phoenix44

here is what you can typically get in this week blue fin panaque gold phantoms gold phantom show size 11cm blue phantom yellow seam pleco white spotted blue pleco leopard pleco tiger pleco big band tiger pleco L288 ancistrus Ranuncululus scarlet pleco (cochilidon) large and medium leopard frog pleco snowball pleco magnum pleco niveatus pleco goldy pleco Iv just typed it out as is - note the lack of L numbers. Any one know what the yellow seam pleco may be? the real gold nugget perhaps? same with white spotted blue pleco - any one know what that may be as well? Thanks. oh and hope the list helps. It does not reflect only what is in the country - but just some of the plecos that can be bought.

yeh I have lots of pics! :lol: there is only a 22page thread about this tank, but here is another 2 pics I just took. Thanks for the complement

he is just so cute though. Id pull his cheeks! :lol:

naah. not agressive. i had some with my tetras even. i used to handfeed mine. awesome fish. very playful. they can eat smaller fish like neons if you don't keep em fat and all.

awwww. don't you just want to pull his cheeks? have some fish for him? :lol:

I think there should be a prize! a good prize! that way i can justify buying an AR 380!

put him in brand new water. keep a whole lot of water in buckets and chuck him in new water every day or so

A pair of salvinis if you can still find one

I think he like me would be more worried about the plants, and the damage the meds could do to the plants :lol:

I am teaching rusty how to say "grrrrrr fish fish fish" so far he has got the grrrrr part down well. :bounce: :lol:

well. you do get the odd hairy female (sorry french women). not full on bristles, but more like stubble.

looks like i shall be getting an ar 380 then

looks like i shall be getting an ar 380 then

temp at 30C and salt. you know that green stuff used to cure white spot at animates? see if you can take some of that home, mix about 3 drops of that to 4 drops of tonic. your plants should be sweet.

what about my choc fish?

plant it densely with some cardinals. nothing else. maybe 3 panda cories.

on my desk chucked along with all my paper work

I usually have all my plecos eat the courgette, along with the 30or so e. yellows and the 20 dems. then megatron (big bn) come along and sits on the entire courgette and eats the whole thing

I wouldnt mind buying a hybrid - or any other weird looking fish for that matter, as long as it visually appealed to me. BUT I would be very very ticked off if i bought it as a certain species (name or otherwise) and it turned out to be something else. I think the issue here is more the fact that say someone like "bob off trademe" (bob is a random name) buys a nice looking male something or the other to breed with his female of the same species. then bob sells the babies as; what ever he is certain it is - because he bought it as that fish so it must be that fish. that's where the problems start. we cant just make up a name cause it sounds cool, or it sounds right. if in doubt just say its a peacock of some description, or a tiger pleco of some sort. Any one here who has bought fancy plecos off the lists knows what you buy off the list and what they turn out to be are many many times are two completely different things! its sad. it really is. we only have so much in NZ and so we should try our best to keep what we have. Again, Im not against hybrids, but i am against mislabelling.

just growing them up to see if it mounts to any thing.

finally! ok so i used a very old fashioned way of sprouting the seeds. i kept them in the same packet you sent them to me in. theory being the seeds would use the energy source in the seeds - the cotyledons to sprout. today, after almost a month - success! almost 100% of the seeds have sprouted.

every time i drop a piece of hikari in the tank the big clown loach takes it and swims all around the tank until it dissolves. least this way they all can eat their hikari! :lol:

but that's no fun! :lol:

can i tell you any thing at all?