Pics And Info On My Cichlids. Picture Heavy
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Don't get me wrong i have a few huge fish that are mean and i love em i just don't have enough room for more mean fish..
Yeah you are a little too far for me to hear you all the way over here in KY but i have been known to yell loud..
Yeah you are a little too far for me to hear you all the way over here in KY but i have been known to yell loud..
GuppyGirl1230
Snails, Guppies and Corys, OH MY!!!
Ok I was asked several years back on this forum or another forum what was my big interest in the Glyptoperichthys family of the pleco world. Now known as Pterygoplichthys they are still my favorite family of the loricariidae. One I always wanted was Pterygoplichthys scrophus but have always been hard to find. I think since there not colorful like some other pleco's there not desired and for that reason are not farmed and not really imported.
Luckily I was able to obtain 2 of them which were wild caught. There are two pics that I saw that made me absolutely love and want a Rhino Pleco. They are here at this site http://www.fishbase.de/photos/thumbnailssummary.php?ID=53568. Most would not care to own one. They cant be bred in the home aquaria but I dont care there nice to watch.
This family has several other pleco's I like. My favorite being the gibbiceps and then joselimaianus followed by scrophus then pardalis. There are others I like but are way harder to obtain. The size (I dont mean length but girth) of them and the broad heads but gentle nature (except to there own kind) has drawn me to them. They just appeal to me.
I remember my mom use to feel sorry for "algea eaters" as there refered to out here. She always felt bad though cuz these pleco's were always kept with mean cichlids and had fins torn and missing in some cases. I think thats were my interest in them was sparked. That was about 20yrs ago.
I have since then done lots of reading on this family and now find it rather easy to identify any member of this family were it seems others still struggle a bit. I know they arent colorful and require big tanks but this has been and propably always will be my favorite family of the loricariidae's.
Just a lil peak inside my mind and how I feel bout pleco's.
Luckily I was able to obtain 2 of them which were wild caught. There are two pics that I saw that made me absolutely love and want a Rhino Pleco. They are here at this site http://www.fishbase.de/photos/thumbnailssummary.php?ID=53568. Most would not care to own one. They cant be bred in the home aquaria but I dont care there nice to watch.
This family has several other pleco's I like. My favorite being the gibbiceps and then joselimaianus followed by scrophus then pardalis. There are others I like but are way harder to obtain. The size (I dont mean length but girth) of them and the broad heads but gentle nature (except to there own kind) has drawn me to them. They just appeal to me.
I remember my mom use to feel sorry for "algea eaters" as there refered to out here. She always felt bad though cuz these pleco's were always kept with mean cichlids and had fins torn and missing in some cases. I think thats were my interest in them was sparked. That was about 20yrs ago.
I have since then done lots of reading on this family and now find it rather easy to identify any member of this family were it seems others still struggle a bit. I know they arent colorful and require big tanks but this has been and propably always will be my favorite family of the loricariidae's.
Just a lil peak inside my mind and how I feel bout pleco's.
Yeah I know what you meant. lol and I have been told by almost everyone that im to loud. Im loud and to add insult to injury my voice carrys lol.
Thanks I really appreciate your comment and everyone elses comments bout my fish.
Well sadly I had another loss but not the baby JD's or Baby L-144's but my adult long finned L-144 male. I believe the cause was aggression. Ive noticed the short finned chasing him from time to time but nothing major. He was nice and healthy 2days ago just had a torn tail. Now I find him dead. He was by no means under weight. So now I got 1 male and 2 females. I yi yi. These pleco's are proving more difficult then I imagined they would be.
Jack dempsey adults are still in the healing process. Female looks pretty messed up even after how much she has healed already. I believe its stressed her alot cuz the fry are disapearing fast and no dead bodies are to be found. I only got a few left maybe like 10 which Im thinking of fishing out and putting with there bigger siblings.
As for the 2 baby JD's one is growing faster then the other now. Im wondering why but there is no way for me to find out.
Jack dempsey adults are still in the healing process. Female looks pretty messed up even after how much she has healed already. I believe its stressed her alot cuz the fry are disapearing fast and no dead bodies are to be found. I only got a few left maybe like 10 which Im thinking of fishing out and putting with there bigger siblings.
As for the 2 baby JD's one is growing faster then the other now. Im wondering why but there is no way for me to find out.
Care to share a pic or two of them??? Ive noticed pictures of Rhino Pleco's are very few in number on the net. I wonder why...
