One of the advantages for me from working with zebras was that they became a springboard for getting new species. I was ablle over time to parlay my good luck with spawning things to allow me to acquire a group of wild P. compta, then a group of L173b from Glase in germany. This then became a group ...

Good luck with your new Hypancistrus. Both of them like similar conditions and will do best in a species tank.

Neither of those supplements contains the proper bacteria. Use either Dr. Tim's One and Only of Tetra Safe Start. Dr. Tim also sells ammonium chloride for cycling. I use both of his cycling products. Stability contains spores and the nitrifying bacteria do not form spores. Neither of them contain th...

i am not updating this thread as I decided to do it on Planetcatfish.com. If interested, you can follow it here https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/vie ... 52#p319563

I think this is the proper place for this thread. Here is the immediate plan. 1. I am behind on regular maint. and water changes. So I need to get caught up. 2. I would like to get usable pictures of the current set-ups and post them in this thread. 3. I have two short term projects. One is to conve...

Welcome to the site and to the wonderful world of zebra. Bear in mind that there are different ways to work with zebras. In the end we all have to learn what works best in our tank(s). Anything below which says how I do it should be seen as my way but not the only way nor even the best way. A few ge...

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Welcome the site and to the wonderful world of zebras.

Welcome back to the world of zebras. I have never found it easy to sex zebras by body characteristics. I can vent them and that is more reliable, but they need to be as large as the ones you mention. I often find at that size and in the right tnak set-up, I can sex them based on their behavior. Of c...

Folks will react differently here and can give varying advice. I would never buy a pleco hybrid knowingly unless it was a single fish and was never going to be bred. I am not in favor of hybrids at all. Since you provided no location information I cannot comment on pricing. But, in the states those,...

The information provided should include the inhabitants of the tank. That said there are a couple of things that could be at work. If a female fish it may be full of eggs and ready to spawn. Or it could be full of eggs and egg bound. I can also be constipation. If the fish isn't pooping, it will swe...

It was an OK site, but Planetcatfish.com has even better information as should scotcat.com. What makes any site durable is not its content but its active membership. It takes a decent number of members to keep a site afloat. This is complicated by the fact the sites above are basically not for profi...

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The 173 is not the same as a zebra. they differ significantly in a number of ways. 1. 173 get larger than zebras. 2, Zebras pretty much look like zebras from the time they go fee swimming to the time they die. 173 tends to go through different appearances over time. As it approaches sexual maturity ...

Sorry, for the slow reply. Almost all plecos get caught in nets. It's their odontile growth that gets caught. I use a brine shrimp net for fish that fit, it has a finer mesh cloth than standard nets. I doubt bn would explore nets unless algae is on them. You can also try floating plants, Especially ...