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Yeah that is an albino ancistrus. Got 4 of them (2 in each big tank) to replace the SAE that are getting big. I just have to catch them some time later. I don't think BBA would come back, if it does, it would have to be in the Congo tank. That is almost all wood and that cleans up easily...

Here are some new pics. Most tetras have been given away, so the tanks with the Bolivian rams have been stocked up with little rasboras and microrasboras. Cherry shrimps also thrive in there. The tank with the congo tetras and thomasi cichlids has 2 new males. Read something about the...

Thanks. After a check at my store's inventory, I think the plants in the first 3 pics of post 17 are some kind of echinodorus.

I think they were all sold to me as balansae. My plant knowledge is severely deficient. Here is some more plant pics. Fist 3 pics are of the same plant type in various stages of recovery. (I was really bad with live plants until Flourish Excel and jobes came into the picture) Those are...

PH 7.6 High PH 7.8 I don't mess with the water. Rarely bother with testing. You made me dust off the test kit.

As long as these are buried, these guys do an awesome job. Roots cling to them. The big plus is the fact it's dirt cheap.

Thanks. I built the tanks so slowly I did not realize how similar they turned out. I like the new looks. I believe they were all sold to me as balansae, but I believe only the long thin ones are that. There is a smaller purplier one and a couple of new ones that could end up twisted a bit...

So I rearranged the wood. In the thomasi tank, I have cryptos, 2 giant anubias and some hygropilia that gets nibbled on quite a bit. In the ram tank, I just spread the moss around and moved out the balansae crypt to the other tank, receiving what I think is Amazon swords that are getting...

Well I'll be damned. They did look alike. Well I had some procrastination to do today and I decided to do something about it.

My crew is otos (4 and 6), yamatos (5 and 8), SAE (4 small to juveniles) and one bulldog pleco. That is my crew in two 55 gal. Works with mates as small as boraras and as big as Congo tetras, and it handles small cichlids too. I'd have nerites in there but I don't trust cichlids with them...

Thanks. I agree the tanks look similar. Hard to notice, but the hygrophilias are not the same and one tank has moss and not the other. The goal is to eventually put all the granite stones in the rams tank and get some more of the nice looking layered rocks for the thomasi. That would be fine...

It's been a long time coming, but after years of experimentation and learning the hard way, I have finally achieved 3 rather good set-ups. I like my tanks full and lively and I was never gonna spend a lot on lights. Here is what they look like The first one is a 55 gal. It is home to...

I did not know when I signed for this site that it was dead and that I would not get insightful input. So I would like to delete this thread and its pictures. Many thanks.

Well, here is my little set-up. They just had dinner, and the lifalilis are swimming little pigs... The last pic is from the first spawning. That plant at the left has been eaten. So far, they ate the straight vallisneria but left the giant variety almost alone, and they did not touche...

I'm working on that. The cloud of fry vanished in 3-4 days. Perhaps eaten. I did not feed the fry anything special: there is a sponge prefilter on the filter intake and Java moss in there, so I assumed that it would sustain the little guys until big enough to eat crushed flakes... If this...

So the fully grown Kribs pair was added yesterday. They are much bigger than the lifalilis, but they keep a very low profile. They have set up a little zone for themselves in one corner of the tank. The opposite corner is of course occupied bu the fry and their parents. They do come and...

Wigglers...

No disrespect received. How big is your tank if I may ask? Saved from the last few months, the biggest I had was a 20 gal, so I'm still a little bit uneasy about water quality.

I tried and failed to do the same with the last other fish currently in the tank: the female taeniatus. She is not seen as a major threat: I saw her on a couple of occasions swimming just above the clutch of eggs. The male does chase her away, but I have yet to see any real rough play. She...

Nothing wrong with what you are doing as long as you do it. The bacteria colonies in your filter will develop very small, with very little ammonia in the water, turned into very little nitrites. Those will be your (always very low) normal parameters for your system to be stable. Why could...