SkyGrl

He's gorgeous!!

Looking for micro vals, micro crypts or other lowlight plants. New tank set up. 25 gallon.

Red deer

Amy

Excellent

Looks awesome! I gotta sneak over for a peek soon. o_O

Amy

Just got our newest Pygo (dont ask me what kind, ask Neesmo) yesterday on a shipment from peru via Harold and Jorg. gotta say its one sexy fish.

Packaged extremely well with hard platic between bags to prevent puncture. It will be quarantined for at least a month if not longer. hopefully train it to eat NLS like the rest of ours already do.

here is one crappy pic from my phone from unpacking. (during acclimation)

enjoy

Amy

if pic doesnt work here is a direct link

http://i5.photobucke...3FB9F6-orig.jpg

Dang jay those are extremely close shots. now i must get a macro.. pehaps when that dang wood comes in :-\. im so impaitient! gah.

my fav shot is the rummy nose for sure. nothing beats that contrast.

Nice choice on the rummynose tetras. one of my fav schooling fish by far. I cant wait to see what your 30 will look like. this tank looks stellar so far. Your scapes are aleays so interesting. you will have to snap some pics of your rotala.

i need an address!!!! gah im excited! i need mowr plants!!!!!!

holy your crypts grew like crazy!!!

Looks good Mko. wgat are the plans for stocking? Or will you just crank the co2 and grow mad java fern ;-)

Amy

Got a single male festium thats doing very well in with my angels in their 72 gallon. plus a bunch of plants. agreed with the higher prices for some stuff but in the end i got what i came for.. more plants. split some gorgeous vals with a lady sitting in front of me and got a sweet red tiger lotus. ill probably go down to calgary to check out their auction too. even with all the plants i did get it only filled 1/4 of my tank. all in all a great day. exchanged some items for some locals who couldnt make it and that made it worth it.

thanks everyone for putting everything together.

amy

Our vals love sand and thrive in it. super easy and fast growing. Try those out vince

Amy.

Dang jay thats nice. yeah it usually does die off like that some ppl trim off the dead stuff and let the roots regrow the leaves. hc demands patience. Hopefully you dont have to much die off

amy

We had our 5 for close to 3 years before any of them showed any signs of breeding. this is in a 140 gallon with about triple the filtration. keeping them well fed on nls and frozen fish (rare live fish being fed). we ended up with only one female and she prefers to build her nest in the centre of the tank. in the wild they will beat out a circle while doing their mating dance. Expect mass teetg scrapes and bites along the bodies of both fish. She becomes super aggressive (way more so then the male) and will "herd" the 3 other boys to the furthest side of the tank.

We have had no trouble breeding in our rock hard water. really we didnt even notice the first time the bred.. just noticed a bit of aggression after the fact. i think the eggs got swooped up by the filter. Second time we purposely culled the free swimmers because we didnt have the time or the tank space to raise baby piranhas.

jvision has it right from what piranha forun uk says. large cool water change coupled with little to no light usually does the trick if you have a pair. they may need a large amount of time to get comfortable enough to breed.

good luck

Amy

Even with the studiesbin the wild with dirty water. there is still different water flowing through the area where the fish are living. I think as responsible fish keepers we should try to understand that with constant water flow of even the dirtiest water is still water flow. like jayba said, you wouldnt like sitting stagnant in your own feces.

I hope this guy comes to his senses.

Amy

you could try contacting FINS in edm, her name is candice. she does fins with me and just does the edmonton rescue. if you would like to contact her. pm me and i will send you her number. you may have to wait a couple days so she can find room but she will help in any way that she can.

Amy Isaac

Fish In Need Society.

Red deer

welcome! post some pics of your plants in the freshwater photography

Amy

we used a dolly for our 180/110/140 with no problem. it was so much easier and less back straining. plus you can just dolly it were ever you are going to set it up. i vote for dolly

Amy

i would just put catch him in the rubbermaid in the aquarium lift him out. slap a filter and a air bubbler and a screen top to keep him from jumping. maybe a heater if he is out of the tank for more than a couple hrs. When we moved it took us 2 days to move the tanks so we just moved the fish over and they lived in rubber maids until we had the tanks setup. just water changes daily worked for us.

good luck with the move.

Amy

dang thats an awesome tank! now you just need some plants for in there! heh heh heh!

Amy

aquarium central just got some OEBT!!! do it!

wow they are looking cute cute! digging right in there!

Amy

hey Harold

Just wondering if you are able to get Thorichthys ellioti.

just really love these fish! looking for 6-8 of them mixes of m/f.

Thanks

Amy

_{hehehehe i LOVE that catfish.. when hes swimming it looks like he has a funnel going straight into his mouth! lol talk about easy feeding! i gotta say the cutest catfish ever!}

_Amy

awesome!!! i love shrimp!

Amy