Hi guys,

If you are so worried about intestinal blockages you should do a salt treatment for your fish every 3 months. Its just like deworming your pet cats n dogs.
I use it on most of my catfish even discus and they seem to have no problems. I use it as a short term bath so i use 30grams to ...

Livebearers are VERY easy to breed, they would breed even if there was a nucleor winter outside and living in a shark infested tank- you realy don't have to do a thing to make them breed apart from put 2-3females with a male. As to livebearers, the main important thing with them is to make sure they ...

Ok i will have a go at breeding bristlenoses, i'll keep the chocolate and other L number plecs in the main tank though until i am ready to breed them though .

It would be an interesting project though to begin with though if it has not realy been attempted. The only fish that will be in the tank that will be any to threat and are known to eat fry are the khuli loachs and neons, but even so they are only capable of eating newly born livebearer sized fry ...

Thanks for the info, has anyone bred chocolate zebras in a community tank before? I just want to know if its posible?

46 people looked at this thread and no one knows...?

What is considered too high a TDS reading for spawning chocolate zebra plecs? Do TDS requirement levels for spawning vary alot from plec tp plec? I did think though TDS had somthing to do with ph though although have i misread somthing somwhere? Sorry for all the questions!

ps: the new tank will be ...

Thanks for all the welcomes

Oh! i've just been reading through some posts, RO water does not sound very nesarsary to plec breeding, no? Which are harder to breed/more needy on water params- chocolate zebra plecs or zebra plecs?

Hello there, im very new here but i have been keeping fish for 2yrs and a bit and i have a 10gal, 30gal and 50gal and a 5gal betta tank which i forgot to mention earlier when i introduced myself in the newb section. Im in the process of getting a new house and a new tank, 345gals, and i would like ...

smithrc wrote:what - no mention of who refered you.

Hi smirthrc, whoops sorry i forgot to mention you- good to see you are here .
Thanks for the welcome too

Hi there :) .
I guess this is the right place to introduce myself?
Suppose i should do a little intro on me;

I am 20yrs old female and i live in England, i have been keeping fish for 2yrs and a bit now and have a 10gal, 30gal and 50gal tanks and i am hopefully getting a 345gal in a month or so, i ...