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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
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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
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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?
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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
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8) :roll: :lol: me lookin out lol
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ohh shucks i feel so blessed
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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
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wonder where mine got too ....
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l082
l066
l048
l121
l173
l174
l204
l236
l250
L273
PARA PLECO
L368
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
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Fantastic all right
Mr pleco can you ammend :
-Snowball to snowflake- snowball =L102 Hypancistrus species inspector.
-L204 =flash pleco
-Medussa= L255
Butterfly plec- if this is from recent imorts then almost certainly L168 dekeyseria brachyura. I know the there was shipment a few years ago that were called L52( I recall catbrat IDing them as) but I never saw those
Amazing stuff!!!
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
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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
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ty i will let you know what my tests are tomorrow
I did cycle my jebo tank for at least 3 weeks but someone washed out the filters in the tap
When this is sorted out and I do my weekly maintance
How often do i change water and wash filter in bucket i got out of tank???
I love my fish lol
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
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Thanks heaps done the changes already I changed the gravel so thats not gonna help if I loose my fish I will live thank god they were cheap
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 )
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My guy on another spawn, the moment the last lot got evicted, in fact it was a bit of a catfight outside, so all good.
Hopefully we have a new "stud" on the block.
I mean the fish Mr Pleco!!
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
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id love to have that firenzenz but alas all mine are selfish and hog the food
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Right here we go first tank
2 foot standard size
55 litre
25 guppies (approx) 5 babies, 5 cat fish that i can see
5 neons
Ph 6.6
ammonia 0.25 ( colour next to yellow which is 0
Tank cycled for 2 weeks added fish over another 2, wouldnt of put all those guppies in there but i got given some
one dead catfish
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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
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umm sometimes they do and sometimes they dont maybe if they are well fed they dont not sure really
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think it may be a 136a definetley a hypansistrus
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8pm friday night
8 am saturday morning the day after
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hi pink fish and welcome to the forums
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thank you everyone
Asides from boring my friends and husband by discussing my fishies at great length I don't really know anyone 'locally' (in a planetary sort of way) who is also significantly into fish so I am very keen to join in and get to know other people similarly addicted addicted whos addicted ?
nah must be some other forum members yr talking about 
welcome to the forums cirianz
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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
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They are called Pseudancistrus sp. L067
mr pleco
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bugga did email you back and as of last month payed my yearly subscription too
My new aquisitions
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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