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Our sea water has some deficiencies in Salinity, and Calcium levels I think? ASW Mixes are much more ideal especially if your tank is only going to be a small one. It's basically a matter of using the premade mixture , fusing it with water, making sure it's all disolved etc and voila. Skimmer etc, will depend on what size tank you're getting exactly, I think there are a few good priced hang on skimmers. I too am looking into setting up a marine (100x50x50) Still deciding though before I go all out. Still debating planted/large hardscape south american of course.

Sorry to hear about your wrist, get better soon! Also, rad drawings.

Yeah, my sister has one. I have a friend who has 1 1/2 bracelets. They're really neat, you can give them a lot of sentimental value to them too. I think I prefer the silver ones over the gold though, if I had the choice and price wasn't an issue. The charms make nice gifts too. An animal themed one will look really cool as well! ;D

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A nice big feature plant could be cool, like a sword of some sort, something that stands out

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Congratulations dude, all the best =)

What sort of ferts do you use?

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The Fishfromvezenula channel on youtube has some pretty good stuff. They made a documentry which isn't available online to my knowledge. Would be interested in seeing it that's for sure. DVD is a little pricy though!

Sorry to hear about the L260 dude.

How many people have viewed this? A really good year long series with parts in all of the 2011 issues. Been good so far. As a side question, how many of you are subscribed? And how long roughly did it take for your first issue to arrive? Thanks!

I realise that was a post filled with assumptions. In short I think death due to lack of oxygen influenced by ammonia levels is a viable assumption. A blow that could of been softened with increased water changes and higher oxygen levels. When running a heavily stocked tank (If you are) water changes are VERY important. As for the L260, it could easily be an infection of some sort. How long had your filters been running for? Honestly, It may be a number of factors that have there fingers in the pie (Overstocking, etc etc.). I'm only making assumptions according to the outcome, not the water conditions. For far more accurate and informed assumptions to be made, there needs to be a bit more information provided. You described the death of the L177 and L200 in the same way that you described your L270. So i'm not too sure. Either way, there is information missing and untill we figure out what's going wrong I can only speculate. Just to clarify, is the tank at your house, or elsewhere? Sorry to hear about the deaths again, It's not easy losing fish. Please keep us updated with the L260. Thanks

Hey Fishie123, I have thought of a few reasons as to why you're having the problems that you are. First of all i'm sorry to hear about your losses, from the pictures you posted they were nice fish. I apologise if this post is a bit longer than the preffered reading length all, I also apologise if I come off blunt or offensive. As Phoenix mentions, doesn't have as much surface area as a tank with those specimens should. Although it shouldn't be the cause of death, It is something that should be reconsidered in the future maybe. I'm sure you were aware of that though. For me, feeding regime looks good. Relatively well balanced, perhaps if you think you are overfeeding them. Try underfeeding them for the next couple of days and see how the L260 goes. I feel it isn't beyond saving yet. As for water quality, with the filtration you have running I don't think that would be a problem. However, if you're not changing a good amount of the water weekly then problems may start to occur. Perhaps if you're doing 20% per week, try increasing it to two nicely spaced out 20% water changes. I do 20-30% changes every Wendsday and Sunday. This works for me, and have never had any issues with any of my fish. This may sound silly, but I feel that the temperature of your tank is indeed a factor in these deaths. One thing that's associated with temperature and water changes, is the amount of dissolved oxygen present in your tank. I feel deficiencies in oxygen can quite easily lead to fish deaths with no visible symptoms. "Water is an oxygen poor environment and contains only five percent of the oxygen that the same volume of air does." Leaving a tank with a decent amount of Plecos, all with relatively high oxygen demands (Well, i'm unsure on that. But some of the species you mentioned hail from waters with high oxygen content). The warmer the water is the less oxygen it can hold and only performing small amounts of water changes might not be enough to keep the oxygen levels healthy. Personally, along with my water change regime , my Temperature is stable at 27c all the time, with an air stone running 24/7 and again, am yet to encounter any problems. There are a few other things that will lower oxygen levels too. Such as "organic waste, decaying plant matter, and certain chemicals also steal oxygen from our fish. When aquarists think of organic waste, we usually think of the dangers of ammonia and nitrite poisoning. That fact is, that in addition to being potentially toxic, these compounds are also stealing the very oxygen your fishes need to breathe." I think it's possible that this cause of death has factors that were present with the death of your L270 also. It was being kept with discus, of which require warmer temperatures. If no air stone was present, then it may of been subject to oxygen deficiency aswell. This post contains extracts from the following Shanes World article : A catfish keepers guide to dissolved oxygen The article also contains alot more information on the subject then the my post did. So if you feel more elaboration needs to be made regarding the idea, that's where you'll get all the information you'll need. This is all the information/speculation i can provide without being aware of the exact quality of your water, exact feeding amounts, etc etc. This is just what I deem as a very possible scenario. Hopefully like I said I didn't come off too blunt, and I hope this information will help ensure future health of your fish. EDIT : Thought of an idea, and decided to change my original post.

There's one which features extraction from that wild. The uploader of the video you linked is relatively known, has some other good videos but little featuring Loricariidae. I gathered quite a bit of information from reading the Shanes World articles on Planet Catfish. Provided some good reading , the "Understanding Habitats" one was pretty good.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/life/ For any of those that missed it.

Pretty cool dude!

Quite the collection!