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Good ideas. It is a lone GT with an albino pleco of some sort about 5 inches long. 46 gallon bow front. The GT hides in the cave all day so I was hoping if I got some tankmates it wouldn't be so antisocial. 46 gal may not be big enough tho. I have a longer tank that is 65 that houses 4 very...

What a beautiful fish! Thank you for your time and help. I don't know why it is such a big deal that I know the sex but to me it is like knowing the names of all my hostas in my gardens...... I don't plan on getting another one but I am looking for tank mate ideas. I would like a little added...

Thanks everyone! I was hoping he wouldn't be a monster. I don't really have room for 2 huge fish in this tank but I would be willing to upgrade if I had too. It does a really good job of keeping the tank clean so I hope it can hold its own with my GT.

I have an Albino Plecostomus that was sold to me as a bristlenose so I thought the max length would be 5 inches. When I look at bristlenose pictures elsewhere mine does not look like them. I got it in January and it was about 2 inches. Can someone help me with how big this will get so I can plan...

Was wondering if anyone can help me ID the sex of my green terror. I got in January when it was about an inch long and it is now 4-5 inches.

Thank you She was my first fish and had her since she was 3 months old. https://goo.gl/photos/JoLhNRm55eCpxqAL8 If the link works, this is her today...definitely not good

I currently have a 5 year old female convict cichlid who is dying. she quit eating about a week ago and with the help of my local fish stores I have tried everything to save her but they think she has dropsy. she is nose down and has been for 3 days. she has always been the only one in the tank...

I have a 5 year old female convict cichlid who every few months gets real fat and refuses to eat. She sulks around in her cave and puts her nose to the ground and loses her beautiful orange color. I am afraid to put a male in the tank with her first of all because I don't want 50 babies and...

As many as she can track down. ;-)

sorry swifty, I thought you were asking me until I reread...

We feed her one to two hikari carnivore pellets twice a day. If she doesn't want to eat, she will not come out of her cave. Once in a while we give her a mashed pea and about once a week she gets half a cube of blood worms.

I keep trying to talk my husband into letting me get her a boyfriend but he doesn't know what we would do with the babies. Can you spay or neuter fish? :-) Her coloring is beautiful. In the morning we notice a lot of blue. She usually only eats 2 hikari sinking carnivore pellets twice a day and...

These are better pictures of her year b-day? Didn't realize how bad that other one came out.

The top picture is when we got her last July and the second picture was taken last week when she was digging a nest for her eggs. We love our McKayla.

I bought a bag of frozen peas and just take out a couple of peas a day and set them on the counter for a few min, then peal the shells off and split in about 4 pieces and drop in the tank. I don't ever cook. I figured in the wild no one cooks for them and boiling destroys the nutrients so raw it...

I was having the same issue with my pooping machines (catfish). I took the 2 inch diameter tube off the end of the syphon and bought a Christmas tree adapter and some 1/2 inch diameter refrigerator line tubing because it is more stiff and cut to length for the depth of my tank. Works great to...

How in the world does anyone keep anything with pictus? My pictus are respectfully named Richard Ramirez, ed gein, Jeffrey dahmer, and andre chikatilo because they have boisterously tortured to death 2 molly's, 2 mystery snails and just last night a bn pleco! I can't get anything to survive the...

I have been "playing" with my female convict this morning and notice that she picks at the film on the airline tubing in her tank. I assume it is algae of some sort and wondered if I should be giving her algae wafers or peas or something to supplement her boring hikari pellet diet. By playing...

I did not splice the python. I am right now using an aqueon siphon with the bulb pump and removed the large diameter tube and replaced with my refrigerator tubing. I am emptying into buckets right now so I can use on my rosebushes(they look awesome) This winter I may see if I can adapt my...

I too have been dealing with this issue. For the summer I have been draining mine into buckets to use on my plants outside because we are on water restrictions. Point is though, whether I use the python or hand pump siphon, I cannot pick up the waste properly. So this weekend I made a little...

Well, one of them has definitely disappeared. I have an empty gold shell and can't find anywhere in the tank! I think my pictus had themselves a little snack.

That is hilarious! But very good to know. I guess I assumed they were just out and active all the time. Do they sleep?

I am just going to leave them be til I get home tonight. I don't want to accidentally kill one of them just because of my lack of experience. Thanks for the help and I will let you know when I get home. And in the mean time we are re-naming the pictus after serial killers...

Well, my life with snails may be cut a little short... The black shell is at the bottom but I don't see anything in it and the yellow one isn't moving. I thought maybe the shells would be enough protection against the pictus cats but apparently not. I think these cats become murderers after...

Also, how do I know if I need a source of calcium for the shells and what do I use?