remember only what the fish CAN EAT in 5 minutes (thats no food left lying around )

well its not the first time ive been called that yeah may have to come for a looksy firenzenz as he dosent colour up like yrs but in saying that hes in with about 30 L270 and the decor isnt that flash just dont have somewhere to permantly 'put him up" at the moment im with you on the "Hypancistrus lunaorum?" even thou its a good lookalike theres more spots and size to mine than the pics for the other one and he is about 8-9cm

id love to have that firenzenz but alas all mine are selfish and hog the food

easy overstocked at this rate i would be doing 50 % water changes daily pls define good filtration ? 4-5 buckets of water @ 10l a bucket = 40-50L ? ammonia present can represent a tank cycling BUT does not always represent this the reading you want is 0 water change 30% daily for three days and Do Not Feed for as many is my opinion changing gravel can disrupt cycling depending if yr running a UGF (under gravel filter ) HTH mr pleco

umm sometimes they do and sometimes they dont maybe if they are well fed they dont not sure really

think it may be a 136a definetley a hypansistrus

8pm friday night 8 am saturday morning the day after

hi pink fish and welcome to the forums

addicted whos addicted ? nah must be some other forum members yr talking about welcome to the forums cirianz

lol havent owned one of these but i would assume they eat like bristlnose cucumber /courgette and some shrimp pellets for conditioning i believe they are called flathead gold nugget but could be wrong and grow to around 20cm mark

They are called Pseudancistrus sp. L067 mr pleco

bugga did email you back and as of last month payed my yearly subscription too