catfishes/Plecos?

[Jonathan_Tan]

any catfish or pleco keepers?

[benjamin wong]

used to until my tank of zebra died...
my dumb dog jump up and drank water with it's
oily face at night.....
what you keeping?i want to get
zebra oti

[Ong Ginyew]

lol, dumb
yup... got a red tailed black shark and one pleco....
me thinking of keeping corydoras....
zebra is x pensive rite?

[Jonathan_Tan]

i got a tiger shovelnose...
i want to keep some zebra plecos...small and beautiflu...
price wise a little on the high side...around $50+ now...last time more ex i think...

i also have to pygny coridoras...very hardy buggers... leopard cory and peppered cory died but they still alive...and thriving...

[Ong Ginyew]

corydoras veri easily die leh... i keep until veri du ***!
but now wan to try again.....

[Samuel Phan]

As long as you have a tank with decent size (able 2ft) and some under-gravels and clean water.
Corys dun die that easily. I tink I still have about 20 corys now in my 4 ft tank together with my angels. Some of them are probably more than 2 years old in my house already.

[Ong Ginyew]

corys live in soft water rite?

[Ong Ginyew]

corys live in soft water rite?

[Ong Ginyew]

i think they r delicate fishes like the tetra family....
need veri soft water to survive....

[Ong Ginyew]

i think they r delicate fishes like the tetra family....
need veri soft water to survive....

[Foo Hong]

How much is the Zebra pleco?

[Foo Hong]

How much is the Zebra pleco?

[Ong Ginyew]

ranging from 30-50 bucks i think... or more than 50...
depends on where u buy em... and sizes count too.
muz go down stairs and check...keke

[Ong Ginyew]

ranging from 30-50 bucks i think... or more than 50...
depends on where u buy em... and sizes count too.
muz go down stairs and check...keke

[Samuel Phan]

Can get them from Gan Aquarium. About $50 for a juvenile.

[Samuel Phan]

Can get them from Gan Aquarium. About $50 for a juvenile.

[benjamin wong]

i looking for the albino armour zombie
gan dont carry.

[benjamin wong]

i looking for the albino armour zombie
gan dont carry.

[kennho]

quote:Originally posted by Ong Ginyew

corys live in soft water rite?


Most corydoras stay in soft water. I have a video showing cory natural environment which is highly oxygenated and very clean. Guess where in Amazon has such environment .... white water. Yup, they stay under rocky river bank where high water flow. I still got 2 leopard corys in my tank. They are 4 years old liao. lovely small creature.

But I am keeping them in hardwater.

[kennho]

quote:Originally posted by Ong Ginyew

corys live in soft water rite?


Most corydoras stay in soft water. I have a video showing cory natural environment which is highly oxygenated and very clean. Guess where in Amazon has such environment .... white water. Yup, they stay under rocky river bank where high water flow. I still got 2 leopard corys in my tank. They are 4 years old liao. lovely small creature.

But I am keeping them in hardwater.

[Ong Ginyew]

wats the ph that you r keeping them in Kenn?

[Ong Ginyew]

wats the ph that you r keeping them in Kenn?

[kennho]

ph 8.2 kh 4.0 but they are from my planted tank once but after i dismantled the tank, they are slowly conditioned to such water. So best dun just dump in cory at such drastic change.

[kennho]

ph 8.2 kh 4.0 but they are from my planted tank once but after i dismantled the tank, they are slowly conditioned to such water. So best dun just dump in cory at such drastic change.

[Ong Ginyew]

so what would you recommend.... ph 6.5 or lesser?

[Ong Ginyew]

so what would you recommend.... ph 6.5 or lesser?

[kennho]

For any freshwater fish, it's best to keep between 6.5 to 8.5 level for some reasons. Never go below 6.0 for a filtered tank setup and above 8.5 is a not recommended ( tough to maintain ). Better not go into so detail.

Just provide large water vol, good hidding place and clean water for corydoras. If I not wrong, some pleco are hardwater fish and the price for these pleco is much higher than those softwater types. Tio bo har ?

[kennho]

For any freshwater fish, it's best to keep between 6.5 to 8.5 level for some reasons. Never go below 6.0 for a filtered tank setup and above 8.5 is a not recommended ( tough to maintain ). Better not go into so detail.

Just provide large water vol, good hidding place and clean water for corydoras. If I not wrong, some pleco are hardwater fish and the price for these pleco is much higher than those softwater types. Tio bo har ?

[Ong Ginyew]

dunno leh, i think so... but whih type of plecos live in softwater and which type live in hardwater? but i thought plecos are softwater fishes? anyway went to check d price out for plecos... d poker dots one and brown coloured ones r all at 45 bucks.

[Ong Ginyew]

dunno leh, i think so... but whih type of plecos live in softwater and which type live in hardwater? but i thought plecos are softwater fishes? anyway went to check d price out for plecos... d poker dots one and brown coloured ones r all at 45 bucks.

[Jonathan_Tan]

now got alot of lfs sellin many diff types of plecos...

Wats yur fav types of pleco and catfish respectively?

mine is zebra plec and bristlenose pleco... catfish is pygmy cory and tiger shovelnoses

[Jonathan_Tan]

now got alot of lfs sellin many diff types of plecos...

Wats yur fav types of pleco and catfish respectively?

mine is zebra plec and bristlenose pleco... catfish is pygmy cory and tiger shovelnoses

[Ong Ginyew]

me 2... i like zebra pleco.....corys will b blue cory and the other one with poker dots.

[Ong Ginyew]

me 2... i like zebra pleco.....corys will b blue cory and the other one with poker dots.

[Ong Ginyew]

bought 2 poker dots cory on Saturday and one died yesterday...
no signs of sickness or watsoever.... added peat moss into filter... any idea?

[Ong Ginyew]

bought 2 poker dots cory on Saturday and one died yesterday...
no signs of sickness or watsoever.... added peat moss into filter... any idea?

[Jonathan_Tan]

sometimes i also have cories dyin 4 no apparent reason...
think its the sudden change of environment...
find that they're rather delicate when it comes to environmental shocks

[Dr Hsu]

Sigh...one of my bristle nose plecos found dead this am.....:(

Just saw it yesterday and looked fine....maybe my hungry fries decided to hassle it too much (didn't feed them much yesterday).

Well, it's back to Gan Aquarium next week......says he has a bunch of plecos coming in next week!

[Jonathan_Tan]

u put plecos with yur betta fries?

[Dr Hsu]

Yes, there to clear up algae....

[Ong Ginyew]

wun d plecos eat up ur fries?

[Dr Hsu]

No, these are vegetarian for the most part. With lots of algae and plants, they will be pretty happy. If they do eat "meat" then they will just take up the left overs, if any!

[Ong Ginyew]

how many plecos do u have in tat tank?

[Jonathan_Tan]

i onli like those small type plecos...size abt 9-15cm...
any bigger quite ugly...

[Ong Ginyew]

ive seen those common big plecos in farm b4...living in such stuffy place and veri veri large in size.....

[Dr Hsu]

I only had 1 in the tank. Quite nice bristlenose with the fine shiny spots. Saw it the day before it died and looked real nice...

The common plecos are ugly, but the nice ones are really beautiful, even when large

[Ong Ginyew]

usually what is d max size those common plecos can grow?

[Jonathan_Tan]

normail ones can grow to 50cm++ max...common size is 40+cm...

[Ong Ginyew]

cool, i think tats bigger than a Luo Han....

[Jonathan_Tan]

longer...not bigger...

[Ong Ginyew]

how do u differentiate d sex of plecos... but looking at their Dorsal fin?

[Jonathan_Tan]

i also dunno..anyone can help on this?

[denethor]

need help here, do corydoras need an air pump for a 1 gallon tank?
i had added 2 cory with aquatic plant in it...do i still need to get an air pump?

[Kelvin Tan]

is this bristle nose pleco? whats its market price?

http://www.arofanatics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133980&highlight=bushy+nose

[imported_n/a]

quote:Originally posted by denethor

need help here, do corydoras need an air pump for a 1 gallon tank?
i had added 2 cory with aquatic plant in it...do i still need to get an air pump?


Corydoras would definitely do well in a well oxygenated tank.

Depending on the types of Corydoras specie, a 1 gallon may be too small unless we are talking of the dwarf, such as C. pymaeus, C. hastatus, C. habrosus.

Just to clear some probable misconceptions, fishes from South America hails from rivers of very varied water parameters, black water (lowest pH even to pH of 2-3 in Rio Negro), clear water and white water (highest pH).

For plecos and corydoras, it would be good to QT the fish upon purchase as these armoured catfish would carry lots of bacteria, parasites. When stress, such bacteria/parasites would attack the fish resulting in casualties.

One thing to note: some of these fishes are rather sensitive to salt, so do add them carefully. A medication good for relieving the stress of these fishes would be waterlife myazin.