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Post by debbiem on Jan 28, 2008 13:18:31 GMT 1
My Gibbicep is about 8" long, he's the giant of the tank! he's a mid brown colour with yellow spots all over. I think he was an "L" number L110? maybe... I'll have to have another look on planet catfish! Is this it? That's what I had and still was growing. It fed well on homegrown spinach, scalded lettuce and various tablet food. It was in a five foot tank with two big outside canister filters. I have three in T.C.'s tank alongwith a UV filter. What heater(s) have you got, as 'plecs can easily get burnt on normal heaters? I had mine built in with the canister. Just being nosey, mind!!  Keith That one looks a deadringer for my Daves, and his predecessors.  |
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Post by debidoos on Jan 28, 2008 13:36:04 GMT 1
My Gibbicep is about 8" long, he's the giant of the tank! he's a mid brown colour with yellow spots all over. I think he was an "L" number L110? maybe... I'll have to have another look on planet catfish! Is this it? That's what I had and still was growing. It fed well on homegrown spinach, scalded lettuce and various tablet food. It was in a five foot tank with two big outside canister filters. I have three in T.C.'s tank alongwith a UV filter. What heater(s) have you got, as 'plecs can easily get burnt on normal heaters? I had mine built in with the canister. Just being nosey, mind!! Keith That's not him, I'll find a pic on Planet Catfish and link it to here. My heater is a 200w internal, and I have not had a prob with him sleeping on it yet... I have an Internal Fuval 4+ Filter and a U.V Filter. I had a really big disaster with the UV a couple of months ago, I had some external Parasites on a couple of my fish, so I added Interpets Anti Internal Parasite, I turned my U.V. off for 2 days so it didn't remove the treatment from the water, all was fine until i turned it back on. An hour later I could not see ANY fish swimming I walked up to the tank to see the majority of them dead on the bottom of the tank with the rest gasping  !!! I quickly grabbed all the buckets I could find after shreaking for help and put fresh tap water in them. I managed to revive my Gibbicep, 1 of 3 of my clown loach 4 of 5 of my corys, and a moonlight gourami, who died 2 weeks later. I then emptied the tank, and refilled it with fresh water. I later found out that in turning the U.V. back on it mutated the parasite treatment into SODIUM CHLORITE! It took me ages to gradually re-stock my tank, I lost close on 50 fish as I had all my baby kribs in there too. So from now on I read every single word of the instructons!! |
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Post by debidoos on Jan 28, 2008 13:40:59 GMT 1
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Post by debbiem on Jan 28, 2008 14:41:17 GMT 1
He's a very handsome chap too. He certainly is. |
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Post by debidoos on Jan 28, 2008 14:44:05 GMT 1
In my main 4ft tank i have 4 angelfish 3 are "silvers" and one is a "Gold Diamond", 6 Tiger Barbs, 1 Pearl Gourami, 2 Opaline Gourami's, 4 Albino Corydoras, 5 Bolivian Rams, 5 Neon tetras, 2 spotted Dora's which I rarely see, 1 6" Clown Loach who hangs out with the Tiger barbs and 1 Gibbicep (a type of Plec) I used to breed Angelfish, Kribensis, Guppies and Swordtails It was all too much hassle tho, and when I went on holiday I'd have heavy losses so all my hard work was in vain! Those Tiger Barbs have been rightfully named - vicious little tinkers they are too! Rams oh for a tank of Rams and Pearl Gouramis ;D I have NEVER had a prob with my barbs, the amount of warnings i had, "ooh tiger's and angels cannot go together" HA! the secret is in the numbers and the space they have. if you have at least 4 they tend to be too busy bickering amongst themselves to bother the other fish! |
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Post by debbiem on Jan 28, 2008 15:48:56 GMT 1
That's just what somebody told me, Debbie. I remember being told that if you keep enough Tiger Barbs together they'll be so busy deciding who in the gang to nip next they won't bother about nipping anyone else. ;D But I thought you shouldn't keep Angelfish with Neons - that's scotched that theory then. |
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Post by debidoos on Jan 28, 2008 17:10:50 GMT 1
My neons are full sized which helps and my angels were not big when i had them, so they've grown up together. I'd like to add a few more neons to restock the group but i daren't get any little ones or they'll see them as food, THEN they'll prob go for the big ones.
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Post by madonplants on Jan 28, 2008 17:28:54 GMT 1
Is this it? That's what I had and still was growing. It fed well on homegrown spinach, scalded lettuce and various tablet food. It was in a five foot tank with two big outside canister filters. I have three in T.C.'s tank alongwith a UV filter. What heater(s) have you got, as 'plecs can easily get burnt on normal heaters? I had mine built in with the canister. Just being nosey, mind!! Keith That's not him, I'll find a pic on Planet Catfish and link it to here. My heater is a 200w internal, and I have not had a prob with him sleeping on it yet... I have an Internal Fuval 4+ Filter and a U.V Filter. I had a really big disaster with the UV a couple of months ago, I had some external Parasites on a couple of my fish, so I added Interpets Anti Internal Parasite, I turned my U.V. off for 2 days so it didn't remove the treatment from the water, all was fine until i turned it back on. An hour later I could not see ANY fish swimming I walked up to the tank to see the majority of them dead on the bottom of the tank with the rest gasping !!! I quickly grabbed all the buckets I could find after shreaking for help and put fresh tap water in them. I managed to revive my Gibbicep, 1 of 3 of my clown loach 4 of 5 of my corys, and a moonlight gourami, who died 2 weeks later. I then emptied the tank, and refilled it with fresh water. I later found out that in turning the U.V. back on it mutated the parasite treatment into SODIUM CHLORITE! It took me ages to gradually re-stock my tank, I lost close on 50 fish as I had all my baby kribs in there too. So from now on I read every single word of the instructons!! Sorry to hear that, Debs. I have never used Interpet stuff, so can't comment on that. I have always stuck to Waterlife ones, as they degrade within 48 hours in the tank. Also if I did need to use a chemical, I would need to take out my Polyfilter. Not long after I started fishkeeping, I had a case of White Spot on some Clown Loaches and a short course of Protozin did the trick. I am surprised you had external parasites with a UV, as that is why tropical people use them for, not for algae control like pond keepers. T.C. has never had them or any problems for that matter, but I have some Waterlife Sterazin on standby, just in case. Actually I am onto my third bottle!! I chuck them out when they go past their Use By Date. Well, I pour it into a bowl of water, leave for 2 days then throw away! I agree about your Tiger Barbs, they are OK as long as , like you say, have a small shoal. If you lose a few, then you need to keep the numbers up. Angel fish can eat neons, though and have been known to eat quite big fish, as a friend of mine found out. He was losing female guppies over a period of weeks and eventually found his large angel was the culprit. He found it with one halfway down it's throat, one day!! That surprised me a bit, as I used to breed angels Hope you have better luck in the future. Keith |
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Post by debidoos on Jan 28, 2008 17:46:51 GMT 1
I think I introduced fish lice with a new fish, I was a bit surprised that they spread, maybe they were too big for the UV to damage, In hindsight I would've picked them off with tweezers which i have done before, but i was worried about them spreading to my baby kribs so i used the treatment. I don't use interpet anymore after that, I've used Waterlife's Octozin when i had Hex in the tank and it cleared that up fantastic! and I use Methaline Blue for pretty much everything else.
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Post by debidoos on Feb 4, 2008 15:18:01 GMT 1
Had my new Siamese Fighting Fish on Saturday and he is gorgeous! He's got a dark Blue body with royal blue fins which shimmer like a peacock colour, and when he displays, he has red in between the rays of his fins, oh and his ventral fins are red too!! Hannah's named him MooChoo (the dragon from Mulan). I'll get some pics once he's settled a bit more.
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Post by madonplants on Feb 4, 2008 17:05:52 GMT 1
Had my new Siamese Fighting Fish on Saturday and he is gorgeous! He's got a dark Blue body with royal blue fins which shimmer like a peacock colour, and when he displays, he has red in between the rays of his fins, oh and his ventral fins are red too!! Hannah's named him MooChoo (the dragon from Mulan). I'll get some pics once he's settled a bit more. Lovely - he sounds like one I used to have many years ago. I had one many years ago, (probably about the same time I was feeding the dodo's on my lawn ;D) but think it batted for the other side, it just kept getting beaten up my the females in the tank! Keith |
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Post by debidoos on Feb 4, 2008 18:41:06 GMT 1
I must admit I'm tempted to get a couple of girlies to go with him, because they have the tank to themselves, I've had a go at breeding livebearers and cichlids so maybe it's time to have a go at labyrinth fish! ;D
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Post by debidoos on Feb 5, 2008 8:34:10 GMT 1
True The witch! ;D LOL!
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Post by debidoos on Feb 17, 2008 12:40:24 GMT 1
Right, now i've got photo bucket here's my tank as it was before i had my disaster as mentioned above   |
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Post by debidoos on Feb 17, 2008 12:49:00 GMT 1
 My stud male,  |
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Post by debidoos on Feb 17, 2008 12:52:50 GMT 1
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Post by debbiem on Feb 18, 2008 10:43:57 GMT 1
What a fantastic tank Debbie. |
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Post by debidoos on Feb 18, 2008 23:22:55 GMT 1
My Main tank is 30 gal or (roughly) 120 litres
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Post by madonplants on Feb 19, 2008 17:34:11 GMT 1
That brings back some good memories, when I was breeding Angels. They are so cute when they are tiny, aren't they?
Keith
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Post by debidoos on Feb 19, 2008 22:40:15 GMT 1
I loved it!
I used to have to take the eggs off my pair as they would end up eating them when they started wriggling on the slate. I sucked them up in a pipette and put them into a breeding box attached to the front of the tank, I put meth blue in the whole tank so they wouldn't get fungus, I also had a little air stone in the breeding box to help keep them moving. Then as they hatched I'd got live baby brine shrimp for them to start on, then i moved them onto microworms, then finally liquifry. Oh those were the days!! ;D
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Post by madonplants on Feb 19, 2008 23:08:34 GMT 1
I loved it! I used to have to take the eggs off my pair as they would end up eating them when they started wriggling on the slate. I sucked them up in a pipette and put them into a breeding box attached to the front of the tank, I put meth blue in the whole tank so they wouldn't get fungus, I also had a little air stone in the breeding box to help keep them moving. Then as they hatched I'd got live baby brine shrimp for them to start on, then i moved them onto microworms, then finally liquifry. Oh those were the days!! ;D My pair were OK, until after the eggs hatched. Then I had to be on guard to scoop the babies into a breeding trap. Like you said, those were the days. I used to exchange the babies, when big enough, for more food or equipment. It's weird, I still have that bit of slate, sentimental reasons or will I do it again sometime? Time will tell. Keith |
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