David R

David R's 1400L South American tank build summary (with FTS!) - Monster Fish Keepers A short summary of the 15-page 9-month build thread...

Will swap you any three of my clowns for the black, your choice...

Why sell a pair when you can get them to buy six and form their own pair? Thats what I had to do with my festae (which were a similar price too), breeding new and rare fish isn't supposed to be cheap or easy....

Both my Laguna 7500's are really quiet, but rather pricey. I agree with Henward, you get what you pay for with pumps...

I thought "pleco" was a common name that started out as an abbreviation for H. plecostomus back when that species was commonly sold as the "common pleco", and it eventually became used as a common name for most suckermouth catfish (with the exceptions of ottos and whiptails). I didn't think "pleco" was a scientific term with any sort of convention governing its use, but if we're not allowed to use it for Ancistrus we should probably refer to L046 as the "zebra suckermouth catfish" and not "zebra pleco"....

Looks good, what are the tank dimensions??

So is Hypostomus plecostomus the only species we are allowed to refer to as pleco [or plec]??? :-?

:facepalm:

You're also likely to lose the long fins on the geos and angels if you add metynnis, and you may end up losing cardinals as the geos get bigger. Stick with the plants and go for a large group of angels I reckon. Could add a small number of S. leucosticta but you may find the substrate gets moved around too much for the plants if you have a decent group of them. If you don't want it to look "fishtanky" then larger numbers of less species will look a bit more natural than a one-of-everything stamp collection, but its entirely over to you really....

They do have a wide distribution so different populations may vary, but you've basically summed it up AFAIK. Closest thing we get here would be the "peru altums" (actually P. scalare, but a nice long finned look thats about as close as we're likely to get to true altums).

I'd nearly be tempted to stick to small fish, say nothing over 10cm. School of some sort of tetras, big group of corys, smaller plecs and whiptails (ok maybe the whiptails can be over 10cm!) and some smaller cichlids like keyholes, flags, Biotodoma, Apistos etc. Looks good, but needs some driftwood!!

Very similar anyway, key difference is they're smaller so would theoretically be less of a risk to natives. Would be almost impossible for untrained inspectors to distinguish the juvenile fish anyway, in fact I think it would be highly unlikely that they could distinguish and Geophagus sensu-stricto at juvenile sizes... I'm not holding my breath though

I think his landlord might have something to say about that! http://s1188.photobucket.com/albums/z40 ... G_1935.jpg If thats not an albino silver then what is it!

I sold him back in May last year along with my other large fish (dats, ornate etc). I should email the guy who bought it and see how its going. It was fed a diet of Hikari food sticks and raw shrimp, and once big enough Hikari Massivore pellets. I'll be interested to see how yours goes given that its now in a big tank, mine grew 1.6" per month up to about 14" then slowed down a bit. http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... p?t=230409

Would be wise, you've seen henwards RTG making his tank look small. It only took 18 months for the green to get up to that size and was still growing, the tank is 180 long, 75 wide and 60 high and I still don't think it would have been big enough long term. Don't know why people recommend a standard 180g for asian aros...

Great pics, Japan is a place I'd love to visit some day. Seen many interesting fish/shops? Japan is a mecca for the ultra-rare and expensive goodies, know of some pretty serious collectors based there...

Yep its an african [not south african] arowana, looks skinny though, they're filter feeders and need loads of small foods when young. Nice rays too.

Too small a tank is the most likely cause, doesn't matter what you feed it or how perfect the water is, if you're keeping a big fish in a small tank its not going to grow. A bigger tank and good diet now will help, but I think your fish will never reach its full potential after having such a slow start in life. Here's some pics of my green, it was close to 50cm when I sold it back in May. Yours is almost certainly from the same batch, the difference being that mine cane straight out of quarantine and into a 630L tank (there was a price difference too). And when I got it

:facepalm: Go on Henward, fixed price offer!!

Sorry, I'm not interested in dead fish and unidentified juvenile discus. Good luck with the application though, might want to get mum to proof read your C.V., or at least run it through a spell checker. I'm not a FNZAS member either. :roll:

I hear cider is mothers milk for LFS employees.....

when do school holidays end again? :facepalm: Agree with fordayzbro, going into animates and getting upset that they can't identify the colour strain of their "baby discus" is like going to McDonalds and complaining that the sauce in your bigmac is slightly over-seasoned and the coke is 3 degrees above its ideal serving temperature.....

Like identifying colour forms of juvenile discus?

Perhaps you should try a specialist store like Hollywood or Pupuke if you want decent quality fish and advice. Fish and aquariums probably make up a tiny part of that stores takings, and they therefore devote an appropriate amount of knowledgeable staff towards it. I bet if you asked about fluffy hybrid dogs you would have got a more thorough answer...

The discus in the store aren't likely to be any species, they are man-made variants that have been selectively bred for countless generations and may have blood from more than one of the true Symphysodon species. I'm not sure what is more of a facepalm; the fact that the OP seemed surprised by substandard knowledge and sick fish at Animates, the fact that he thought it was worth making a thread about, or the spelling.... :facepalm: