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Just a heads up that the “ornatus cichlid” pictured looks like Mesheros ornatus, which are from Colombia/Ecuador, not Protomelus ornatus, which are from Malawi (as mentioned in the description).

Any UK-based MFKers have suggestions if any aquarium stores worth visiting in London (ideally accessible without a car, I.e., via the underground)?

If you go with Toxotes blythii or even microlepis they’d be fine in full freshwater. Your proposed enclosure sounds large enough for a Chinese or Australian water dragon, both of which do well in fairly high humidity enclosures as long as you have good airflow. There are also even more...

@duanes any luck spawning them?

They do well with a veggie-heavy diet and mostly graze on biofilms in the wild, so I’m trying to replicate this with some repashy soilent green. https://youtube.com/shorts/z5EGX9tR_eA?si=tBVe6GCr_zf1eX3g

I’ve heard that these are pretty peaceful and not nippy, unlike most of the other leporinus - has that been your experience?

Finally managed to acquire one of my bucket-list fish: Etroplus canarensis. It’s a pretty rare cichlid endemic to south Karnataka in India, where it is unfortunately endangered in its natural habitat. I first saw some in an LFS in Thailand in 2019 and have been looking for some ever since. I...

Feeding vid - I’m often surprised by how much shrimp he can pack away so quickly https://youtube.com/shorts/Q2dR5sir_MM?si=udI-58t30rTabWMC

Bump - open to any offers. Would really like to free up some room.

Bump

I’m selling 3 X 5-6” Hassar orestis, Black Top Mouse catfish to make room for some new additions. https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=39#:~:text=Cat%2DeLog%20Data%20Sheet.%20Scientific%20Name%2C,Top%20Mouse%20Catfish%20Zwergdornwels%20(Germany). These are awesome...

You might still want to consider the bottom eurobrace I suggested in my earlier post. This would mean running the 4” strips along the inside of the front/back at the bottom. This effectively gives you double the bonding area and double the tensile strength, and since it’s at the bottom it...

Agree that 1/2” should be fine. The outward outward deflection of the front/back panes of glass typically puts the greatest strain at the center, and this exacerbated on very long tanks. Eurobracing at the top (or the bottom if you want to go for the rimless look) resists the bowing and helps to...

Realized it’s been a little over a year since I got this beautiful little puffer.

Have had these little guys for a few months now and they’ve become some of my favorite fish - they’ve got so much character!

Has anyone tried building a tank out of PVC sheets instead of plywood? E.g., https://www.homedepot.com/p/1-2-in-x-4-ft-x-8-ft-White-PVC-Sheet-Panel-190360/205079515

Agree - looks like microlepis to me (based on the irregular bars and the two well-separated dots at the rear edge of the dorsal fin)

It looks like epistylis to me. I sadly also lost a bunch of clown loaches to it last year when I misdiagnosed it as ich. I had been treating with coppersafe and Ich-X for over 2 weeks with no improvement before I concluded it wasn’t ich. If it is epistylis, then an effective treatment is...

Thanks - stock list is: 8 x Toxotes blythii (clouded archers) 7 x Haludaria fasciata (panda barbs) - had a lot more of these but they have a tendency to jump out 2 x Xenomystus nigri (african brown knifefish) - these guys are over 10 years old! 3 x Pelvicachromis kribensis "bipindi" 6 x...

Thanks! That plant is Ficus pumila ‘Quercifllia’ aka oak-leaf creeping fig. I find it does really well under drip wall conditions. It’s not as aggressive as regular creeping fig but it can still take over if you don’t manage it. I’ve got another paludarium that’s totally over-run with it.