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yeah there was no wood today! you'd think being vets they'd know. my catfish have a good few pieces of bogwood. i thought he was a bumblebee catfish (in my ignorance) and was $16, i asked to make sure i wasn't about to buy a $130 and was informed what he was!!!

i'm thinking of joining my local aquarium club, just found out there is one in hawkes bay! what sort of benefits does it have? i'll have to think about the $130, maybe if hes still there in a few months!

hey, i was in a local pet shop today and saw an awesome fish like this... http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm ... cleid=2224 i believe it was a gold nugget pleco (i didn't write down the name!), it was $130, is that a crazy price? if it is where else might i get one a bit cheaper? thanks heaps.

its likely he was the victim, he was the smallest male guppy and seemed to be a bit of a loner. i think i might leave him in safety until he's strong or else provide him with a friend of another species. the gouramis that were in the tank at the time of the attack were a pair of dwarf gouramis (a pair of pearl gouramis are now in the community). the male of the dwarf's seems a bit territorial but only with the male pearl.

the community tank is heavily planted with many caves etc. i don't want it to happen to him again, he was so distraught when i got him out a few weeks ago... i might wait til he's a bit stronger, give him a few weeks?

thanks everyone, its definately the same beautiful red colour as before. should i return him to the community tank or might he be attacked again? there have been no others in the tank that have been picked on.

Thanks Aaron, Do you think I should put him back in with the community? He's alone with the snails in whats supposed to be a breeding tank (no fry at the moment though)! Seems happy enough though. Cheers, Laura.

i have a community tank with several guppies (3 males, 6 females); 6 killifish, 6 zebra danios, 4 gouramis (2 dwarf), 5 corydoras and 5 bristlenose. a few weeks ago one of the male guppies was brutally attacked, his entire flowing tail fin was reduced to a stump and he was hiding at the bottom of our metre long tank. i'm not sure who is to blame for this... i took him out to a smaller tank (no other fish) thinking he'd have to be put down... a day or so later he seemed to be learning to swim with his stump. its now a few weeks later and he's looking a lot healthier and it seems as if his flowing tail fin is growing, is this possible?! or is it just he's feeling better and has learnt to live without it? thanks.

cheers Ian, all the food was gone this morning. the moment i add the food for the catfish i have all the cory's, the female killies (4 of them), the dwarf gouramis & several guppies all going for it, one young bristlenose joined in too today. I added one more tablet so will interesting to see if its all gone in the morning but i'm sure it will be!

thanks Ian, i've been doing that over the last couple of nights and have got up to 4x wood chip pellets and 4x nutrafin which is why i added this post! the other fish in the tank nibble on them too though so its easy to understand why the food is vanishing! there hasn't been any sign of leftovers each morning!

Hi, Would anybody be able to tell me how much food I should be giving 5 bristlenose catfish (3 of which are pretty young) and 5 bronze corydoras? I have wood chip pellets by sera and nutrafin sinking tablets also. I give them peas, a bit of lettuce too and they would scavenge flake food/live food from my other guppies/killies/danios/gouramis. When I just had the bristlenoses i'd put in 2x wood chip pellets and 1 of the nutrafin a night but now i'm not sure, don't want to under or over feed. i've had the bristlenoses for about a month or so but the corys just 2 days. Thanks heaps for any suggestions.