He is looking good, alright

Because he has started eating I will wait at least one week before I take him out to photograph again. I don`t wan`t to stress him to often.

Unfortunately I have been missing some of my external flash connections the last few days, but here is an update from this evening: Uno is kept in a 200 liter with L46 and L240 fry. He already measures 21mm and he is eating. I give him spirulina flakes, crushed peas and earthworm sticks. http://i200...

I use 2x200 liter sumps with lots of HMF driven by Aquamedic 6500 and Aquamedic 3500. I am drawing the system in Google scetchup (my whole fishroom actually). The scetching takes time.

Panorama of the whole tank.... Tip.. These movies can be viewed in high def from my youtube page. [youtube]<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TXyNCwUnq4U&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="al...

L240 eating [youtube]<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CTXV36DbCfM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess...

L024 and L240 eating peas. [youtube]<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/t_1Halvf9j4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="al...

Thanks:) I am only just learning to use the camera, so the quality of the movies are not great. [youtube]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bjFOdH2m5fQ&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScr...

My first video from my new Canon EOS7D.... [youtube]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/09RxTl3mZ6I&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><par...

The system has to sumps of 200 liters each. The lifting pumps are one Aquamedic 6500lph and one Aquamedic 3500lph. Because I used sand and some rocks from other tanks along with already cycled filtermaterial I put the fish in only hours after filling. One of the sumps has a runoff, so waterchange is...

such a nice picture, well done! the pigmentation is already showing! and those spines behind the head, what in gods name is that? Uno is a lovely little sucker! Thank you :) Since I consider myself to be amongst friends I have stopped cleaning dust and dirt from my pictures. About the spines... I d...

I will definetely change my Aquamedic s600 with an industrial unit when I get the chance. Thanks

Uno:

Thank you:) He is beginning to look like a proper pleco. I don`t want to stress him to much, so I will not photograph him daily (photographing means transfer to phototank and back).

That was how I got my first RO-unit and it still works in Brazil, they are of much higher quality than the ones you find in the aquarium shops and you can chose exactly the conductivity you want to produce in the lower scale or just zero µS if you want to add your own mix of salts. I had no idea th...

A larger RO unit seems to be the way forward. I currently produce only 300 lpd. Also I need to preheat the water a few degrees before it enters my fishroom to prevent condensated water from dripping of the unit and all the lines.

They use calcium carbonate. Around 3000 kgs every 24 hour. The water is delivered to 260 000 people. Every person uses around 430 liters (sounds like a lot. Maybe they have a leakage. Maybe the leakage is me). We therefore have 11180000 liters of water containing 3000 kg of calcium carbonate. That s...

I don`t know why, but I assumed 5 days was a lot. Luckily I didn`t puncture the fry with my knife:) I really appreciate your advice as always :D About my water.. It has high ph, low conductivity, low gh and very low kh. I am told the water company adds something to prevent the metal piping's from co...

Haavard, The fry looks like it has hatched 1-2 days to early but with your care it may survive :) Can they really go 6-7 days before hatching? The eggs were laid Friday Afternoon. I'm sure they will breed again and that time you maybe should concider to leave the eggs with the father at least the f...

claro wrote:Hi Haaward,

i speak Englisch very bad, but for you i found in dictionary a few words: fantastikal, inimitable, frontier, talented, inspired and plecofanatical.
Congratulations!
Milan

Thank you

Anyways... The fish is named Uno. Mazel Tov

What kind of program do u use to draw these? I need to make something similar for my next project.

Nemo is a good one, but I am afraid there are a lot of guppies and goldfish having the name. Anyways... Just out of curiosity what is the meaning of Nemo?

Maybe you are getting closer to the definition of an L250, 236 or such? Are we simply talking about morphs, mutants or hybrids? Maybe a hybrid breeds with a mutant who has a father with a different morph than his mother? Are these fish suckermouths really like guppies? I have seen with my own eyes t...

Thank you Cristoffer Not a Lepo, but a nice species nonetheless

DutchFry wrote:haavard congratulations!! pics look absolutely amazing!

Maybe Rini is a nice name? (Ancistrini ) that name is quite common here in Holland!

Very good suggestion

How about Uno... As The One?

If it survives I will never-ever part with it. If it dies I will bury it along with my two departed cats in the forest nearby.

This is not really what I usually do, but "Name suggestions please" No, I can`t sex the fish

Hypostomus fluviatilis

There is still a long way to go before I can claim to have bred the Opal Pleco, but for now Cheers! :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: The fish got delivered with the aid of a very sharp blade and trembling fingers at 15.35 today. http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa237/HaavardStoere/IMG_7019.jpg ...

Teaser

The space between the egg-shell and the embryo is gone. Not sure what to make of this.

As we don`t know what will happen to the embryo during the night I made a couple of pictures to remember the little fellar by. I cleaned the outside of the egg and let it rest on a small black rock. http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa237/HaavardStoere/Full_6993.jpg http://i200.photobucket.com/albu...

Larrys info is, and has always been precious :thumbsup: He is my number one advisor on this forum. I have probably saved 100s of dollars in fish fry by using earth worm sticks (among other foods). His advice about filtration systems has also led me in the right direction in a significant way. Farid....