phoenix44

ok. This will be my last new thread of the night I swear :oops: enjoy! They came out to play just before.

awwwwwwww

The poor algae eater is totally misunderstood. :lol:

sigh. if its not the pot its the fish tank. :roll: the fish looked petrified. water everywhere. that's the second proper bath he has had today. (not counting the toilet incident). Lurakeet - love it hahahaha :lol:

gosh. I turned up the heat on my tank today so it sits at 28-30

retail markups are rarely 400% - that technicality depends on the cost of the fish of course.

hahah.where is that facepalm thingy when i need it. :lol: It is clean as!!!

yeah. did you get little ones as well? I got them too http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp11 ... 5Small.jpg I love euptera's!

itll be good.

The only reason the title of the thread says what ever they are is because I was acknowledging the fact that you do not think they are rio ... I personally do think they are. I shudder to think what the reaction would be if i said I know these are rio... just as I can say I know the normal bn's are cirrhosus - but few would query that statement. Thing is we get a lot of plecs that come in with other names. The big band tiger plecos (L288) are infact peckoltia species. I can't possibly get a fish and not ID it, or even come close to an ID. what do you think these are? believe me, nor do I with you. I personally like your posts and think they are extremely insightful, so keep them coming. I have learnt a lot, and its good to know that someone else out there is passionate about plecos too.

but it has been ID'd as rio_ucyali many times from multiple batches. if everything was ancistrus sp. then the babies that result from them and the normal bn's would also be ancistrus sp. then we get a whole bunch of real hybrids that are all called ancistrus spp. then we really don't know what we have. so while I understand what you mean, because i know the we are technically supposed to ID them based on knowledge based on where they are caught, how is that possible in this case? The importer ID's them at the point of sale, using a fish atlas or something like that. They were named an. dolichopterus which there is no doubt that these are not. When I posted on PC, I had no idea what they were, but I knew for fact that they were not an. dolichopterus. Then I got multiple people steering me towards the Rio_Ucayali route. but.. phenotypically speaking, these do look exactly like the Rio_Ucayali right? the juvis look the same, as do the sub adults. I have to wait for the adult phase to make a comparison there. what to do?

I had half a mind to press the flush button to teach him never to do that again. I did not though, he looked up at me helplessly and said "finger" which means i have to pick him up. :-?

im trying to get the same pics as you are, and they are a pain to capture on cam!

love the euptera! I have one like yours that I have had since he was a baby, and now have 2 tiny babies as well.

Confucius say "Man standing on toilet is high on pot".

but with that reasoning, we do not ID any pleco then. ill sell my bn's as ancistrus sp. and these guys as ancistrus sp. then all those starlights will be sold as ancistrus spp.

yeah, he had a bath after that. I gave him a bucket of water that he jumped in and talked to. he had a bath.

:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: I warned him not to go wandering, but Nooooooooooo! we must do as we please. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

oh and pleco logs (nutrafin ones eh scotty?)

mine eat hikari cucumber courgette meat prawns potato hikari hikari hikari :lol: and tetra min tablets.

congrats!! :bounce: That's fantastic news. definitely need a new tank now. AR620T is great for a pair of sea horses.

was that in NP? best to buy discus off breeders if you want to see what you get before you actually buy it. apart from that, the "golden sunrise" discus coming into shops at the moment are stunning.

I think I might be able to see 3 catfish on the hires pic.

Update. Did a trim and removed lots of rotala rotundifolia. Hi res-

the powerglo emmits a good colour light that is beneficial for plant growth. it promotes bushy growth through the blue spectrum and tall growth through the red spectrum. the other spectra are utilised by the plants, especially the red ones, that use most other spectra - but the red colour (that's why we can see the red). powerglo also highlights and accents reds and makes the fish look great. AKA. it makes your weeds grow. or is it plants grow like weeds. 10000K replicates the natural light and is great for swords. Infact ive found that swords do better under 10000K light than 18000K light - unless the swords have coloured leaves (apart from green).