Hi from somerset,uk

Hi guys


ive been keeping fish now for a lil under 2 years little did i realise at the time how much it was gonna take over my life ive become obsessed lol
i started off with 1 community tank (or so i thought turns out most of the fish id bought were wrong and i was given all the wrong advice) grr at unethical greedy lfs exploting my newbiness anyway i have now 5 happy healthy tanks
all bar one of said tanks has bristlenose in it (its a convict tank housing a breeding pair and anything i put in with them they kill) so basically i have altogether 7 bristlnose plus 5 synos corys and a sailfin plec as well as the rest of the fish obviously
i recently had sucess with breeding my common ancistrus bristlies (or at least thats whom im assuming the parents are)
theyre a little over a week old now and theyre thriving soooo cute im gonna have to keep some of them no 2 ways about it theyre not all going to the lfs lol (not the same lfs as above i now have a very good ethical friendly helpfull lfs who back me up and are always eager to help when im outta my depth)
so anyways thanks for having me on your forum and i look forward to chatting to you all

Paul

p.s link to album full of random plec syno and bristlie pics just in case u fancied a nosey .. https://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l222/paulie78/Catfish%20Plecs%20and%20Bristlies/

Great to have you hear Paulie..
Some good pics also mate, we also have a gallery here you can upload pics to....

Thanks mate ooh a gallery awesome watch me fill it lmao

Hi Paul,
Welcome to the forum,
lfs thats globally typical, greedy buggas most of them...
Lovely photos, I see a Blue ram in there...One of my favs.

Welcome Paulie!! Great pics!

What is pic #2?

Be sure you look into our contest area and enter some of your pics!! BN pics, aquarium pics, freshies pics, and plec pics.

Thanks for the warm welcome guys erm picture two is i believe my feather fin catfish (Synodontis eruptus) i have 3 of theese and that ones actually my smallest lol my biggest is a beast!! ill try and get some pics asap i will definately enter some competitions lol thatd be cool

Looks like a cory. Beautiful fish!!

Browse around the site..if you haven't already please look at the rules we have going...they are simple and self explanitory. We welcome your input! We have a great bunch of people from all over on here!!

Hi paulie78 and welcome . We have a lot of new members recently.

p.s Great Pics .

hey mate, welcome!

Love the featherfin! I have one myself and its the biggest love hate relationship ever. he is the biggest personality in the tank but he loves to rip up my plants and generally buldoze the entire aquascape.

Thanks again guys for the awesomely friednly welcome so cool to find some like minded bristlnose fanatics id really like to get some diffrent types im hoping if i can sell some of my fry (maidenhead aqautics here said theyll take them) ill have a few pennys to spend..erm i mean invest lol in some cool new plecs
i have a good 150 convict cichlids to get rid off too if anyone wants any also an abundance of mts lol just rescaped the livebearer tank tonight and im now certain theese lil guys are planning some sort of mass rebellion! cause theres entire armys of em!

Doug i totally agree about the love hate relationship with the featherfins lol theyre absolutely beautifull to look at but theyre the bulldozers of the tank lol ive given up with plants now!!
also my biggest balboa helped himself to half a dozen rummynose and several platys before i worked out where all my fish were disapearing too!!
when i asked in my lfs if i needed to add some kind of food supplement to the tank to keep them happy the owner joked that the rummynose were obviously supplement enough according to balboa

p.s ive kinda created an album and uploaded a load of pics but not sure ive done it wrong so apologies to the mods if i did

Found you! Woohoo!

hey mate how cool to find you on here lol

hi and welcome to the forum mate nice pics too

Welcome to Bristlenose World

Thanks guys