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Just thought i would post something a bit different and ask everyone what type of fish they are currently keeping, purely to see what fish are popular amongst you guys. Are you purely catfish? Do you like your preditors? Community all the way? Are tank busters your kind of fish? Or are you zebra through and through?.......

Heres mine to get things started

6 zebra plecos
1 scobiancistrus L14
1 royal panaque
2 tiger oscars
1 ornate birchir
1 pike cichlid
1 red dog characin
1 ghost knife
2 humphead geophegus
1 banded leprionis
2 checkerboard discus
1 purivian wolf fish
2 hoplo catfish
5 flag fish
10 black neons

I haven't done this in ages and be forewarned, overstocking ahead:

5.5 gal- 2 A. Australe killie, plants
10 gal- pair of betta imbellis- a bunch of bn fry and dad, plants
10 gal- about 16 zebras growing out, some plants.
10 gal- empty, cycled, planted for Q pending new fish ordered (galaxys and panda corys), plants.
15 gal- 10 sterbai cory, plants.
15 gal- bn pair and way too many bn fry, plants.
15 gal- about 25-30 zeb fry growing out, plants.
20 gal L- about 18 danios- choprae and roseus, fm klf bn, 10 similis cory.
20 gal L- Fm alf bn, 7 sidthimunki loaches, breeding colony of blue/green montezuma swords, a few lf bn juvies.
25 gal- 2 adult zebs, 1 male discus getting gf on monday.
30 gal B- 11 zebras a spawning and about 50 assorted fry.
40 gal- About 15 juvie bn growing, about 20 bn fry, 1 threadfin bow and 1 male discus getting gf monday, plants.
45 gal- pair of dd black angels, 2 torpedo barbs, an SAE, retired pair of lf bn, 1 insane and uncatchable clown loach, 1 cardinal tetra, colony of mottled ivory montezuma swords, a few lf bn juvies, plants.
50 gal- High tech planted tank w/ co2, 5 rasboras (harlequin and brilliant), 1 panda cory, 4 sterbai cory, 3 paleatus cory, 3 farlowella, 1 whiptail cat, 1 SAE.
75 gal- 6 clown loach- (4 to almost 7 inches), 6 SAE, 10 cadrinal tetras, plants.


I am a horrid photographer, but if you really want to see some of my tanks and fish you can do so at:
http://home.att.net/~c.leighton/wsb/htm ... html-.html
and
http://home.att.net/~twotankamin/wsb/ht ... html-.html

here it goes.

Pleco's:

6 zebra pleco's L-046
1 titanic pleco L-273
2 x L316 Jari Zebras - sold as 316's not really sure what they are..!
1 x L190

Others:

5 x corydoras weitzmani's
10 x microrasbora galaxy's
4 x rocket killifish
various shrimp & types
6 x synodontis petricola
16 cardinal tetra

Cool!

2.5g- planted with 30+ Red Cherry Shrimp and 10 Boraras Merah(soon to be moved into a ~7g ADA planted tank.
10g 5 L.Multifasciatus and tons of fry
20g long- 5 zebra plecos soon to add at least 5 more and one amano shrimp
30g long- high maintenance planted 4Gold Apisto.Cacatuoides triple red, 3 sidthimunki, 19 gold white clouds, 5 otocinclus niger and 15 amano shrimp
125g- 39 Tropheus Moorii Ilangi
135g- 12 Frontosa Moba, 2 calvus(1yellow 1congo), 2 Juli.Marileria, 1 Inspector pleco


Soon to add.....

125g 40-50 Tropheus Brichardi Uwile
~7g High tech ADA planted 10 Boraras Merah
Also want to try and breed Galaxy Microrasboras or Now named Celestial Danios


ETA: I added 8 Celestial danios to the 30g along with 4 Neocaridina sp. "blue" shrimp.

L46 21 Wild Caught

4 Groups of 5 L46 F1's obtained from different sources.

50 or so L46 fry 0.5" to 2.5" which I am growing out.

LDA08 x 8

L89 x4

L134 X3

L201 x 6

L255 X 4

L333 x 16

L400 x 16

Albino BN's x 4

Brown BN's x 4

Galaxy Rasboras ( Now got a new name) x 150

Tropheus Moori Chipimbi X 30

Cyprichomis Leptosoma Chaitika Blue Flash x 10

Synondontis Petricola x 6

These African Fish are now sold just waiting for collection.

5 Leopard Mosaic Discus.

Approx 100 tetras, Cardinals, Rummy Nose, Purple and Phantom.

Take care

Dave

Wow thats a fantastic collection of L46's dave!

Very impressive Dave!!!

150 Galaxy microrasboras/ Celestial Danios nice! I just picked up 5 today.

My fish are:

18x L46 adult + fry
9x L66
5x L144
9x L201
10x L333
5x L400

Going to be a long list, but here goes:

5 1/2g, week old angel fry and 6 small BN

10g, trio of albino BN

40g, 5 young disucs and 3 BN

20g, pair of apisto C's, male blue ram and 1 male angel

4x10g, assorted BN (long fin albino, long fin goldspot and gold spot) fry
10g, long fin gold spot trio (yet to spawn)

10g, apisto C pair

2x 30g BN grow out juvies with albino, long fin albino, gold spot and long fin goldspot fry and some assorted guppies in the tanks.

65g, 3 adult angels, BN breeders, growing out apistos and blue rams

35g, pair of angels, Long fina albino BN breeders

30g, gold spot BN breeders 20 angels growing out


I think that is all Yes as you can tell I breed 4 types of BN plecos as well as angels, blue rams and apisto C's.

no zebra plecos here, but I love them.

looks like you all ahve a very impressive selection of fish there

5 - Pseudeutropius Brachypopterus.
1 - L260 Queen Arabesque
8 - L46 Hypancistrus Zebra Adult
1 - L25 Pseudacanthicus sp.
1 - L273 Pseudacanthicus sp
1 - L253 Scobinancistrus sp.
1 - L200 Green Phantom
1 - L075 Peckolitia
1 - Black Ghost Knife Fish
3 - Banjo Catfish
1 - Tyre Track Eel
1 - Twig catfish
1 - Synodontis Brichardi
1 - L191 Royal Plec
1 - L27c Panaque nigrolineatus

and around 50-60 L46 fry being grown out.

8-L46 2.5-3 inch
4-ABN breeders(1M3F)
?-ABN fry
6-Leopard Snakeskin Discus
6-Red Spotted Leopard Discus
6-White Butterfly Discus

I do my best....seriously....I really don't know the exactly number on what I have....
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8 L46
20 BN LF & ABN LF
40+ Dwarf Cichlids (3 kinds)
10 Snow White Crayfish
1 L155
1 L183
1 L270
1 L15
1 L104
1 L270
1 L18
1 LDA25
1 L122
16 Cory Sterbai
8 Cory Bronze
8 Cory Albino Bronze
2 Cory Adolfi
6 Cory XXX (I don't know the name...)
50+ Cory Fry
25 DD Black Angel
800+ Fancy Guppy & Endler (10 Strains)
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4 75G (will be 8 soon...)
27 5.5G
200 10G(reducing...half of them is empty now...no time...)
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Basically....this is it....

I like this thread!

2.5 gallon "Quarantine Tank"
- 1 female betta
10 gallon "Zebra Tank" (transitioning to 20 gallon long)
- 7 x L046 (all juveniles)
- 2 otos
- lots of cherry shrimp (which I am trying to gracefully remove)
- 1 amaon shrimp
- 3 nerite snails
- mild pond snail infestation
34 gallon "Planted Tank"
- 2 Apistogramma MacMasterii (male/female)
- 2 Bolivian Rams (male/female)
- 2 German Blue Rams (male/female)
- 1 regular/plain pleco
- 1 catfish yet to be identified
- lots of nerites (approximately 8-12)
- lots of amano shrimp (approximately 5-7)

...and my wife thinks I have lots of tanks! I'm going to show her this thread so she can see how many you guys have!!!

Ok, here is mine:

2 x L7
4 x L14
12 x 18/L81/L177 (got all three variations).
4 x L25
4 Ancistrus Tamboensis
3 Ancistrus sp. 4
21x L46
5 x L47 + colony
4 x L75
2 x L76,
2 x L82
2 Gibbies Joselimaianus
2 Gibbies Pterygoplichthys
3 Pterygoplichthys Albino
5 Acanthicus Adonis
2 Acanthicus Adonis Albino
4 x L114
10 x L128
12 x L134
4 x L137
8 x L144
3 x L147
2 x L155
6 x L160
6 x L174
7 x L183
5 x L190
10 x L200
8 x L204
1 x L236
8 x L239
5 x L240
2 x L260 + (4 of their blotchy look alikes ...)
8 x L262
7 x L263
10 x L264
6 x L272 (or whatever they call these days the Pineapple pleco - I am sick and tired of taxonomy!!!)
11 x L273
3 x L282
10 x L333
3 x L368
8 x LDA31
6 LDA33
4 x Chaetostoma Sovicthys
1 Ptychochromis Insolitus
9 Torpedo Barbs
4 Heros Efasciatus
7 Thorichthys meeki
2 Paratheraps Fenestratus (and some 12 of their babies I still have here growing out)
4 Hemichromis gutatus (and millions of fry, they just spawned)
1 P. Managuensis
4 P. Dovii
2 Pseudorinolepis Genibarbis (one on its way in reality)
8 P. Andapa
... and I think that's just about it