Its from fighting vin. Mine get that a lot. Females can fight eachother too. Especially if you have a bunch in a tank I was told it was septacimea I don't think so. At least not my case or half my plecs would be dead. Once I moved out some of the plecs with other groups the fighting stopped and so ...

Its from fighting vin. Mine get that a lot. Females can fight eachother too. Especially if you have a bunch in a tank

Unless you breed the same color morph to eachother, i.e super red X super red, calico x calcico you will get browns. The dominate gene is brown. So if you take a super red and breed it to blue eye albino you will get browns. Crossing a longfin and short fin you will get a mix of both.

Im looking for a calico longfin bn male. If anyone has one please let me know. Can also trade for a male super red.
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Ill take some of those fry off your hands when your ready Dan...

I use sponge filters for my bn pleco tanks

MatsP wrote:And you have, I guess, checked that you have no nitrite or ammonia?

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Yup. All parameters are good. Did a few water changes, always use prime for dechlorinator.

MatsP wrote:Do you know what they were fed on where they came from?

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No I dont. I got them from an online vendor, I tried emailing them about what they were fed but havn't gotten a response.

I got a group of 6 bn longfins about 6 days ago. I put them in my 20 long with a seeded sponge filter. They have not eaten at all for 6 days. They were nice and plump when I got them and they are shriveling up looking very skinny now. I have tried everything, hikari algae wafers, green beans, nls pe...

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