Recent content by Stuart

Hi there - a buddy of mine has just started up a mini-reef tank and has found an uninvited guest. Presumably from his Java Live Rock. Of course, the question is - is it friendly or does it need removing post haste?

The only fish I have ever come acorss that eats hair algae is the Rainbow cichlid, herotilapia multispinosa.

Great news :D Hope you get the pics up! :fadein:

I never noticed :( Unfortunately you are not the first site to be targetted like this. Someone has been through quite a few sites (some of hwich I am a member of) and done the same. Shame on them - they should be named and shamed.

I would think it was that they didn't have any hidey holes. Do you have plenty of rocks/caves/tubes for them to hide in?

There doesn't seem to be any pair bonds with mine. The young juveniles do guard the younger fry though - very courageous they are too when facing off with 5 inches of N.livingstoni :)

I have been caught with the two females thing once or twice. They seem to have this sympathy thing going :( Best of luck!

IME it doesn't take much to get Brichardi to breed :) I seem to have 1 male and 4 females and he keep them all with broods :D

They're pricey - £12-£14 hereabouts - thats about $20 each.

Might be worth looking up chordates like salps - they have a similar configuration - just never seen them in aquaria - just under a microscope :)

Sounds like a butterfly plec - but I couldn't find any images online :( Is he almost violin shape?

For ease of breeding I'd go for bronzes - other corys are easy to spawn but hard to rear the fry. Pygmy corys are smallest I think :)

He looks stunning - thanks for sharing your pics :)

My firemouths were relatively accommodating to any tank mates until they spawned. Then they guarded their territory - but only chased fish that didn't give them room, and not to any sort of length. I'd suggest large tetras or schooling fish like the barbs. Don't try little tetras (mine...

Those two stars wont mate. Sounds like you do have lots of little starts (I have a few, mine are white). Mine piggy-backed in on my live rock, don't know where your's are from.