KrazyGeoff
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I still don't think they have reached maturity. In the right lighting there is hair on the tail but not as much as expected.
What makes you think its a female?
I tend to agree with Mr Pleco Josh.
Female
Female
Male
Male
Give them another 12 months and see what happens.
The females tend to like caves also.
Cheers
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Thanks Geoff
Would you say they're worth the wait?Well ..............................
They were not the viagra that I hoped them to be
Jump onto the site and look at the postage before getting too excited....
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Does anyone know where to get earthworm sticks?
And if there arent any in nz, does anyone know how to import them?
http://www.kensfish.com/kenssticks.html
I imported a fair bit a while back.
The postage will kill you (Postage was about 2.5 x the value of the product as they are quite heavy), but the exchange rate is better now.
They come really well labeled, and I even had a dialogue with MAF. Basically there is nothing in them that will prevent them coming through the border.
Even better if you know someone coming from the USA then they can bring them in for you.
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would a couple of clown loaches around the 25cm+ length eat neons etc....
thanks
I always thought that one would feed them neons to condition them for breeding.
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Thanks
Got any tips? I've read both your breeding logs :lol:
Just add water and wait, seems to do the trick. you gotta keep changing the water as well.
I think I used a 35mm pipe.
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Hi Josh,
Good luck with the L140 project.
Cheers
Geoff
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Lmao, did you still need help with sexing those bristlenose (jokes) lol
Hilarious :happy2: :happy2:
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Hollywood Albany had some today. Not usre about Mt Roskill.
Cheers
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At least 20hrs a week maintenance
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It was a false positive. No eggs
The workout probably did them good :lol: :lol:
Give them a 30% water change tomorrow and see what happens?
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WHAT!!!
No Barry White!
Doomed to fail :lol:
Hilarious
Checked them before lights off. Males still going at it but the female is now has her head facing out the log as if she wants to leave but he's not letting him :-?Female facing out is a good thing.
What I have noticed is that if the male has a female in the cave, rather than another male, then if you shine a torch in there he will flair his cheek odontodes.
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Nice work P44
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Yes we all got big balls here at HFF
Just about wet my pants.
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I didn't think you could visually sex clown loaches. Unless they were full of eggs...
.... Now I need to find the article.....
http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/breeding/Berg_Clown_Loaches.html
in the last section on breeding
Cheers
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Thanks, feeling very blond. Will keep trying to get a photo of her face. :oops:
Just my two cents but I think you mean HIS face.........
Not sure where I read it but I read somewhere that the ends of the tail fin of the male are "curved" (for want of a better word) and the females are straight, that is the line from the base of the tail fin to the tip of the tail fin is straight.
The tip of the tail on the fish in this picture curves to be parallel with the vertical line of the fish.
Some of mine have those spots also.
Geoff
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I thought I had seen something like that on K Rd
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It would be awefully bad taste if whomever wins it is not legit!
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(Not sure if this is the correct forum but...)
This has to be the craziest trade me auction I have ever seen, a real test of market forces.
What are these guys really worth, and what is someone prepared to pay?
A brave HFF tests the talk vs. action theory.
This may even be newspaper worthy.
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I use these guys:
Jurassic Stone
76 Ellice Road, Glenfield
They will also cut slate to size if you want. The depth of your pocket may be a factor.
Cheers
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Many many many years ago, one of my previous cats was taking a bit too much interest in my flatmates goldfish bowl, I told her she needed to put some mesh or something on top of the tank.
"Your cat is too stupid to catch my fish" she told me.
The next day she came home to find that her goldfish had become a dorsal fin.
"Your cat has eatin my fish" she yelled at me.
"Not my cat," I replied, "He's too stupid!"
Today all my tanks that the cats can get to unsupervised have lids.
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So crazy geoff, do you have any offspring available? Particularly of the blue fin variety?
Most likely around Xmas they will be big enough.
Cheers
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I guess I have spent long enough on the "fringe"
Common name: bristlenose pleco
Scientific Name: Ancistrus cf. cirrhosus
L number: N/A
Male: Y
Female: Y
Successfully bred Y/N Yes
Common name: Longfin bristlenose pleco
Scientific Name: Ancistrus cf. cirrhosus
L number: N/A
Male: Y
Female: Y
Successfully bred Y/N Yes
Common name: GBA - Ancistrus sp. (L144)
Scientific Name: Ancistrus cf. cirrhosus
L number: N/A
Male: Y
Female: Y
Successfully bred Y/N Yes
Common name: Medusa Pleco, Ancistrus ranunculus
Scientific Name: Ancistrus ranunculus
L number: L034
Male: Y
Female: Y
Successfully bred Y/N No
Common name: Blue fin Panaque
Scientific Name: Baryancistrus beggini
L number: L239
Male: Y
Female: Y
Successfully bred Y/N Yes
Common name: Big White Spot Pleco, LDA33
Scientific Name: Baryancistrus sp.
L number: LDA33, L142
Male: Y
Female: Y
Successfully bred Y/N No
Common name: Queen Arabesque Pleco
Scientific Name: Hypancistrus sp.
L number: L260
Male: Y
Female:
Successfully bred Y/N No
Common name: Clown Pleco, Pretty Peckoltia
Scientific Name: Panaque maccus
L number: L104, L162, LDA02
Male: Y
Female: Y
Successfully bred Y/N Yes
Common name: Tiger Pleco
Scientific Name: Panaque sp.
L number: L002, L074
Male: Y
Female: Y
Successfully bred Y/N Yes
Common name: Flash Pleco, Peru striped Panaque
Scientific Name: Panaque sp.
L number: L204
Male: Y
Female: Y
Successfully bred Y/N No
Common name: Big banded tiger pleco
Scientific Name: Peckoltia sp.
L number: L140, LDA61, LDA62
Male: Y
Female: Y
Successfully bred Y/N Yes
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Today I watched one "come out of its egg" which was something I had not observed before. First the head lifts off the egg, and then the tail lifts off and starts wagging like a P.Maccus....
It was really quite something and only took a couple of seconds.
They start out as grey and blue(ish) striped fry
This one is about 20mm long and you can just see the light blue stripe appearing along the edge of the dorsal and tail fin.
At about 25mm they will change colour to a dark blue with the light edge on the dorsal and tail fin. I was trying to get a picture of one of the older ones when I observed the egg activity.
There should be some avaliable about christmas, but there have been people who have "taken care of me" and I will need to take care of them first.
Cheers
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Cloudy water and funny smell?
in Freshwater
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Hi,
Remove any carbon or such like from the fluval, and replace with bio chem zorb, or another product that does not leak whatever it has removed from the water, back into the water, once it is "full", if that made sense.
Sounds more like an algae bloom. I get the same simptoms sometimes after feeding Zucchini.
I can feed massive amounts of food and no problems. One bit of Zucchuini and "cloudy city" the next day.
How often are water changes being done? and how heavy is the fish stocking?
Remember that the zucchini (once it hits the water) is really just decaying plant material, so I would also suspect that there may be some decomposing plants in the tank somewhere that are not helping.
As to the fluval slowing down, I have experienced something similar on occasion. What I found was the round part (with the holes in it that leads back to the out hose) in the cover that sits on top of the media trays was actually getting blocked by material in the top media tray. Turning the filter off to investigate, would show nothing because as soon as the filter was turned off, the material that was causing the blockage would settle back into the tray.