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Added a nice size group of these today:
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I've never seen a pencil fish quite like that. LFS's around here don't ever sell those. Very cool looking.
 

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Updated picture of the recently purchased d39 - approx 1/3 grown so will add more colour as it ages:
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Just some clean up crew for a planted 75G tank. Apart from bristlenose, never had anything similar.
2 SAE's and 6 small Otocinclus
 
I bought four tiny juvenile Berdmorei Tiger Loaches. I'm hoping my adult Berdmorei, doesn't kill them.
 

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I bought four tiny juvenile Berdmorei Tiger Loaches. I'm hoping my adult Berdmorei, doesn't kill them.
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Nice fish but they look like they’re wearing the fishy equivalent of old fashioned prison stripes :-). Hope they do well.
 
I bought four tiny juvenile Berdmorei Tiger Loaches. I'm hoping my adult Berdmorei, doesn't kill them.
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Just remember they bite; so don't offer them any fingers ;)
 
Can’t resist posting pics of my new Badis badis.

I have at least one pair - remains to be seen what sexes the rest of them are.

They are not fully mature but are old enough to be showing enough colour & shape to distinguish the sexes.

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I scored another fish from my list of badly wanted species that are very hard to find up here.

A group of 16 Brachydanio tinwini - aka Gold Ring Danio.

Just got home so they’re still in their bag but I’ll get pics when I can. Been trying to find these guys for at least 15 years.

Once or twice I’ve run across listings for them but too late to get any. They usually go quickly.

So I have hopes for them - though there don’t appear to be many females there are some - once they settle in I’ll have a better idea.
 
I've never seen that Danio before.
Sort of looks like a extra colorful leopard danio. Really cool.
 
I've never seen that Danio before.
Sort of looks like an extra colorful leopard danio. Really cool.
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They look quite a bit like a miniature Kyathit danio more so than a leopard but only close up

Like CPDs, they are so small that the details of their markings aren’t easily observed excepting very close up.

I sincerely hope I can raise some fry. I don’t think I’d have any trouble selling them,
 
I've always been a big fan of danios, starting way back with my 10 for a dollar Zebra Danios.
 
Tried grabbing a quick video of the new Gold Ring danios but it will need much patience I think, to get anything worth viewing.

They seem to have settled in nicely but they are very small & fast & unlike some other fish, are never still!

Plus they’re still skittish - only been a couple of days so that’s understandable.

Guess pics may take awhile to get.
 

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I have a couple of new fishes arriving tomorrow that i'm hopeful will be nice:
1) group of 6 wild caught l. dorsigera (hopefully blue form but probably red form)
2) group of 3 wild caught a. elizabeth (i'm actually not that excited about them but none of the fishes on my wish list is available and i don't expect any to be available for at least 18 to 24 months)
3) small group of 5 a. norami - mixed about these as i prefer clowns but whatever.
4) a nice group of 28 wild caught cory pygmy 'cause the more the merrier !
(whoever dreamed up calling them Gastrodermus pygmaeus should reconsider)


Can never have too many pygmies (unless they are head hunters then you should avoid them)
 
I have a couple of new fishes arriving tomorrow that i'm hopeful will be nice:
1) group of 6 wild caught l. dorsigera (hopefully blue form but probably red form)
2) group of 3 wild caught a. elizabeth (i'm actually not that excited about them but none of the fishes on my wish list is available and i don't expect any to be available for at least 18 to 24 months)
3) small group of 5 a. norami - mixed about these as i prefer clowns but whatever.
4) a nice group of 28 wild caught cory pygmy 'cause the more the merrier !
(whoever dreamed up calling them Gastrodermus pygmaeus should reconsider)


Can never have too many pygmies (unless they are head hunters then you should avoid them)
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Blurry picture of one of the ld - they look pretty decent for their size (approx 1 inch):

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As I was visiting a LFS today, I found a tank with Laetacara Curviceps (Dwarf Flag Acara) and I instantly found myself enamored with them. I would love to add a couple to my 55 gallon peaceful community tank. I think they could fit really well. My only hesitation is how they would get along with my Keyhole Cichlids. They both seem to be super peaceful fish. But they are cichlids after all.
 
I've never seen a Flag Acara & had to Google them. I think they look better than the EBA.

I'd say "Go for it" if you have enough space for both Cichlid species.
 
As I was visiting a LFS today, I found a tank with Laetacara Curviceps (Dwarf Flag Acara) and I instantly found myself enamored with them. I would love to add a couple to my 55 gallon peaceful community tank. I think they could fit really well. My only hesitation is how they would get along with my Keyhole Cichlids. They both seem to be super peaceful fish. But they are cichlids after all.
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With just one there won't be breeding aggression that often occurs with cichlids. They've been on my list (keeps getting longer) of fish I want to keep.
 
As I was visiting a LFS today, I found a tank with Laetacara Curviceps (Dwarf Flag Acara) and I instantly found myself enamored with them. I would love to add a couple to my 55 gallon peaceful community tank. I think they could fit really well. My only hesitation is how they would get along with my Keyhole Cichlids. They both seem to be super peaceful fish. But they are cichlids after all.
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i have 6 keyholes with 6 l. araguaiae in a 180; the two species interact fine when the l. araguaiae spawn they have set spots one pair on one end and another pair on the other end. They do protect these area even when not spawning but the aggression level is not too high as both species have natural colouring and recognize aggression. The keyholes have never bred but there has definitely been some dominating displays among them. This was not meant as a breeding aquarium and the water is a bit harder than most of my other aquariums (tds 120). I've not had curviceps and i've been told they are a bit more reclusive and less intresting than araguaiae and dorsigera (which is my favorite in the genus both for behavior and looks). I do have l. thayeri and these are larger much more aggressive fishes.

A 55 is pretty small and if you ahve more than 4 keyholes i would consider if there is room for more fishes. While my 180 is only 3 times larger it ihas more floor space as in 30 inch wide 72 long and only 18 high vs the 55 48 x 12 x 24.
 
Not fish, but now that there's plenty of extra algae in my tank with 3 nerites I decided to get them bumble bee nerites buddies. The ones I have I've had for almost two years and they're doing great so I got the new ones from the same vendor.

It's almost 1 - 2 years on my shrimp tank so I got 10 blue dream from the same vendor I got the snow balls. The yellows I had from another place died down to a few so it's mostly a good sized population of snow balls. To mix genetics I'm just going to alternate between color every year or 2. Snow balls being one of my favorites and constants.

I'm actually really excited to see them breed together, blues and snow balls, and see what I get. Maybe Crystal blue? And if yellows make a come back would they possibly make Green?

Yes I know, I'm referencing paint rules instead of how the genetics actually work. I guess I'm just experimenting and going with it. Lol
 
Have a few new fishes arriving in a day or so nothing fancy but the order does include Orinocodoras eigenmanni - a large catfish (getting 3); initially i'll put them in the 120 with krobia x. When they get larger i might move them to the 600 with clown loach and chocolate cichild or they might just get stuck in the 120 - gotta learn more about their behavior in the 120. Initially they shouldn't be a problem for the krobia as they will arrive around 2 inch.

Another fish i'm getting is Trochilocharax ornatus; at least in pictures it looks like a nice ember size fish - these will go with the morse code tetra and a. elizabeth i picked up a month ago - this is male lizzie:

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Nice fish i think also not too shy.
 
I'm thinking about rehoming my zebra loaches. I love them, but they stop me from having algae eaters like snails and shrimp. My thoughts are to re-home them, and then get amano shrimp, nerites, and corys. However, I have a betta that will be living in this tank soon, and I've read bettas and amanos don't always go together .....
 
I'm thinking about rehoming my zebra loaches. I love them, but they stop me from having algae eaters like snails and shrimp. My thoughts are to re-home them, and then get amano shrimp, nerites, and corys. However, I have a betta that will be living in this tank soon, and I've read bettas and amanos don't always go together .....
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If you do get them i recommend at least 10 and an aquarium of at least 40 gallon. I have 10 in my 180 and 15 in my 600. Love them but very passive loach not like clown or yoyo which are much more assertive.
 

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If you do get them i recommend at least 10 and an aquarium of at least 40 gallon. I have 10 in my 180 and 15 in my 600. Love them but very passive loach not like clown or yoyo which are much more assertive.
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The zebra loach? I already have some. I'm thinking about giving them away. They aren't passive in my tank. They drive everyone crazy, haha. The destroyed my snail population in 24 hrs.
 
The zebra loach? I already have some. I'm thinking about giving them away. They aren't passive in my tank. They drive everyone crazy, haha. The destroyed my snail population in 24 hrs.
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They were hungry !
 
Went to get a bristnose found out employee i talked to was wrong abou having them. Ended up getting a couple clown plecos.
 
Well I just ordered some new fish, its been quite a while, I really haven't seen anything interesting or suitable for my setups for a long time. But my 240l (about 64 gallons) tank has been looking very empty now that I moved the dwarf pikes back to the big tank after a long and unsuccessful attempt to breed them. The fish that had been in the 240l before the pikes I had moved to either the planted angelfish tank or the smallest ones to a 10 gallon tank. I moved those back but there are very few, mainly Copellas and a few ruby tetras. There's a whiptail catfish that stayed there all the time, and a darter tetra that I never see. Anyway for the first time in ages I saw some wild fish advertised, and I have ordered some Apistogramma bitaeniata, some more ruby tetras and some Nannostomus marginatus, the prices were very reasonable, and on a bit of a whim from the same place I ordered a blue phantom pleco, It was just $8. But that I am thinking of putting with the Guianacaras as their tank is more like its natural habitat - lots of rock and a decent amount of flow. And maybe more chance of seeing it occasionally in that tank than in any of the others.
 
Well I just ordered some new fish, its been quite a while, I really haven't seen anything interesting or suitable for my setups for a long time. But my 240l (about 64 gallons) tank has been looking very empty now that I moved the dwarf pikes back to the big tank after a long and unsuccessful attempt to breed them. The fish that had been in the 240l before the pikes I had moved to either the planted angelfish tank or the smallest ones to a 10 gallon tank. I moved those back but there are very few, mainly Copellas and a few ruby tetras. There's a whiptail catfish that stayed there all the time, and a darter tetra that I never see. Anyway for the first time in ages I saw some wild fish advertised, and I have ordered some Apistogramma bitaeniata, some more ruby tetras and some Nannostomus marginatus, the prices were very reasonable, and on a bit of a whim from the same place I ordered a blue phantom pleco, It was just $8. But that I am thinking of putting with the Guianacaras as their tank is more like its natural habitat - lots of rock and a decent amount of flow. And maybe more chance of seeing it occasionally in that tank than in any of the others.
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Same. I havent bought fish for quite some time. I will have to buy a bunch to stock a 55 gallon here soon though.
 
Well I just ordered some new fish, its been quite a while, I really haven't seen anything interesting or suitable for my setups for a long time. But my 240l (about 64 gallons) tank has been looking very empty now that I moved the dwarf pikes back to the big tank after a long and unsuccessful attempt to breed them. The fish that had been in the 240l before the pikes I had moved to either the planted angelfish tank or the smallest ones to a 10 gallon tank. I moved those back but there are very few, mainly Copellas and a few ruby tetras. There's a whiptail catfish that stayed there all the time, and a darter tetra that I never see. Anyway for the first time in ages I saw some wild fish advertised, and I have ordered some Apistogramma bitaeniata, some more ruby tetras and some Nannostomus marginatus, the prices were very reasonable, and on a bit of a whim from the same place I ordered a blue phantom pleco, It was just $8. But that I am thinking of putting with the Guianacaras as their tank is more like its natural habitat - lots of rock and a decent amount of flow. And maybe more chance of seeing it occasionally in that tank than in any of the others.
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I got a pile of blue phantom approx 3 years ago from a guy who was dumping them - i think 6 or 8; they ranged in colour from deep blue to green and they grew very slow (they were around 1 to 1 1/2 inch when i received them - quite small); after about 3 years they are finally gaining some real size with the largest one probably 6 to 7 inches (i never really measured it and most i don't see very often). Unfortunately I believe the one with the cupido was actually the beast that ate all my plants :( I suppose it is my fault since i was only feeding the cichild and letting the pleco fend for itself but still :(

I also picked up a group of "gold" n. marginatus though they aren't suppose to arrive till next week with the female a. elizabeth (the male i received a few weeks ago and the seller confused the female with something else - it is not your typical red elizabeth (thankfully) but rather a rather nice blue one.

In addition i have a group of emerpor tetra (n. palmeri) and a weird fish p. haroldi (the seller called it an oto but it is described by other sources as a mini pleco around 1.5 inch). One of the appeal for me is that it is a very warm fish so i intend to use it with my rams.
 
Blue Phantoms are on the top end of my fish bucket list!!

Never heard of a p. haroldi. May need to see a pic of that!
 
I got a pile of blue phantom approx 3 years ago from a guy who was dumping them - i think 6 or 8; they ranged in colour from deep blue to green and they grew very slow (they were around 1 to 1 1/2 inch when i received them - quite small); after about 3 years they are finally gaining some real size with the largest one probably 6 to 7 inches (i never really measured it and most i don't see very often). Unfortunately I believe the one with the cupido was actually the beast that ate all my plants :( I suppose it is my fault since i was only feeding the cichild and letting the pleco fend for itself but still :(

I also picked up a group of "gold" n. marginatus though they aren't suppose to arrive till next week with the female a. elizabeth (the male i received a few weeks ago and the seller confused the female winy it may be too small to put with the Guianacaras initially, it will have to go with the small fish, and that thith something else - it is not your typical red elizabeth (thankfully) but rather a rather nice blue one.

In addition i have a group of emerpor tetra (n. palmeri) and a weird fish p. haroldi (the seller called it an oto but it is described by other sources as a mini pleco around 1.5 inch). One of the appeal for me is that it is a very warm fish so i intend to use it with my rams.
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Well, that is interesting information about the pleco, if mine arrives that tiny it may be too small to go with the Guianacaras intitially, I'll have to put it with the small fish ...and hope it doesn't eat the plants..I thought it would be good with the Guianacaras because of the setup in that tank is more like its natural habitat from what I have read, also as since I removed the headstanders a lot of algae grows on the branches, which is OK up to a point, but I thought it would be a good additional food for the pleco. Also I hope I will be able to see it if only occasionally - I have 3 other plecos (I think) and see them once in a blue moon or less, I did see the clown pleco more often when it was in a much smaller tank. What temperature do you keep your blue phantom plecos at?

I am not sure what type of N. marginatus I am getting but will try to get photos when they arrive (should be tomorrow morning). I believe all these fish come from Colombia.

Where do you intend to put the emperor tetras? They are attractive but I found that after a year or so the males became extremely aggressive and territorial, not just among themselves but in my 160cm long tank they kept all the otocinclus and the reddish Hyphessobrycon tetras restricted to a small portion of the tank at one end.
 
Is that the galaxy otocinclus? Just saw a pic and they look pretty cool. A nano tank with some cpd’s could be a cool theme

I’ve bought too many fish recently…. Although I do need an electric blue acara for the South American community since I lost one a few months back and haven’t replaced it, and then maybe some Juli’s after my new multi’s colony establishes a bit.
 

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The next most likely thing is probably blue cherry shrimp. Although I was terribly tempted by a baby red tail shark... It was like half an inch long. I've never seen them that small. Unfortunately I won't have anything larger than a 29g for the foreseeable future.
 
Where do you intend to put the emperor tetras? They are attractive but I found that after a year or so the males became extremely aggressive and territorial, not just among themselves but in my 160cm long tank they kept all the otocinclus and the reddish Hyphessobrycon tetras restricted to a small portion of the tank at one end.
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I'm putting them in the 180 community; with cardinals, red phantom and serpae as well as 30 or 40 pygmy cory.

The aquarium is odd shape at 72 inches (182 cm ) x 30 inch (76 cm); hum if they are that aggressive i'll have to tie a few of them to the sponge filter ;)
Oh well the order is for 25 of them so it might be a bloody mess in a year.
 
I'm putting them in the 180 community; with cardinals, red phantom and serpae as well as 30 or 40 pygmy cory.

The aquarium is odd shape at 72 inches (182 cm ) x 30 inch (76 cm); hum if they are that aggressive i'll have to tie a few of them to the sponge filter ;)
Oh well the order is for 25 of them so it might be a bloody mess in a year.
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They also breed quite readily, I had several young survive
 
They also breed quite readily, I had several young survive
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I use tap water for that aquarium tds 120; so not sure they would be successful at breeding; also i have a group of zebra loaches and orange laser in there to eat all the eggs ;)

However i am getting a few honeycomb pleco mysteriously pop up out of nowhere which has me concern.

While i try to keep most of my more serious aquariums sparse this one is going to be a bit heavier populated.
 
I use tap water for that aquarium tds 120; so not sure they would be successful at breeding; also i have a group of zebra loaches and orange laser in there to eat all the eggs ;)

However i am getting a few honeycomb pleco mysteriously pop up out of nowhere which has me concern.

While i try to keep most of my more serious aquariums sparse this one is going to be a bit heavier populated.
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Perhaps with so many fish they won’t have a chance to get as territorial as mine did? I had 12 I think, plus a few babies that survived (some of the young were completely black!), and I had 12 of the tetras that are similar to serpaes, about 7 otocinclus, some pencilfish and at that time I also had 4 Laetacaras and 6 big angels. The tank is about 152 gallons.
 
Perhaps with so many fish they won’t have a chance to get as territorial as mine did? I had 12 I think, plus a few babies that survived (some of the young were completely black!), and I had 12 of the tetras that are similar to serpaes, about 7 otocinclus, some pencilfish and at that time I also had 4 Laetacaras and 6 big angels. The tank is about 152 gallons.
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My aquarium is marginally larger - i guess more total water with the sump around 220 gallons; i don't have the large angels but i do have a lot of schoolers and a 4 laetacaras. I had keyholes (well i ahve 2) but they have been dying this summer - not sure if it is the heat or water - one thing i did when picking schoolers is target fishes that were more comfortable @ 80 during the summer and 74 during the winter. I had hoped the area around hte aquarium would stay cooler as there is a vent above it but alas it did not.

The only reason i don't conver that aquarium to blackwater is the crypt nurii in it won't grow well in that environment and they are so pretty and doing well without co2:
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If the nurii woudl jsut die off i could switch to blackwater and put something interesting in the aquarium ;)
 
My aquarium is marginally larger - i guess more total water with the sump around 220 gallons; i don't have the large angels but i do have a lot of schoolers and a 4 laetacaras. I had keyholes (well i ahve 2) but they have been dying this summer - not sure if it is the heat or water - one thing i did when picking schoolers is target fishes that were more comfortable @ 80 during the summer and 74 during the winter. I had hoped the area around hte aquarium would stay cooler as there is a vent above it but alas it did not.

The only reason i don't conver that aquarium to blackwater is the crypt nurii in it won't grow well in that environment and they are so pretty and doing well without co2:
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If the nurii woudl jsut die off i could switch to blackwater and put something interesting in the aquarium ;)
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I hate to hear about dead Keyholes! Also, that Crypt is awesome!
 
I use tap water for that aquarium tds 120; so not sure they would be successful at breeding; also i have a group of zebra loaches and orange laser in there to eat all the eggs ;)

However i am getting a few honeycomb pleco mysteriously pop up out of nowhere which has me concern.

While i try to keep most of my more serious aquariums sparse this one is going to be a bit heavier populated.
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Perhaps with so many fish they won’t have a chance to get as territorial? I had 12 I think, plus a few babies that survived (some of the young were completely black!), and I had 12 of the tetras that are similar to serpaes, about 7 otocinclus, at that time I also had 4 Laetacaras and 6 big angels. The tank is about 152 gallons.
My aquarium is marginally larger - i guess more total water with the sump around 220 gallons; i don't have the large angels but i do have a lot of schoolers and a 4 laetacaras. I had keyholes (well i ahve 2) but they have been dying this summer - not sure if it is the heat or water - one thing i did when picking schoolers is target fishes that were more comfortable @ 80 during the summer and 74 during the winter. I had hoped the area around hte aquarium would stay cooler as there is a vent above it but alas it did not.

The only reason i don't conver that aquarium to blackwater is the crypt nurii in it won't grow well in that environment and they are so pretty and doing well without co2:
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If the nurii woudl jsut die off i could switch to blackwater and put something interesting in the aquarium ;)
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well it should look good anyway with the species you have, I wonder what happened with the keyholes…
 
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